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.

On the legacy of post-painterly abstraction, occasioned by the exhibition and catalogue for “Color as Field: American Painting 1950–1975.” In 1964, Clement Greenberg was invited by the Los Angeles ...

"Color as Field: American Painting, 1950–1975," on view at the Smithsonian American Art Museum Feb. 29 through May 26, is the first full-scale exhibition to examine the sources, meaning and impact of ...

At NSU Art Museum’s ambitious new show on color-field painting, there is one significant omission that lovers of modern art won’t be able to miss. Mark Rothko, whose color-block canvases made him one ...

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, ...

Welcome to One Fine Show, where Observer highlights a recently opened exhibition at a museum outside New York City—a place we know and love that already receives plenty of attention. An installation ...

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 ...

The artist’s earliest Color Field paintings, with their indomitable colors, austere compositions and wild pictorial spaces, are among the movement’s signal achievements. By Roberta Smith In the early ...