The back story is this: By the mid-1960s, when abstract painting had lost much of its avant-garde thrust, sculpture acquired a new importance. But it wasn’t a return of cold, hard, carved stone ...
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 ...
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 ...
NEW YORK — In 1949, the avant-garde American sculptor Philip Pavia declared, "The first half of the century belonged to Paris. The next half century will be ours." He was referring to a loose ...
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 ...
Hope springs from the lavish layers of quick, thick, colorful oil brushstrokes, circles embodying a deep regard for eternal life that’s interconnected with a passion for Native American culture and an ...
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, ...