Blockbuster exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art underscores the relationship between New York City and the explosion of creative activity among the artists who lived there in the postwar period. Learn why New York became the center of...

A collection of 43 woodcuts that echo the same expressionistic style as Frankenthaler's more well known paintings.

Profiles the life and career of American abstract expressionist painter, Adolph Gottlieb.

From the PBS series, American Masters, this is the biography, a video, and related links for the American abrstract expressionist sculptor Alexander Calder.

Weldon Kees (1914-1955?) was not only an important minor poet of the mid-20th century American literary scene, he was also a fiction writer, playwright, cultural critic and impresario, filmmaker and photographer, abstract expressionist...

Biography of artist Paul Klee whose paintings combine surrealism, cubism, and abstract styles. Examines "The Golden Fish" and Klee's representation of fear and death in his work. Also features examination of "Ad Parnassum."

Expressionism described primarily in terms of visual art. A good history of the movement and its key artists.

This site offers a definition of Expressionism with links to Van Gogh and Gauguin.

Biographical account covers the life and career of Hans Hofmann, German-American abstract expressionist painter.

Biographical summary of the life and career of German expressionist painter and graphic artist, Max Beckmann.

Biographical account covers the life and career of Spanish Surrealist painter Joan Miro.