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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

"What sets the best Color Field paintings apart from Abstract Expressionism is the extraordinary economy of means with which they manage not only to engage our feelings but also to ravish the eye. At ...

Feel the need for an artistic breath of fresh air? There’s a new place to find it: “Color Field” at the Univ. of Houston. The university’s first temporary group show of public sculpture features 13 ...