Paul Reed

Paul (Allen) Reed (March 28, 1919 – September 26, 2015) was an American artist most associated with the Washington Color School and Color Field Painting.

Biography At the time of his death in 2015, Reed was the last living member of the Washington Color School —an art group that gained national fame in the 1960s. Paul Allen Reed was born in Washington, D.C., in 1919 and attended McKinley High School. who Reed mentored.

Reed's work is in museums across the country, including the National Gallery of Art, Phillips Collection, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, all in D.C.; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Detroit Institute of Art; Madison Museum of Contemporary Art; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Dallas Museum of Art; Greenville County Museum of Art, South Carolina; the High Museum of Art, Atlanta; the Oklahoma City Museum of Art; the Phoenix Art Museum; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Wadsworth Atheneum, in Hartford.

Reed was predeceased by his wife Esther and his two sons Robert Reed and Thomas Reed.

Reed died on September 26, 2015, at the age of 96. He was survived by his daughter, Jean Reed Roberts of Phoenix, Arizona.