A style of abstract painting that emerged in New York during the 1940s and 1950s. It was inspired by European Modernism and closely related to Abstract Expressionism, while many of its notable early proponents were among the pioneering Abstract Expressionists.

Color Field is characterised primarily by large fields of flat, solid colour spread across or stained into the canvas creating areas of unbroken surface and a flat picture plane. The movement places less emphasis on gesture, brushstrokes and action in favour of an overall consistency of form and process. Colour is freed from objective context and becomes the subject in itself.

Leading artists in this genre include Rothko and Motherwell.