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Larry Poons
Larry Poons]], Untitled, ca.1964
Born	1937 Tokyo, Japan
Field	Abstract art
Training	School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Art Students League of New York.

Lawrence Poons (born October 1, 1937), better known as Larry Poons, is an abstract painter who was born in Tokyo, Japan. He studied from 1955 to 1957 at the New England Conservatory of Music, with the intent of becoming a professional musician. In 1959, he enrolled at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and also studied at the Art Students League of New York.

He rose to prominence in the 1960s with paintings of circles and ovals on solid—often brilliantly colored—backgrounds. These paintings conveyed a sense of movement, and were categorized as op art. Although he exhibited with optical artists in 1965, by 1966 he had moved away from the optical art towards looser and more painterly abstract canvases. His work is associated with Op Art, Hard-edge painting, Color Field painting, Lyrical Abstraction and Abstract Expressionism.

He currently resides primarily in New York City, but also maintains a studio in upstate New York.

References

• Griffith, Laura Susan, Larry Poons and the Evolution of Stylistic Diametrics, Cleveland, Ohio, Department of Art History, Case Western Reserve University, 1983.
• Moffett, Kenworth, Larry Poons, Paintings, 1971-1981, Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1981.

External links

• Larry Poons in ArtCyclopedia
• artnet online catalog, retrieved May 9, 2008
• Larry Poons interviewed by Robert Ayers, retrieved February 25, 2009