DENVER — The story goes like this. It is 1950. Virginia-born painter Judith Godwin learns that dancer and choreographer Martha Graham will be in the region and all Godwin can think about is her desire ...

In one of art history's least beloved anecdotes, Lee Krasner, the pioneering painter, East Hampton resident and wife of Jackson Pollock, recounted to an interviewer that her teacher, artist Hans ...

A selection of 79 drawings from the collection recasts the most celebrated decade in American art as less American. By Roberta Smith As exhibitions go, “Degree Zero: Drawing at Midcentury” at the ...

The hyper-masculine post-war mythology that’s often tied to Abstract Expressionism has long been recognized as a problematic historical narrative because it elides many of the movement’s equally ...

Alfonso Ossorio, Beach Comber, 1953; oil on canvas, 84 3/8″ x 144 3/8″, signed and dated; Courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY Viewing the works of Alfonso Ossorio for the first ...

In the 1950s, abstract expressionism took the art world by storm. Large canvases, exploding with color and energy, filled galleries and museums across the country. Jackson Pollock, perhaps the most ...

“Scarred by war, schooled in surrealism, hip to psychotherapy,” the painters known as the abstract expressionists took the art world by storm in the 1950s, said Barbara Hoffman in the New York Post. A ...

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 ...

Abstract Expressionist New York: The Big Picture,” which is currently occupying MoMA’s fourth floor, is composed entirely of art drawn from the museum’s colossal permanent collection (much of which ...

Abstract Expressionism is a storied movement continually re-told at blockbuster museums: We think we know it so well. The story, however, is still wrong. There are no women in it. The most recent show ...

MANITOWOC - Barbara Timmel, sister of late Wisconsin Abstract Expressionist artist Charles Dix, will speak at Manitowoc's Rahr-West Art Museum at 1 p.m. July 28. Timmel's appearance is part of the ...

Note the sarcasm of a New Yorker magazine cartoon from the early 1950s: Two seemingly well-to-do gentlemen are viewing an abstract painting when one says snobbishly to the other, “His spatter is ...