Kenneth Noland, the abstract artist whose sensitive approach to color helped define and establish the Washington Color Field school of painting, died Tuesday at the age of 85 at his home in Maine.

The sixth edition of the GEMS: Collecting Post-War Abstraction sale, curated by art world veteran Dakota Sica, is now live for bidding on Artnet Auctions through March 25. Below, we spoke to Sica ...

From the end of World War II through the 1970s, American culture hit one of those golden ages that dot the history of humanity every hundred years or so. The country’s wealth led to a renaissance in ...

On the legacy of post-painterly abstraction, occasioned by the exhibition and catalogue for “Color as Field: American Painting 1950–1975.” In 1964, Clement Greenberg was invited by the Los Angeles ...

Helen Frankenthaler, “Canal” (1963), acrylic on canvas, 208.3 x 146.1 cm (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; purchased with the aid of funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, in ...

It’s not just music. It’s sonic abstraction. A weekend event at the Museum of Fine Arts St. Petersburg is exploring art on the walls and on the airwaves. Confluence of visual art, music “Magnetic ...

Mildred Thompson, “Magnetic Fields” (1991) oil on canvas, triptych 70.5 x 150 inches (art and photo courtesy and copyright of the Mildred Thompson Estate, Atlanta, GA) KANSAS CITY — Art history rarely ...

When Jamie Franklin became curator of the Bennington Museum in 2005, he started connecting with artists’ estates and living artists linked to Bennington College’s midcentury heyday. Founded in 1932 as ...

Adams’ latest work abandons floral references, transforming the painted surface into an open field of sensation. © Lindsay Adams, courtesy the artist and Sean ...

DENVER ” The Denver Art Museum will host the national debut of “Color as Field: American Painting, 1950-1975” starting Friday through Feb. 3, 2008. Organized by the American Federation of Arts, this ...