Action-Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning and American Art, 19401976 Oct 22, 2008
Action/Abstraction features more than 50 key works that were carefully chosen from major institutions and collections throughout the U.S. and abroad, including major masterpieces by Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, as well as Helen Frankenthaler, Arshile Gorky, Philip Guston, Hans Hofmann, Jasper Johns, Lee Krasner, Norman Lewis, Barnett Newman, Ad Reinhardt, David Smith, Frank Stella and Clyfford Still. Viewed from the perspective of influential, rival art critics Clement Greenberg and... (AbsoluteArts.com)
Painter Nancy Ellen Craig rejoins the public Sep 14, 2008
Center: Craig stands between her portraits of Frank Lloyd Wright (left) and Hans Hofmann ... In 1964, the couple began spending summers on the Cape, where they met such luminaries as John Dos Passos, Edmund Wilson, and the artist Hans Hofmann. (Boston Globe)
International Alert Issued For Paintings Stolen From Encino Home Sep 10, 2008
Paintings by Hans Hofmann, Arshile Gorky and Chaim Soutine were also among the works taken from the collection amassed during the past 60 years. The artworks were insured by the unidentified couple, who made their fortune in real estate, Hrycyk said. (NBC4.tv, CA)
Artist Farber's career a celebration of details Aug 25, 2008
His other crowd was artists, some who would go on to become more famous as the reputation of abstract expressionism grew historically important figures like Hans Hofmann, Jackson Pollock and Robert Motherwell. Though he had some success as an artist in New York, under the sway of abstract expressionism, it was his movie criticism that first secured his reputation as a brilliant, iconoclastic critic. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
In Provincetown show, a look at cherished studios Jul 25, 2008
Local Search Site Search. THIS STORY HAS BEEN FORMATTED FOR EASY PRINTING. (Boston Globe)
American art's heroic moment Jul 13, 2008
Among the wall panels in this section is a statement by artist Hans Hofmann, in which he declares, Only men have wings for art. The response to that kernel of nonsense comes readily to the eye. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Cline+Dale Fine Art gallery to close May 31, 2008
Dale plans to offer top-tier living artists such as Wolf Kahn, Herb Jackson and John Van Alstine, and others such as Helen Frankenthaler, Hans Hofmann, Joan Mitchell and Lee Krasner. "Being an artist is the hardest job in the world. Being a dealer is No. 2," Dale said. (AZCentral -- Business)
Two painters pressing against boundaries, together and alone Jan 24, 2008
Both artists worked on murals for the WPA, then studied with Hans Hofmann and became skilled and thoughtful abstract painters. Freed had the flashier career; Orlowsky worked harder to promote his work than hers. (Boston Globe)
Michael Goldberg, Abstract Expressionist painter Jan 9, 2008
From 1940 to 1942 he attended the school run by the Abstract Expressionist painter and teacher Hans Hofmann. During World War II. he was an Army master sergeant in North Africa and served in Burma with the commando unit known as Merrill's Marauders. (Boston Globe)
Review: Louise Nevelson's found at the de Young Nov 8, 2007
Did success as a female artist require Nevelson to blow off marriage and motherhood as she did - when her son was 9 - to study in Europe with Hans Hofmann (1880-1966), Chaim Gross (1904-1991) and others there, and later in New York. She thought so, and her career appears to vindicate her: She received several honorary degrees, the Gold Medal for Sculpture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the National Medal of Arts, among many other plaudits. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Burt Hasen, 85, artist inspired by maps Sep 13, 2007
Born in New York City, Hasen studied at the Art Students League, at the school of the painter Hans Hofmann and, for two years after the war, in Paris on the GI Bill. During the war he served in the Air Force in the Pacific, where his duties involved close study of aerial maps, an activity that lastingly influenced his work. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- World)
Artists fight for a fading way of life Sep 4, 2007
Generations of artists flocked there each summer to study with Hawthorne and the artists who later taught in his hilltop barn, including the influential modernist painter Hans Hofmann. Illustrator Norman Rockwell and abstract expressionists Franz Kline and Lee Krasner were among those shaped by lessons in the blazing light of the dunes. (Boston Globe)
Now you can decide for yourself Aug 26, 2007
Netzer also provided an outline of other items visitors will see: The exhibit will trace the friendship of Mercedes Matter and Krasner through oil and charcoal sketches the women created when studying art with Hans Hofmann in New York. It will include photographs and other works by Matter from the 1930s and '40s that, Landau believes, will show for the first time how much the photographer influenced his painter friend. (Boston Globe)
Read Indepth Article Jul 6, 2007
"The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak" Hans Hofmann 1880-1966. IMAGEJohn Nolan Title: Homage To Modigliani Year Created: 2007 Medium: Acrylic Painting Width: 24 inches Height: 24 inches Depth: 2 inches. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Huge bids smash modern art record May 17, 2007
New records were also set for artists including Richard Prince, Hans Hofmann, Morris Louis and Dan Flavin. Andy Warhol's Lemon Marilyn goes under the hammer on Wednesday. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
S.F. vs. N.Y. -- framing a debate that just won't die Jan 21, 2007
This confidence could bring tremendous aesthetic wattage into objects as various as an abstract ink drawing by Richard Diebenkorn (1922-1993), a fraught 1960 figurative painting by Nathan Oliveira and the 1962 "Nocturn" by Hans Hofmann (1880-1966), which looks on the verge of exploding. Fein's 'Torture' at Toomey-Tourell: Anyone prepared to experience whiplash from changes in the terms of art over the past half century should go directly from Hackett-Friedman's show to Toomey-Tourell, where... (San Francisco Chronicle)
