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 ...

Grace Hartigan, Cedar Bar, 1951. Oil on canvas, 39 x 31 ¾ in. Courtesy of Grace Hartigan Estate, The Levett Collection, and FAMM. Photo: Fraser Marr “We’re not writing them back into history,” ...

Swedish artist, now regarded as predecessor to Kandinsky and Mondrian, died thinking world was not ready for her work The Swedish artist Hilma af Klint died believing the world was not ready for the ...

This month, throughout the spring, and continuing all year at museums across America, great women abstract artists of today, and their predecessors, receive a hard earned spotlight. Women have never ...

Abstract art has traditionally been dominated by men, but female abstractionists have often been the trailblazers, as a new show at the National Museum of Women in the Arts makes abundantly clear.

Before there was Jackson Pollock, there was Janet Sobel. Pollock became well known outside of art circles for splashing, pouring and flicking paint onto canvases. Some even considered him the inventor ...

FOR half a century art critics have undertaken to address not a sophisticated minority like the readers of literary magazines, but the mass of unbelievers to whom twentieth-century art is a mystery or ...