About the Author

Katy Siegel is an art historian based in New York. She is the Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw Endowed Chair in Modern American Art at Stony Brook University. Known for his paintings of large, black, stencilled letters on white canvases, Christopher Wool is an American artist whose work spans a wide range of styles. Wool had a retrospective of his work at the Guggenheim Museum, New York, in 2014 that travelled to the Art Institute of Chicago.