36 x 48 in. (91.4 x 121.9 cm.) Adam Cohen was drawn to the arts at just 12 years of age when he took his first art class. The American artist began painting abstracts at age 50 having spent years as a ...

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 ...

The bold artistic movement that made New York the center of the art world in the 1950s gets the exposure it deserves when the Nassau County Museum of Art hosts AB-EX/RE-CON: Abstract Expressionism ...

Abstract artist, Adam Cohen’s acrylic paintings are so rich in texture and colour that they possess a palpable energy. Cohen’s style is very physical as he uses grand gestural movements with his paint ...

Probably the most significant Sam Francis painting in an American collection is “Basel Mural I,” which hangs in Pasadena’s Norton Simon Museum. Part of an epic 1956 commission from a Swiss museum ...

Thomas Berding, “Pie Chart Fanfare” (2015), oil and Flashe on canvas, 48 x 44 inches (courtesy The Painting Center) In terms of freewheeling, soul-bearing angst, Abstract Expressionism might once ...

She was not extremely well known during her lifetime; in fact, she had to use a man’s name to achieve respect in her field. Michael West, born Corinne Michelle West in 1908, was an Abstract ...

In post-World War II New York, abstract expressionism, sometimes called the New York School, emerged, led by male artists like Jackson Pollock, who made the cover of Time magazine in 1956. But "the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Her paintings infused a once-male-dominated genre with a feminist, lesbian sensibility. By Neil Genzlinger Louise Fishman, a widely exhibited artist who imbued her Abstract Expressionist paintings and ...