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 ...

Her work influenced Jackson Pollock. So, why isn’t Janet Sobel a household name like him? A new exhibit in Houston aims to remedy that. Houston Matters meets her grandson, who lives here, and learns ...

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 ...

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 ...

The paradigm of the “overlooked female artist” is both a cliché and a truth. We all know the art market is unceasingly hungry, and previously sidelined women artists are the perfect food. But that ...

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 ...

16 x 16 in. (40.6 x 40.6 cm.) Poignant framed color gouache painting on paper by second generation Abstract Expressionist painter Jay Milder, a former student of Hans Hofmann, whose work has been ...

A “drip” painting by the Abstract Expressionist sold for $181.2 million with fees, while a bronze head by the Romanian ...

Abstract Expressionist New York: The Big Picture,” which is currently occupying MoMA’s fourth floor, is composed entirely of art drawn from the museum’s colossal permanent collection (much of which ...

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 ...