Jules Olitski, 84, an American artist who rose to prominence in the 1960s as part of the art movement known as color field painting, died Sunday of complications from cancer at Memorial ...

Once upon a time, around the middle of the previous century, art was not required to address political and sociological ills. Neither was it expected, as Stuart Davis once complained, “to mean all ...

Jules Olitski (1922–2007) was born in Snovsk, Russia, (now Ukraine), shortly after his commissar father was executed by the Soviet government. His mother emigrated to the United States, settling in ...

It was the 19th-century British critic William Hazlitt who shrewdly observed that writers “who lack delicacy hold us in their It was the 19th-century British critic William Hazlitt who shrewdly ...

Jules Olitski was a Russian-born American artist. Credited with helping develop the movement of Color Field painting in the mid-1960s, Olitski focused on the material qualities of surface and color in ...

MARLBORO -- Jules Olitski, an important abstract painter who was at the middle of the Color Field Art Movement in New York in the 1950s, and who lived part of the year in New Hampshire, died Sunday in ...

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, ...

It’s safe to say that no matter when you go to the Singer Gallery at the Mizel Center for Arts and Culture, there’s always something worth seeing. But to describe the current offering as being merely ...