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.

Explore the life of the celebrated artist whose luminous color field paintings helped define the abstract expressionist movement, which shifted the art world epicenter from Paris to New York.

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

It is hard to find artists who put color above all else. So many other things can preoccupy their creativity and get in the way. But there was a time when color reigned supreme. Color Field artists ...

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 ...

DENVER ” The Denver Art Museum will host the national debut of “Color as Field: American Painting, 1950-1975” starting Friday through Feb. 3, 2008. Organized by the American Federation of Arts, this ...

Under the I-80, in a dim pocket of shade by a fence, there is a man. I’ve spent many summers watching him in San Francisco, but I’ve never learned his name. I wouldn’t know how to ask without breaking ...