At the time of his death in 2015, Reed was the last living member of the
Washington Color School—an art group that gained national fame in the 1960s. Paul Allen Reed was born in
Washington, D.C., in 1919 and attended McKinley High School. who Reed mentored. Reed's work is in museums across the country, including the
National Gallery of Art,
Phillips Collection, the
Corcoran Gallery of Art, the
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and the
Smithsonian Museum of American Art, all in D.C.; the
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the
Art Institute of Chicago; the
Detroit Institute of Art;
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art; the
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the
Dallas Museum of Art;
Greenville County Museum of Art, South Carolina; the
High Museum of Art, Atlanta; the
Oklahoma City Museum of Art; the
Phoenix Art Museum; the
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the
Wadsworth Atheneum, in
Hartford. Reed was predeceased by his wife Esther and his two sons Robert Reed and Thomas Reed. Reed died on September 26, 2015, at the age of 96. He was survived by his daughter, Jean Reed Roberts of Phoenix, Arizona. ==References==