This master of the painted collage obsessively changes his compositions, as revealed by layers of canvas fragments and a variety of materials. The resulting lyrical expressionist shorescapes are musical in their evocation of particular moods and weather.
This master of the energy of tension created wrappings that are unique in American art — from the famous Washington Square Arch to his extensive body of paintings.
The story of Stewart Hitch ranks as one of the most tragic in our contemporary art history. He was charismatic as James Dean, and as hard a drinker as Jackson Pollock. He developed a signature abstract style but most of his art disappeared.
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...
A master of lyrical expressionist landscape painting, Bud Holman captured the energy of the mountains and high desert of the Southwest. His canvases express, in a myriad of colors applied with bravura brushwork, the spirit of lands sacred to Native American tribes. His approach was truly unique in...
