In the 1950s, Jonah Kinigstein was on the verge of making it big in New York's art world. He won a Fulbright to Rome. His paintings got into the Whitney Museum's annual show of contemporary art (the ...

In the waning summer of 1949, David Park loaded up his car with his non-objective paintings, drove to a Berkeley dump, and hurled them in. Park was a leading figure in abstract expressionism, and his ...

Elmer Bischoff, “Motgomery Block” (1956-59), oil on canvas, 30 x 40 inches (all images courtesy George Adams Gallery) The curator and art historian Susan Landauer met Elmer Bischoff in 1985, while she ...

Michael Hafftka’s first studio was a small room at the bottom of a water tower that sat in the middle of the kibbutz where he briefly lived in the 1970s. For years, not one of Hafftka’s paintings sold ...

“The Figurative Pollock” which opened at the Kunstmuseum in Basel this weekend explores a lesser-known aspect of the legendary Abstract Expressionist’s oeuvre: his figurative paintings. “When you’re ...

BRATTLEBORO — Textbook descriptions of 20th century art movements typically trace a progression from Abstract Expressionism to Color Field, followed by Pop Art as a reaction to Color Field. But a new ...

The Modern’s new exhibit captures the journey of an American painter whose life was cut tragically short in his prime. On view at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth from June 2 through September 22, ...

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Following the great migration of European artists to America because of World War II, the capital of the art world shifted from Paris to New York City with the birth of abstract expressionism. East ...

With the end of the 19th century, American life had changed from agricultural expansion, westward growth, improvements in transportation and communication, to thriving centers of urban life and ...