Miyoko Ito survived an earthquake, incarceration and illness. Her transportive paintings defied ideas about abstract art.

For years after World War II, the type of figurative art that Kinigstein practiced co-existed with abstract expressionism — e.g., the drip paintings of Jackson Pollock or the color field art of ...

You may have seen the photo before. It captures a group of 14 men and one woman clustered together in a sparse room, staring straight at the camera with scowls of varying intensity. The painter ...

Two months before she died, Alma Thomas invited the art critic Eleanor Munro to her red brick house in Washington, D.C.’s Logan Circle neighborhood. It was late 1977, and Munro was conducting research ...

By Charlotte Jansen Reporting from London When the landmark Abstract Expressionism show “The New American Painting” arrived at London’s Tate gallery in 1959, it featured work by 17 artists ...

the New York art scene started coalescing around a group of artists including Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, visionaries who would develop a daring new movement known as abstract ...

Kristen Woollery, a Black woman, is one such artist. Woollery’s unique and breathtaking abstract art pays homage to her Afro-Trinidadian roots and is heavily influenced by her upbringing in ...

They produced what were likely the first abstract paintings in East Tennessee and helped establish modern art in the region. Walter Stevens and Carl Sublett both painted landscapes. Sublett ...

Sam Gilliam, a Washington artist who helped redefine abstract painting by liberating canvas from its traditional framework and shaking it loose in lavish, paint-spattered folds cascading from ...

Last year, corporate giants commissioned her to produce three large-scale pieces for the interiors of the newly opened Moxy ...

Two paintings stolen from the Healing Center on St. Claude Avenue have been returned. Artist Carrie Beene said she’s ...

hinting that the museum would buy a major work by an African American artist. Without naming Delaney, he said the work would be displayed in the museum’s East Wing gallery focusing on Abstract ...