Editing Color field (section)

=== Stripes ===

Stripes were one of the most popular vehicles for color used by several different color field painters in a variety of different formats. [[Barnett Newman]], [[Morris Louis]], [[Jack Bush]], [[Gene Davis (painter)|Gene Davis]], [[Kenneth Noland]] and David Simpson, all made important Series' of stripe paintings. Although he did not call them stripes but ''zips'' Barnett Newman's stripes were mostly vertical, of varying widths and sparingly used. In Simpson and Noland's case their stripe paintings were all mostly horizontal, while Gene Davis painted vertical stripe paintings and Morris Louis mostly painted vertical stripe paintings sometimes called ''Pillars''. Jack Bush tended to do both horizontal and vertical stripe paintings as well as angular ones.