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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Students will learn about several Abstract Expressionists and identify the ways in which they use color, line and form to express themselves. Objectives: Students ...

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 ...

Art museums in Los Angeles currently overflow with first-rate exhibitions. An unusually strong array of well-organized solo and thematic shows covering a variety of art has made the first months of ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... “Women of Abstract Expressionism” is a major event for the Denver Art Museum: A single exhibit that attempts to influence the way we think about art history ...