Abstract Expressionism emerged in the United States, specifically New York, during the 1940s. It was a way for artists to ...

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 ...

Few art movements are as closely associated with a specific time and place as Abstract Expressionism. For better or worse, our collective understanding of the influential postwar movement is ...

Her paintings infused a once-male-dominated genre with a feminist, lesbian sensibility. By Neil Genzlinger Louise Fishman, a widely exhibited artist who imbued her Abstract Expressionist paintings and ...