Abstract artist, Adam Cohen’s acrylic paintings are so rich in texture and colour that they possess a palpable energy. Cohen’s style is very physical as he uses grand gestural movements with his paint ...

36 x 48 in. (91.4 x 121.9 cm.) Adam Cohen was drawn to the arts at just 12 years of age when he took his first art class. The American artist began painting abstracts at age 50 having spent years as a ...

“You can talk about light, scale, depth, beauty, color, shape, form, perspective,” the great mid-century abstract painter Helen Frankenthaler once said, “but it’s no formula of those things that make ...

Ed Clark, “Red” (1988), acrylic on canvas, 54 x 67 1/2 inches (all images courtesy Tilton Gallery) Ed Clark had his first New York exhibition at the Brata Gallery in 1958, which is why his work is ...

The Whitney Museum of American Art has acquired Norman Lewis’s American Totem, a 1960 painting by one of the few African Americans associated with the New York School of Abstract Expressionist artists ...

The first names that come to mind in Abstract Expressionism—Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and the like—may all be men, but women artists also played a crucial role in the internationally-renown ...

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, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Chadd Scott covers the intersection of art and travel. Abstract Expressionism holds the distinction of being the first original ...

Ed Clark’s approach is simple and straightforward, and he has not altered it much over the years. I don’t think he needs to. Ed Clark had his first New York exhibition at the Brata Gallery in 1958, ...