Described by the Freeman’s Journal as being the ‘most consciously modern’ of the exhibitors, Dickey moved to England in 1924, after which he lost his connection to the Dublin Painters.
"My paintings are nothing else but the reflection of nature," he once wrote in a 1963 questionnaire for New York's Museum of Modern Art. In 1963, Morris Graves, a famous abstract painter from the ...
Davie’s roster of references and influences is extensive, and includes Jungian psychoanalysis, Pictish symbol stones, contemporary abstract painters, and his lifelong passion and aptitude for playing ...
Gillian Ayres, one of Britain's leading abstract painters of the last 60 years, has died at the age of 88. Ayres was at the forefront of the British contemporary art scene from the 1950s ...
Weekly from 1956 to ’63, a charismatic painter named Lorser Feitelson filled America’s living rooms with the first televised history of art. We’re still exploring — and trapped in — his ...