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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

British painter Joseph Turner's profound impact on Australian landscape art is on show in an exhibition featuring his ...