17 June 2015

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Early American Action Painters

Photographs by Aaron SiskindAll rights reserved by the artists and by his legal delegates. New York School Action PaintingPost World War II Abstract Expressionist Artists in New York City represented a new artistic innovation that by the 1950’s had been recognized across the Atlantic including Paris. New York School Action Painting became the leading art movement […]

17 December 2014

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Abstract Expressionist John Grillo Dies At 97

Abstract Expressionist painter John Grillo died of heart failure at the grand age of 97, on November 26th, just over a month after a five-decade retrospective of the artist’s work at University of Massachusetts Amherst. Grillo was born in 1917 in Lawrence, Massachusetts, and became interested in art at a young age. After his family […]