This first full-scale examination of the Color Field Movement—which emerged in the U.S. in the 1950s—features approximately 40 paintings by such major figures as Gene Davis, Helen Frankenthaler, ...

Helen Frankenthaler, “Canal” (1963), acrylic on canvas, 208.3 x 146.1 cm (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; purchased with the aid of funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, in ...

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 ...

This exhibition gathers paintings from the 1960s and early 1970s that inventively use bold, saturated, and even hallucinatory color to activate perception. During this period, many artists adopted ...

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 ...

As director at Leslie Feely Gallery, he is a champion of Color Field painting and Abstract Expressionism. Meanwhile, in his Brooklyn space, the Java Project, Sica works to boost the careers of young ...

When Jamie Franklin became curator of the Bennington Museum in 2005, he started connecting with artists’ estates and living artists linked to Bennington College’s midcentury heyday. Founded in 1932 as ...

Welcome to One Fine Show, where Observer highlights a recently opened exhibition at a museum outside New York City—a place we know and love that already receives plenty of attention. An installation ...

I imagine the original premise at the Williams College Museum of Art seemed simple: exhibit a new acquisition, a huge sculptural painting from 1972 by Sam Gilliam. Then came not one but three ...

Frank Bowling, “Dan Johnson’s Surprise” (1969), acrylic on canvas, 115 15/16 × 104 1/8 inches, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase with funds from the Friends of the Whitney Museum of ...