This artwork illustrates some ways women identified and combined styles of bold action and thoughtfulness when creating Abstract Expressionism. Influenced by her time in Italy,… Read More »Sonia Gechtoff: The Beginning, 1960

Bacchus #3 is a part of a seven-year series of paintings and watercolors that Elaine de Kooning completed from 1976 to 1983. To render that… Read More »Elaine de Kooning: Bacchus #3, 1978

Perle Fine combines paint and collage in Early Morning Garden to create an environment that is calm but vibrant. With soft hues of black, white,… Read More »Perle Fine: Early Morning Garden, 1957

In Burning Candles, Lee Krasner assembles parts of her earlier works- cut and torn drawings and paintings with new brushwork- into a vibrant collage. The… Read More »Lee Krasner: Burning Candle, 1955

Elaine de Kooning depicts the chaotic Bullfight in her artwork, Bullfight, which is based on expressive brushstrokes as well as distinct abstract forms. Through its… Read More »Elaine de Kooning: Bullfight, 1959

Unlike many of her Abstract Expressionist peers, Mitchell never rejected representational influence but built upon nature’s emotive and sensory impressions, especially the power of trees,… Read More »Joan Mitchell: Hemlock, 1956

The Seasons is one of Lee Krasner’s most ambitious and emotionally charged paintings. Made in the aftermath of personal loss and the death of her… Read More »Lee Krasner: The Seasons, 1957

Helen Frankenthaler first demonstrated an innovative soak-staining technique in Mountains and Sea, revolutionizing the potential for abstraction. She poured thinly reduced oil paint directly onto… Read More »Helen Frankenthaler: Mountains and Sea, 1952