Red Green Black Power

Campbell was introduced to abstraction by his teacher, Philadelphia modernist Earl Horter. By the mid-1940s Campbell had begun to make large, nonobjective canvases—paintings with no recognizable subject matter. His focus was shape, line, and color. Here the juxtaposition of red, black, and green creates an optical illusion of depth and spatial recession.

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