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 ...

The artist’s earliest Color Field paintings, with their indomitable colors, austere compositions and wild pictorial spaces, are among the movement’s signal achievements. By Roberta Smith In the early ...

Liza Lou. “Color Field,” 2013-15. Glass beads, stainless steel, and Signex. 43’7″ x 24’7″. Courtesy of the artist and White Cube, London. It took a village — over 500 people beading, sorting, and ...

Kenneth Noland, the abstract artist whose sensitive approach to color helped define and establish the Washington Color Field school of painting, died Tuesday at the age of 85 at his home in Maine.

One of this season’s most important shows — at least to those of us with an interest in the history of contemporary art in our region — is Opened Windows, a retrospective devoted to the work of ...

When Jamie Franklin became curator of the Bennington Museum in 2005, he started connecting with artists’ estates and living artists linked to Bennington College’s midcentury heyday. Founded in 1932 as ...