It took the art world decades to recognize Louise Nevelson, whose monochromatic and immersive sculptures, often incorporating ...

But to see Louise Nevelson’s clusters of black or white shadow boxes is immediately to identify their creator. Nevelson was pushing 60, in the late 1950s, when she settled on this signature ...

Louise Nevelson, born on September 23, 1899, in Pereiaslav, Ukraine, was an influential American sculptor known for her monumental, monochromatic wooden wall pieces and outdoor sculptures.

Louise Nevelson, 79, in July 1979, returning to her childhood home of Rockland, Maine, where she was honored by the Farnsworth Museum of American Art. Associated Press/file ...

It took Nevelson a while to get her footing, in art and in life. She was born Louise Berliawsky in Kiev, in the Ukraine, and moved to Rockland, Maine, with her family when she was 6; her father ...

Louise Nevelson, “For Dance Design” (1937), graphite pencil on paper, sheet: 9 1/4 × 17 1/4 inches (image courtesy the Whitney Museum of American Art) Though art-making remained a constant ...

Susan Rome plays the late sculptor Louise Nevelson in Edward Albee’s “Occupant” at Theater J, which had to create ersatz, but plausible, versions of the artist’s work for the show’s set. (C.

On Lexington Avenue, Louise Nevelson’s Chapel of the Good Shepherd is the artist’s only remaining comprehensive sculptural environment in its original location.

It’s a disheartening dénouement. The Sculpture of Louise Nevelson: Constructing a Legend is at the Jewish Museum, 1109 Fifth Avenue, until Sept. 16.

Louise Nevelson made highly identifiable monochrome wooden assemblages and wielded a larger-than-life personality, meaning the younger Nevelson’s task is not only to preserve the work, but to ...

The flamboyant American sculptor, modern dancer and movie extra Louise Nevelson (1899-1988) was among the mid-20th-century pioneers of environmental and installation art. When many sculptors were ...

Louise Nevelson's artwork looks right at home at the Whitney Museum of American Art, mingling with the skyscrapers of Manhattan. She found inspiration in the city as early as the 1920s, yet it ...