THE PAINTINGS FROM THE VINCENT MELZAC COLLECTION EXHIBITED IN THE NEW HEADQUARTERS BUILDING REPRESENT A PERIOD IN AMERICAN ART CENTERED IN WASHINGTON D.C. BETWEEN 1958 TO 1962

Approved for Release: 2021/01/29 C06797574 The paintings from the Vincent Melzac collection exhibited in the New Headquarters Building represent a period in American art centered in Washington D.C. between 1958 to 1962, that has since come to be known as the Washington Color School. As an art style, it was both related to the New York-based Abstract Expressionism, which dominated American modernism throughout much of the 1950s, and was a reaction against it...