A trove of stolen paintings by Abstract Expressionist master Hans Hofmann has been recovered by agency Art Recovery International, more than a decade after they were stolen from a fine art storage ...

In the realm of high-modern abstract painting, the color purple rarely gets the spotlight. The hue doesn’t have its own Picasso phase, like rose or blue. And let’s face it: Jackson Pollock’s “Lavender ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The papers of painter, teacher, and writer Hans Hofmann measure 29.92 linear feet and 5.00 GB and date from circa 1904 to 2011, with the bulk of ...

In his recent assessment of Jed Perl’s New Art City in The New York Times Book Review, Mr. Updike upbraided Mr. Perl for refusing to buy into the standard account of postwar painting and ...

In 1963, Hans Hofmann, age eighty-three, arranged to give forty-five paintings and a very substantial sum of money to the University of California at Berkeley. The funds were intended to help build a ...

THE new exhibition of oils, water colors, and other works by Hans Hofmann, at the Whitney Museum, is for the most part a lively, attractive, and colorful affair, but in one respect it’s a ...

Should a single Damien Hirst painting cost more than an entire Old Masters sale? Should Adrian Ghenie’s auction record stand higher than Frida Kahlo’s? The strange, fickle, mostly subjective nature of ...

German American Abstract Expressionist Hans Hofmann credited his time teaching painting at UC Berkeley in the early 1930s for his "start in America as a teacher and artist." Hofmann thanked the ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Shows a group of students clustered ...

Inside the Freedom Tower, where exhibitions focus on immigration, the Cuban exile experience and, for now, a journey through the world of soccer, abstract art isn’t necessarily what people expect to ...