The paradigm of the “overlooked female artist” is both a cliché and a truth. We all know the art market is unceasingly hungry, and previously sidelined women artists are the perfect food. But that ...
The first names that come to mind in Abstract Expressionism—Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and the like—may all be men, but women artists also played a crucial role in the internationally-renown ...
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 ...
Abstract expressionism is coming to Washburn University. Mulvane Art Museum has opened a new exhibit: "Women of Abstract Expressionism." The exhibition contains paintings and drawings curated from the ...
Abstract art became “officially” art only in 1952, when Harold Rosenberg wrote a seminal essay published by ARTnews magazine titled “The American Action Painters.” Before that, since after the World ...
On Ninth Street Women: Five Painters and the Movement that Changed Modern Art, by Mary Gabriel. Jackson Pollock was dead. Drunk, as usual, he’d overturned his Oldsmobile in the summer of 1956, ...
September Twenty-third, 1980, Lee Krasner, ink, crayon and collage on lithographic paper, Richard P. Friedman and Cindy Lou Wakefield Collection Overcoming obstacles such as sexism and discrimination ...
In the aftermath of World War II, abstract expressionism burst onto the art scene as a defiant rejection of traditional forms and conventions. Artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning ...
Abstract art became “officially” art only in 1952, when Harold Rosenberg wrote a seminal essay published by ARTnews magazine titled “The American Action Painters.” Before that, since after the World ...