ward jackson was an american visual artist most closely associated with post painterly abstraction and minimalism. he was born in petersburg, virginia in 1928 and died in manhattan, new york in 2004. he received his bachelor's and mfa from the richmond professional institute of the college of william and mary in 1952 and studied with the painter hans hofmann. his opus is known for its diamond shaped works and his work is held in the permanent collections of the smithsonian american art museum, the whitney museum of american art, and moma, among others.