Hans Hofmann’s paintings were acts of self-discovery, thrashed out with all the expansiveness and forthrightness of the new American spirit. But his paintings, to a greater degree than those of his ...

Hans Hoffman declared our entire being nourished by it, Henri Matisse saw it as a means of liberation, and Josef Albers observed that we can never really perceive what it is physically. How these and ...

In one of art history's least beloved anecdotes, Lee Krasner, the pioneering painter, East Hampton resident and wife of Jackson Pollock, recounted to an interviewer that her teacher, artist Hans ...

Hans Hofmann is 80, and his claim to a place in the top ranks of American painters is secure. Yet Hofmann’s renown is not grounded in a lonely, inarticulate struggle of artist and canvas. He, more ...