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

The major retrospective – the first to be held since Eric Smith’s death in 2017 – includes his earlier religious works, as ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Some say there were just two rules governing the Club, a group of leading Abstract Expressionists in mid-century New York ...

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 ...

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

I was discouraged because in art class, my paintings were never the ... They helped inspire me to paint abstract pictures — portraits, sunsets. I take a piece of inspiration and use it as ...