A new exhibition at the Muscarelle Museum of Art spotlights influential women in Abstract Expressionism, presenting nearly 50 ...

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 ...

Jackson Pollock's "Untitled" (c.1944-45) is a drypoint and engraving in black on white wove paper. Inscribed "2nd proof 1967" among other things. (all images via Swann) Tomorrow, Swann auction house ...

Here's a family puzzle: How do you showcase your grandfather's career in honor of his passing two years ago, a career that spans more than five decades? For co-curator and granddaughter Isca ...

Left: Ernest Briggs, “Untitled” (1959), oil on canvas, 82 x 74 inches; Center: Ernest Briggs, “Untitled” (1958), oil on canvas, 30 x 25 inches; Right: Ernest Briggs, “Untitled” (1958), oil on canvas, ...

The standard story of 1960s arts is one of Abstract Expressionism leading into Pop Art and minimalism. A Whitney show proposes an altogether different one centered on surrealism.

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 ...

Any painting created nearly 80 years ago would most certainly have something of a storied past. But the history of Mark Rothko’s Untitled (Yellow, Orange, Yellow, Light Orange), painted in 1955, is ...

Contemporary Artist Anja Stemmer and 2 of her Abstract Expressionism Style Paintings in her Studio in Munich Abstract expressionism aesthetic paintings of contemporary informal artist Anja Stemmer in ...

Early in her career, Joan Mitchell was angered by a reviewer who compared the contours of her Abstract Expressionist paintings to the marks made by a figure skater on ice. Art was meant to liberate ...

Contributing Correspondent, "CBS News Sunday Morning" Serena Altschul is a CBS News contributing correspondent and a contributor for "CBS News Sunday Morning." Here's a family puzzle: How do you ...