Extended Play: A-Side
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art
June 4 - September 27, 2026
HEMPHILL is pleased to share the exhibition, Extended Play: A-Side on view at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art in Madison, Wisconsin featuring artworks by artists of the Washington Color School, including works by Sam Gilliam, Alma Thomas and Paul Reed. The exhibition is on view June 4 - September 27, 2026.
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art
227 State Street
Madison, WI 53703
In the galleries: Posters as a medium for serious but jubilant communication
By Mark Jenkins, The Washington Post, July 9, 2021.
"The title of Hemphill Artworks’ “What’s Going Around: Lou Stovall & the Community Poster” gives the longtime D.C. printmaker top billing. But the show includes pieces by other notables who squeegeed ink across silk-screens at Workshop Inc., the studio Stovall founded in 1968. These include Sam Gilliam, Gene Davis and Paul Reed, as well as Stovall’s frequent collaborator, artist-musician Lloyd McNeill, and his spouse, artist Di Stovall."
Early Alma Thomas and Downing, Mehring, Reed
At Hemphill Fine Arts, a Survey of Washington Color School's Lesser-Known Stars
February 17, 2017
Kriston Capps, Washington City Paper
"It's a Washington Color School resurgence with new exhibitions featuring the work of Thomas Downing, Howard Mehring, Paul Reed, and Alma Thomas."
Early Alma Thomas, and Downing, Mehring, Reed
Enter a universe of dappled color in Howard Mehring show at AU museum
February 9, 2017
Mark Jenkins, The Washington Post
"The Washington Color School is still much discussed in the D.C. art world — some might say too much so — and the artists are enjoying a posthumous commercial boom at galleries here and elsewhere."
Selections from the Dolly Langdon and Aldus H. Chapin Collection
In the Galleries: A Washington Color School reunion
July 12, 2014
Mark Jenkins, The Washington Post
"Made between 1958 and 1986, these 19 works constitute an impressive sampler of Washington color painting, although they include one by an artist who never lived in the District, Karl Stanley Benjamin, and one by a representational artist, Michael Clark (whose 'Lincoln Memorial' features bars of luminous color)."