For the first half of her life this prodigy played the violin with several Philharmonic Orchestras. In the second half she became completely immersed in the freedom of painting — often through the night. Now she ranks as top tier among self-taught artists.
This artistic polymath created innovative photograms during the mid 1940s that until now were hidden — yet they stand unique in the history of photography. Also revealed: Karoly’s heretofore unknown influence upon his friend Pablo Picasso was completely missed by the master’s biographers.
Anonymous Anomaly: This teenage artist risked it all in World War II as a teenage B-24 machine gunner — and miraculously survived crashing behind enemy lines. Returning home, he got his master’s — and broke from the norm again, founding an avant colony with an artist-run gallery and...
His paintings refuse to be categorized. In a TedX Talk before his passing, he said, “Art is about asking questions and distrusting easy answers.” His works are lauded for a unique approach combining brightly colored abstraction, text, and cartoon figures. They are brilliant streams of...
Simatos’ work is a time capsule of celebrities, royalty, and the haute bourgeoisie of an era spanning from the 1920s to the 1970s. But the big surprise is that he was also an itinerant trans-Caribbean painter who met many of his sitters on a luxury cruise ship line as staff artist. That makes...
Iria was the first Finnish woman pioneer of abstract painting in America. Prolific but reclusive, her bold abstract paintings are a uniquely vibrant cultural fusion of Finland and America. Her loft in SoHo became a virtual time capsule preserving five decades of paintings.
The extraordinary discovery of this hidden gem in the history of American Art and will soon be revealed. For more than 70 years, in a studio surrounded by 8,000 art books, the singular focus of this master’s unparalleled approach to figurative expressionism was The Passion.
During the 1980s he invented sculpture-as-graffiti and was a driving force in the Rivington School. He bolted his welded sculptures to the city’s signposts — calling them “outstallations.” The title of one says it all: “I’m No Gallery Whore.” His recent paintings — AbEx Graffiti —...
An epiphany led him to discard his career, become wholly dedicated to painting, and succeed in creating a new technique and style of pure pouring. Some paintings drive toward the sublime as sacred shafts of light. Others emit the hallucinatory energy of his inner mind.
In Quirt’s first solo at Julien Levy, in 1936, he was presented as the gallery’s first “radical painter.” He became one of the most influential painters in NYC during the WWII era, with 7 shows at the Whitney and 6 at MoMA. Forgotten after his death in 1968 — but now rediscovered....
