Fredericksen was a Norwegian American who during the 1940s studied at the New Bauhaus in Chicago under Moholy-Nagy and Archipenko. After a 1947 exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago he never actively exhibited his art — with the exception of at least one show at André Emmerich Gallery in New...
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.
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.
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.
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...
Imagine being inspired at a subway station. Here is an artist who creates urban environments as much as he does sculpture and paintings — in the shadow of the Acropolis. He continues to be inspired by that brilliant natural merger of art and science that the Ancient Greeks applied to their art....
