Abstract art became “officially” art only in 1952, when Harold Rosenberg wrote a seminal essay published by ARTnews magazine titled “The American Action Painters.” Before that, since after the World ...

That the Museum of Modern Art in New York practically owns—in a very literal sense—the great American art movement, Abstract Expressionism, should be a surprise to no one. After all, the institution ...

Born on May 23, 1910, in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Franz Kline emerged as a defining voice in Abstract Expressionism. After the death of his father when he was seven, he attended Girard College, a ...

The abstract expressionists did not hurt for hubris. "It is one of the great stories of all time," the painter Clyfford Still declared, describing the work of the New York painters surrounding him, ...

(Farmer Gallery) While at the Black Mountain College (summer of 1952) William McGee (1925-1999) studied with Robert Motherwell (1915-1991) and Franz Kline (1910-1962), both of whom would become major ...

The uncertainty of the Great Depression era, along with exposure to European surrealists such as Dali, Mondrian and Leger, who sought refuge in the United States during the Second World War, produced ...

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Here's a chance to really make a statement. This graphic black and white Club Monaco "brush" cotton skirt is inspired by Franz Kline, the American abstract expressionist painter. Its broad strokes ...