Barbara Sparkman, 71, of Rockport, is making her mark on the art world with abstract landscape paintings. Sparkman, born in South Bend, Ind., moved to Houston in the eighth grade and later ...

Helen Frankenthaler’s Abstract Paintings Strike a Prophetic Note at the Parrish By delicately staining and imbuing her canvases with pastel landscapes, Frankenthaler predicted a deeply uncertain ...

Gilda Aronovic does not paint portraits, still lifes or even recognizable landscapes. She paints feelings, emotions. They’re her own feelings of joy, sorrow, peace or rage but when she puts ...

That’s enough to make art snobs flip. A famous abstract painting by the Dutch artist Piet Mondrian has been hanging upside down in museums for more than 75 years — after it was first displayed ...

In “Valley With Parfleche,” one of Laura Wesley Ford’s paintings at Galerie Francoise, the artist has included across the bottom of the image a band of red and black strips. This … ...