Helen Frankenthaler, the lyrically abstract painter whose technique of staining pigment into raw canvas helped shape an influential art movement in the mid-20th century, and who became one of the most ...

Seattle art patron Virginia Wright curated the exhibition “Color Field Paintings and Related Abstractions,” from the extensive collection she and her husband, Bagley, have acquired over the past 50 ...

Artnet’s third auction dedicated to Abstract Expressionism and Color Field painting is now live. Curated by Dakota Sica, the sale features vivid paintings and works on paper from the post-war period, ...

A new exhibit at the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts in Little Rock is an exploration of modern American Indian art inspired by Abstract Expressionism, Color Field, and the Hard-Edge painting movements. ...

Evolving from abstract expressionism while looking back at Matisse, a loose group of painters in the 1950s and ’60s created a new kind of sensuous abstraction that celebrated color above all else.

Welcome to One Fine Show, where Observer highlights a recently opened exhibition at a museum outside New York City—a place we know and love that already receives plenty of attention. An installation ...

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 ...

At NSU Art Museum’s ambitious new show on color-field painting, there is one significant omission that lovers of modern art won’t be able to miss. Mark Rothko, whose color-block canvases made him one ...

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.

“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 ...