By Hilton Kramer 11/15/04 12:00am

Tobey and Feininger, Epistolary Buddies In the Avant-Garde

The current exhibition at Achim Moeller Fine Art- Lyonel Feininger/Mark Tobey: Years of Friendship, 1944-1956 -brings together the work of two American modernists who, although very different in background, temperament and style, enjoyed a friendship that’s said to have been important to both. Feininger (1871-1956), born in New York to a German-American family whose interests Read More

By Hilton Kramer 12:00am

Mystic Morris Graves: His Birds, Flowers Have Painterly Weight

Back in the 1950′s, when the Paris art world was rudely awakened to the existence of the Abstract Expressionist painters in New York, some French art critics claimed to have discovered a group of expatriate American painters in Europe whom they promptly dubbed the Ecole du Pacifique -presumably to distinguish them from the ascendant New Read More