But now an exhibition at London's Tate Modern aims to demonstrate that she was an important figure in the history of modernism perhaps the first abstract modern artist in Lebanon and even the Arab world.

WSJ: Review: Lebanon's Lost Modernist | 'Saloua Raouda Choucair' at Tate Modern in London

Not long ago it was common to write about modern art, particularly abstract art, as if the work, but not the painter, existed.

ECONOMIST: 20th-century art

The new geographers are asking us to make more modest claims for abstract ideas and modern machines than we like to.

NEWYORKER: Faces, Places, Spaces

In his eyes, Greenberg was a moralist in art who laid down rules about how a proper modern painting should look: as abstract and flatly painted as possible.

ECONOMIST: Contemporary-art criticism

An array of vibrant colours and oversized, abstract characters cover Kelburn, bringing a thoroughly modern veneer to the 13th-century building.

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For the next 20 years they showcased modern art with an emphasis on African-Americans, including work by abstract expressionist Norman Lewis, Boston-born Lois Mailou Jones (known for incorporating African images into her work) and lesser-known Washington-area artists.

FORBES: Magazine Article

Vibrantly colourful, semi-abstract and with strangely faceless figures, these are the artist's most startlingly modern works.

ECONOMIST: Honor�� Daumier

ABSTRACT:THE ART WORLD review of the Cindy Sherman retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art.

NEWYORKER: Faces

ABSTRACT:THE ART WORLD review of the new Willem de Kooning retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art.

NEWYORKER: Shifting Picture