Her Nature Studies invoke the promise of something greater, a direct line from the material world to the spiritual experience that art is presumed to offer. Hilma af Klint, "Birch" from the series On ...

In 2018, the once obscure and overlooked Swedish artist Hilma af Klint (1862–1944) was catapulted into the limelight with the blockbuster retrospective “Paintings for the Future” at the Solomon R.

Over the past dozen years "Hilma af Klint has become a cultural force," said Jay Cheshes in Smithsonian. "Touted as an early feminist, a queer icon, a prophet, a witch—whatever your worldview wishes," ...

At the Museum of Modern Art, a watercolor herbarium from 1919 and 1920 flaunts the literal side, and even the preachiness, of abstraction’s superheroine. By Walker Mimms From 1856 until the 1960s, ...

"Abstract paintings were being produced even before Kandinsky. Completely independently from each other, Georgiana Houghton (1814-1884) in England, Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) in Sweden and Emma Kunz ...