Larry Poons (b. 1937) has been a leading figure in American Asbtract painting since the 1960s. Over five decades, Poons continuously pushed the boundaries of painting, creating a diverse body of work. His works featured optical patterns of dots and ellipses on monochromatic backgrounds, created using mathematical principles to plot points on a grid. However, he is most renowned for experimenting with pouring, throwing, and splashing paint onto canvases and incorporating materials like foam, rubber, rope, and typewriter paper into his paintings, creating substantial, three-dimensional works. Poons was born in Tokyo, Japan, but moved to New York in his 20s. He initially studied music at the New England Conservatory of Music before shifting his focus to art and enrolling at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Poons gained recognition in the mid-1960s for his lyrical color paintings, which were first displayed at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He also taught at the Art Students League of New York.

Poons’s paintings are part of the collections of several major institutions, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Tate in London.