WASHINGTON (AP) — When abstract expressionism was all the rage in American art in the mid-20th century, many artists thought the art of painting portraits was dead. Artist Chuck Close went so far as ...

Kenneth Noland, the abstract artist whose sensitive approach to color helped define and establish the Washington Color Field school of painting, died Tuesday at the age of 85 at his home in Maine.

Byron Kim crouched on a small tarp unfurled in the middle of the atrium at the National Gallery of Art’s East Building, studying NGA housekeeper Leora Wilson’s skin and a dab of oil paint he had mixed ...