Most people have heard of Jackson Pollock. But few are familiar with Janet Sobel, the Ukrainian-born American painter who first pioneered Pollock’s iconic drip-painting technique. The Abstract ...
In 2024, art collector Christian Levett opened Europe’s first museum dedicated to women artists in a little town in the south of France. But for those of us who can’t make the trip to the Femmes ...
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,” ...
In Paris at the turn of the century, Georges Rouault began painting boldly Expressionist canvases of deep symbolism and lyricism. He had been mentored by Gustave Moreau, and his circle would soon grow ...
In one of art history's least beloved anecdotes, Lee Krasner, the pioneering painter, East Hampton resident and wife of Jackson Pollock, recounted to an interviewer that her teacher, artist Hans ...
The titans of Abstract Expressionism are on view now at The Royal Academy of Arts in London. It’s a massive show comprising 163 works by 30 painters, sculptors, and photographers, and will likely go ...
‘Abstract Expressionists: The Women’ Review: A Movement’s Underexplored Side The Muscarelle Museum of Art takes an engaging, expansive approach to highlighting the often-overlooked female ...
Only East Coast showing of “Abstract Expressionists: The Women” at the Muscarelle Museum in Williamsburg ends April 26. Style Weekly provides insightful and tenacious coverage of the arts, culture and ...
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 ...