Exhibited under the title “Energy and Transformation” at Instituto Cervantes, Mexican artist Pedro Trueba’s works hold true to their promise: they exude intense energy and are executed in different ...

The uncertainty of the Great Depression era, along with exposure to European surrealists such as Dali, Mondrian and Leger, who sought refuge in the United States during the Second World War, produced ...

Few art movements are as closely associated with a specific time and place as Abstract Expressionism. For better or worse, our collective understanding of the influential postwar movement is ...

The abstract expressionists did not hurt for hubris. "It is one of the great stories of all time," the painter Clyfford Still declared, describing the work of the New York painters surrounding him, ...

September Twenty-third, 1980, Lee Krasner, ink, crayon and collage on lithographic paper, Richard P. Friedman and Cindy Lou Wakefield Collection Overcoming obstacles such as sexism and discrimination ...

The artist George Morrison (Chippewa) (1919-2000), an artist who left his native Minnesota to study art in New York City in the 1940s and became a member of the group of Abstract Expressionists who ...