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 ...

When Hans Hofmann accepted a commission for a large-scale mosaic mural project in the Peruvian city of Chimbote in 1950, he was already seventy years old. An influential Abstract Expressionist painter ...

Object Details Summary 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 the materials dating from 1945 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hofmann's personal papers are augmented by a large selection of printed matter, including exhibition catalogs, articles, news clippings, and monographs about Hofmann and modern art, as well as ...

Hans Hofmann, Artist/ Teacher, Teacher/Artist: Documentary. Directed by Madeline Amgott. 1 p.m. Sunday on KQED. "What's on HBO?" will be the first question to enter the mind of the cable subscriber ...

Hofmann's personal papers are augmented by a large selection of printed matter, including exhibition catalogs, articles, news clippings, and monographs about Hofmann and modern art, as well as ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. While best known for his vibrant, ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Group portrait. In first row, left to ...

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 ...

A resonant exhibit at Vermont's Brattleboro Museum brings together work by artists who have endured displacement in search of freedom. The Written Art Collection is unique in its profile. For the ...