In the 1950s, Jonah Kinigstein was on the verge of making it big in New York's art world. He won a Fulbright to Rome. His paintings got into the Whitney Museum's annual show of contemporary art (the ...
Elmer Bischoff, “Motgomery Block” (1956-59), oil on canvas, 30 x 40 inches (all images courtesy George Adams Gallery) The curator and art historian Susan Landauer met Elmer Bischoff in 1985, while she ...
“When you’re painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge,” Pollock once famously said to Seldon Rodman. Yet in Pollock’s most famous work—his drip paintings—any figurative aspects ...
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