Abstract Expressionism is one of art history’s most well-worn stories. After the Renaissance and Impressionism, maybe the most well-worn. Jackson Pollock. Willem and Elaine de Kooning. Lee Krasner.

Mary Abbott was a quintessential uptown girl, replete with an immaculate New York pedigree that made her rise within the postwar downtown art scene and as a pioneer of Abstract Expressionism all the ...

Grace Hartigan, Mary Abbott and Mildred Thompson created stunning Abstract Expressionist paintings and a great deal more during their long careers. See their work in three separate exhibitions.

A Yale University Art Gallery exhibit on the influential abstract expressionist and teacher Hans Hofmann opened last month, featuring 11 works by the artist and one by his student Lee Krasner. “Hans ...