In the aftermath of World War II, abstract expressionism burst onto the art scene as a defiant rejection of traditional forms and conventions. Artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning ...
On Ninth Street Women: Five Painters and the Movement that Changed Modern Art, by Mary Gabriel. Jackson Pollock was dead. Drunk, as usual, he’d overturned his Oldsmobile in the summer of 1956, ...
DENVER — The story goes like this. It is 1950. Virginia-born painter Judith Godwin learns that dancer and choreographer Martha Graham will be in the region and all Godwin can think about is her desire ...