Sean Scully, “Eleuthera” (2017), oil on aluminum, 85 x 75 inches (all images © Sean Scully, all images courtesy the artist) When I became an art critic in 1981 ...

Sean Scully is an American-Irish artist known for his abstract paintings composed of brushy layers of alternating colored squares or stripes. Though his non-representational works appear to have no ...

In the summer of 1982, Sean Scully spent a month at the Edward Albee Foundation’s Barn in Montauk, N.Y. The then 37-year-old artist, born in Dublin and raised in London, had been living in New York ...

Hyperallergic Members are invited to join us on November 5, 2025, for a virtual conversation between two leading voices in contemporary art. Poet, critic, and curator John Yau will sit down with ...

Prepared on the occasion of the exhibition of the same title, organized by the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia. Sean Scully's large-scale canvases carry on the rich legacy of postwar American ...

Sean Scully is one of those artists who suffers from the good-new-bad-news situation of having an “iconic style.” The upside: His work is instantly identifiable (not to mention highly sought-after).

Sean Scully: The Albee Barn, Montauk is a survey of the artist’s work ranging from 1981 to 2024, exploring his Long Island connection and how a single month spent in Montauk in the summer of 1982 with ...

Houghton Hall in Norfolk has been transformed with Smaller than the Sky, an engaging solo show of 59 monumental sculptures, paintings and works on paper by Irish artist Sean Scully. This is the ...

Sean Scully is an American-Irish artist known for his abstract paintings composed of brushy layers of alternating colored squares or stripes. Though his non-representational works appear to have no ...

Sean & Oisin Scully, "Jack the Wolf" (2015), watercolor, ink and pencil on paper, 22 1/4 x 14 7/8 inches (© Sean Scully, photography Brian Buckley) As parents know, a child’s favorite story often gets ...

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