On Ninth Street Women: Five Painters and the Movement that Changed Modern Art, by Mary Gabriel. Jackson Pollock was dead. Drunk, as usual, he’d overturned his Oldsmobile in the summer of 1956, ...
As a young woman at The Art Students League in Manhattan, Helen Harrison often headed to the nearby Museum of Modern Art at lunchtime, where she'd sit and ponder “One, No. 31, 1950,” the wall-sized ...
AS SOMEONE WHO works with flowers, I’m an unlikely fan of fall, but I love the sculptural look of blooms on their way out, the graceful plumes of grasses gone to seed. Painted in the fall of 1950, ...