Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Here's a family puzzle: How do you showcase your grandfather's career in honor of his passing two years ago, a career that spans ...

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 ...

Jackson Pollock's "Untitled" (c.1944-45) is a drypoint and engraving in black on white wove paper. Inscribed "2nd proof 1967" among other things. (all images via Swann) Tomorrow, Swann auction house ...

The opening of the Clyfford Still Museum last month has prompted a resurgence of interest in early abstraction in Colorado, from the 1940s to the 1970s. In the beginning, Still was way ahead of even ...

The women of Abstract Expressionism are rising from obscurity in a big way. But, until this spring, one foundational West Coast figure had yet to receive her due. Through May 7, Van Doren Waxter in ...

“You can talk about light, scale, depth, beauty, color, shape, form, perspective,” the great mid-century abstract painter Helen Frankenthaler once said, “but it’s no formula of those things that make ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - This Oct. 29, 2009 file photo shows Father Bill Moore with one of his pieces of art in his studio at the Pomona Arts Colony ...

Early in her career, Joan Mitchell was angered by a reviewer who compared the contours of her Abstract Expressionist paintings to the marks made by a figure skater on ice. Art was meant to liberate ...

Contributing Correspondent, "CBS News Sunday Morning" Serena Altschul is a CBS News contributing correspondent and a contributor for "CBS News Sunday Morning." Here's a family puzzle: How do you ...