He began snapping up overlooked masterpieces by the likes of Yvonne Thomas, Sonia Gechtoff, Deborah Remington, and Ethel Schwabacher. These were works priced in the tens or hundreds of thousands, ...

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 ...

Jackson Pollock helped transform modern art and became a symbol of postwar America. This first part explores Abstract Expressionism, the rise of New York as an art capital and the myths that made ...

Any painting created nearly 80 years ago would most certainly have something of a storied past. But the history of Mark Rothko’s Untitled (Yellow, Orange, Yellow, Light Orange), painted in 1955, is ...

"Providing broad coverage of painting, sculpture, and graphic art, the dictionary has entries on more than a thousand artists and on all the major movements and styles of the twentieth century, ...

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 ...

Introduction: Painting and experience in the twentieth century. Modernism as liberty ; Peopling the void : episodes from an alternative history ; 1. After Cubism : reinventing the language of ...