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Swedish occultist, scholar, and artist, Hilma af Klint (1862–1944), produced a series of 193 paintings after receiving a commission in 1906 from a divine spirit that offered complex iconographic insight into human ontology. The resulting series of colorful abstract paintings wou…

Although he was active during the height of the avant-garde in Paris and was responsible for germinating the ides of modern art in the United States, Jan Matulka is unknown to many and left out of the narrative of American art history. Art history is self-perpetuating, and many …

During the 1930s, Russian-American artist Raphael Soyer (December 25, 1899–November 4, 1987), a committed realist, was one of the preeminent artists working in the United States. However, with Abstract Expressionism superseding American Scene Painting as the dominant mode of exp…