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.

Kenneth Noland, whose brilliantly colored concentric circles, chevrons and stripes were among the most recognized and admired signatures of the postwar style of abstraction known as Color Field ...

"Color as Field: American Painting, 1950–1975," on view at the Smithsonian American Art Museum Feb. 29 through May 26, is the first full-scale exhibition to examine the sources, meaning and impact of ...

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, ...

On the legacy of post-painterly abstraction, occasioned by the exhibition and catalogue for “Color as Field: American Painting 1950–1975.” In 1964, Clement Greenberg was invited by the Los Angeles ...

The sixth edition of the GEMS: Collecting Post-War Abstraction sale, curated by art world veteran Dakota Sica, is now live for bidding on Artnet Auctions through March 25. Below, we spoke to Sica ...

Sumptuously illustrated with reproductions of 50 paintings, this book celebrates the rich artistic legacy of American artist Mark Rothko and his signature works as a painter of abstract canvases.

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 ...

In his preface to Abstract Art: A Global History—arriving this month from Thames & Hudson—Joseph Low (“Pepe”) Karmel, a professor of art history at New York University, writes that the goal of the ...