Abstract painter John Hoyland died July 31, 2011 at age 76. Hoyland's paintings are known for "intensity and conviction of their engagement with colour, scale and abstract form."
In Charline Von Heyl's recent Hammer Lecture at UCLA she acknowledges a wide range of visual influences from Kirchner's prints to the graphic qualities of Pueblo pottery.
Painter Hedda Sterne died April 8th, 2011 at the age of 100. Her work always remained fiercely individual, ground-breaking, and difficult to categorize.
March 2011 featured many wonderful painting blog posts on diverse topics ranging from hard-edged abstraction to the Danish Golden age of figure painting.