He began snapping up overlooked masterpieces by the likes of Yvonne Thomas, Sonia Gechtoff, Deborah Remington, and Ethel Schwabacher. These were works priced in the tens or hundreds of thousands, ...

Here's a family puzzle: How do you showcase your grandfather's career in honor of his passing two years ago, a career that spans more than five decades? For co-curator and granddaughter Isca ...

In the aftermath of World War II, abstract expressionism burst onto the art scene as a defiant rejection of traditional forms and conventions. Artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning ...

The women of Abstract Expressionism are rising from obscurity in a big way. But, until this spring, one foundational West Coast figure had yet to receive her due. Through May 7, Van Doren Waxter in ...

Jackson Pollock's "Untitled" (c.1944-45) is a drypoint and engraving in black on white wove paper. Inscribed "2nd proof 1967" among other things. (all images via Swann) Tomorrow, Swann auction house ...

Left: Ernest Briggs, “Untitled” (1959), oil on canvas, 82 x 74 inches; Center: Ernest Briggs, “Untitled” (1958), oil on canvas, 30 x 25 inches; Right: Ernest Briggs, “Untitled” (1958), oil on canvas, ...

"Perhaps if I hadn't had to fight, I would have quit," the artist Joan Mitchell once said. "I don't know. I doubt it, though." Mitchell's work may have been born out of struggle, but there is no ...

NEW YORK — Sonia Gechtoff, a prominent abstract expressionist on the West Coast early in her career and later a mainstay of the New York art scene, died Feb. 1 at a hospice center in the Bronx. She ...

Contributing Correspondent, "CBS News Sunday Morning" Serena Altschul is a CBS News contributing correspondent and a contributor for "CBS News Sunday Morning." Here's a family puzzle: How do you ...