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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Artnet’s second auction dedicated to Abstract Expressionism and Color Field painting opened today. Curated by Dakota Sica, an avid collector and partner at New York’s Leslie Feely Gallery, the sale ...

He became associated with artists such as Morris Louis and Helen Frankenthaler, who eschewed the emotional turbulence of Abstract Expressionism in favor of lighter and more buoyant abstract imagery ...

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.

Kenneth Noland, an artist who became prominent in an Abstract Expressionist style called color-field painting, died Tuesday at his home in coastal Maine. He was 85. Noland died of cancer in the ...