Palm Springs — For Agnes Pelton, painting was a profound means for contemplation. Hers and ours. Take “Messengers,” which centers on a luminous, vase-like translucent vessel floating in a dusky sky ...

Arriving in Las Vegas more than three decades ago, artist Tom Holder was immediately inspired by the natural and not-so-natural aesthetics of the area. He saw the city of Las Vegas as a work of art in ...

The artist is showing her work: pen and ink studies, watercolors of mountain scenes and earth-toned abstract landscapes. Then, you round the corner, and there they are: Large canvases dominated by ...

Nearly 65 years after a painting by acclaimed local artist Agnes Pelton was auctioned off to raise money for the fledgling Cathedral City-based Desert Art Center, her large oil on canvas "Smoke Tree ...

Writing in the Cathedral City News in November 1949 Mrs. Paul W. Clark noted, “It seems to this writer that the kindly, calm and serene face of Miss Agnes Pelton reflects the years of her life and ...

What are the most expensive abstract paintings in the world? I know that deep down inside you’re pretty certain you can churn out an ‘abstract’ painting. There’s a community out there who sees value ...

Bhubaneswar, Oct. 28: Painter Amit Kalla from Rajasthan is displaying his works at an exhibition titled “In the realm of nitya-anitya”, at the Odisha Modern Art Gallery here. The artist has chosen ...

For pure aesthetic pleasure, it’d be tough to top the 40 paintings and drawings that California artist Richard Diebenkorn (1922–1993) completed during a stint in New Mexico from 1950 to 1952. Already ...

What are the most expensive abstract paintings in the world? I know that deep down inside you’re pretty certain you can churn out an ‘abstract’ painting. There’s a community out there who sees value ...