
About the Artist
(1937)

A musician before becoming a painter, Larry Poons studied at the New England Conservatory of Music from 1955 to 1957, and was much influenced by the experimental compositions of John Cage. His interest in abstraction, especially the geometric forms of Piet Mondrian led him to painting, and in 1959, he studied at the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts. He resides in New York City and has maintained a studio in Florida.
His work is found in private, corportate, and museum collections around the world, including Art Institute of Chicago; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.; Tate Gallery, London.