Ad Reinhardt

The next Artist You Need To Know is Ad Reinhardt (1913 – 1967). Reinhardt was an American abstract artist, art historian, critic and educator whose career spanned more than three decades. He was based in New York City. His artworks were often as controversial as his...

Hedda Sterne

The next Artist You Need To Know is Hedda Sterne (1910 – 2011). Sterne was a Romanian-born American artist who was an active member of the New York School of painters. Her work is often associated with Abstract Expressionism and Surrealism. She was one of the...

Oscar Cahén

The next Artist You Need To Know is Oscar Cahén (1916 – 1956). Cahén (sometimes spelled Oscar Cahen) was a Canadian painter and illustrator and is an interesting study in contradictions within an artist’s practice. He is, on the one hand, well known for being a...

Lee Bontecou

The next Artist You Need To Know is Lee Bontecou (1931 – 2022). Bontecou was a groundbreaking American artist primarily situated in the art community of New York City. Her works are immediately recognizable : her abstract sculptures (her most prolific period was in...

Tony Urquhart

The next Artist You Need To Know is Tony Urquhart (1934 – 2022). Urquhart was a Canadian painter who was a groundbreaking and widely recognized abstractionist in the 1950s and 1960s and instrumental in helping to define Canadian abstract painting. He is also renowned...