A master and pioneer of mid-twentieth-century abstract expressionism, painter Clyfford Still was something of an eccentric in the artist-as-egomaniac stripe. His antisocial behavior led to a situation ...
Grace Hartigan, Cedar Bar, 1951. Oil on canvas, 39 x 31 ¾ in. Courtesy of Grace Hartigan Estate, The Levett Collection, and FAMM. Photo: Fraser Marr “We’re not writing them back into history,” ...
In Paris at the turn of the century, Georges Rouault began painting boldly Expressionist canvases of deep symbolism and lyricism. He had been mentored by Gustave Moreau, and his circle would soon grow ...
Most people have heard of Jackson Pollock. But few are familiar with Janet Sobel, the Ukrainian-born American painter who first pioneered Pollock’s iconic drip-painting technique. The Abstract ...
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 ...
The titans of Abstract Expressionism are on view now at The Royal Academy of Arts in London. It’s a massive show comprising 163 works by 30 painters, sculptors, and photographers, and will likely go ...
In 2024, art collector Christian Levett opened Europe’s first museum dedicated to women artists in a little town in the south of France. But for those of us who can’t make the trip to the Femmes ...
Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Outstanding, astounding, filled with thrills but also with melancholy, Abstract Expressionism at the Royal Academy is ...
This month, throughout the spring, and continuing all year at museums across America, great women abstract artists of today, and their predecessors, receive a hard earned spotlight. Women have never ...
Only East Coast showing of “Abstract Expressionists: The Women” at the Muscarelle Museum in Williamsburg ends April 26. Style Weekly provides insightful and tenacious coverage of the arts, culture and ...
Dale Chisman. Since Dale Chisman is among the greatest abstract painters who ever plied their trade in Colorado, this show is unquestionably one of the most significant of the year. Recent Paintings ...