Willem de Looper: Paintings 1968-72
Whirlwind tour through the District’s many painting exhibits
February 9, 2012
Mark Jenkins, The Washington Post
"By the late 1960s, he was employing the techniques pioneered by Morris Louis (who died in 1962), using multiple washes of thin acrylic pigment to produce rich tints and billowing forms. Louis called one of his series 'Veils,' and 'Purple Veil' is among the four large de Looper canvases in Hemphill Fine Arts’ 'Paintings 1968-72.'"