Willem de Kooning, considered one of the greatest artists of his time and a dominant figure in the abstract expressionist art movement, died Wednesday. He was 92. The Dutch-born painter died about ...

A new exhibition at the Muscarelle Museum of Art spotlights influential women in Abstract Expressionism, presenting nearly 50 ...

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, ...

“Jasper Johns,” I once heard an art dealer declare, “is the Rembrandt of our time.” It speaks to the pressures of the marketplace and the hyperbole it can generate that such an opinion is shared by ...

Willem de Kooning (1904–1997), a Dutch-born American artist, emerged as a prominent figure in the Abstract Expressionist movement. Best known for his "Woman" series that blends abstraction with ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Chadd Scott covers the intersection of art and travel. Abstract Expressionism holds the distinction of being the first original ...

Roy Newell, 92, a painter who was one of the original American abstract expressionists and a favorite of artist Willem de Kooning, died of cancer Nov. 22 in New York City, his wife said. Newell was a ...

You know Cooperstown, New York, as the home of Babe Ruth, Willie Mays, Johnny Bench and the greats of baseball history who take up residence at the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Joining them in this ...

Her East Hampton house and studio was recently designated a historic place by the National Park Service. The Elaine de Kooning House and Studio in East Hampton, Long Island, has been named to the ...

The names of the women pioneers of Abstract Expressionism were often eclipsed by those of the men. Only in recent years has the work of artists like Joan Mitchell, Elaine de Kooning, and Lee Krasner ...