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 ...

From the end of World War II through the 1970s, American culture hit one of those golden ages that dot the history of humanity every hundred years or so. The country’s wealth led to a renaissance in ...

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 ...

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, ...