Thinking about the artist’s relationship to art history, Robert Motherwell put it like this: Every intelligent painter carries the whole culture of modern painting in his head. It is his real subject, ...

Karl Benjamin, a painter of dazzling geometric abstractions who established a national reputation in 1959 as one of four Los Angeles-based Abstract Classicists and created a highly acclaimed body of ...

The American-born, London-based artist Julie Umerle is a contemporary abstract painter whose work has been exhibited widely both in the United Kingdom and abroad. She has been the artist-in-residence ...

Paul Reed has an easy rule of thumb for distinguishing the important painters of his day. “I have a saying: Pollock dripped,” he explains. “[Helen] Frankenthaler poured. Morris Louis poured. Howard ...