The art of William Ingham demonstrates how the modernist tradition,
specifically Abstract Expressionism, has flourished in the Pacific
Northwest. This lavishly illustrated volume brings to a wider audience
the Seattle-born artist's highly gestural and vividly colored abstract
paintings. Exploring gesture, form, scale, color, touch, and texture,
Ingham's paintings are exuberant statements.
Tracing the artist's evolution through detailed analyses of individual
works, distinguished art critic Matthew Kangas builds the case for
Ingham's significance and, in so doing, broadens the literature on
Pacific Northwest art to include nonregional influences on artists of
the area, drawing Northwest art closer to other modernist traditions and
innovations in American art.