Abstract Expressionism

Left side

Hans Hofmann

Spring

1944–45 (dated 1940 on

reverse)

Oil on wood

11-1⁄4 × 14-1⁄8”

Museum of Modern ArtNew York

[Fig. 16-02]

Jackson Pollock

Guardians of the Secret

1943

Oil on canvas

4’ 3⁄4” × 6’ 3”

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

[Fig. 16-07]

Lee Krasner

Milkweed

1955

Oil, paper and canvas collage on canvas

6’ 10-3⁄8” × 4’ 9-3⁄4”

Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

[Fig. 16-11]

Mark Tobey

Universal Field

1949 Pastel and tempera on cardboard

28 × 44”

Whitney Museum of American Art

New York [Fig. 16-14]

Elaine de Kooning

Harold Rosenberg #3

1956

Oil on canvas

6’ 8” × 4’ 10-7⁄8”

National Portrait Gallery Smithsonian Institution

Washington, D.C.

[Fig. 16-16]

Mark Rothko

North, Northeast, & East

Wall

Paintings in the Rothko Chapel

1965–66 (opened in 1971)

Oil on canvas

Houston, Texas

[Fig. 16-20]

Barnett Newman

Genesis—The Break

1946

Oil on canvas24 × 27”

Collection DIA Center for the Arts

New York

[Fig. 16-21]

Barnett Newman Vir Heroicus Sublimis1950–51 Oil on canvas 7’ 11-3⁄8” × 17’ 9-1⁄4”

The Museum of Modern Art, New York [Fig. 16-23]

Robert Motherwell

Pancho Villa, Dead and Alive

1943 Gouache and oil

with cut-and-pasted papers on cardboard

28 × 35-7⁄8”

Museum of Modern Art, New York

[Fig. 16-28]

New American Sculpture

David Smith

The Letter

1950

Welded steel

37-5⁄8 × 22-7⁄8 × 9-1⁄4”

Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute Museum of Art, Utica, New York

[Fig. 16-31]

Louise Bourgeois

French American Artist

1911-2010

Louise Bourgeois

Quarantania I

1947–53

Painted wood on wooden base

62-3⁄8 × 11-3⁄4 × 12”

The Museum of Modern Art, New York

[Fig. 16-38]

Louise Nevelson

Dawn’s Wedding Chapel I

1959

Painted wood

7’ 6” × 4’ 3”

Private collection

[Fig. 16-41]

Aaron Siskind

Chicago

1949

Gelatin-silver print

[Fig. 16-45]

Postwar European Art

Alberto Giacometti

Head of a Man on a Rod

1947

Bronze

height 21-3⁄4”

Private collection

[Fig. 17-02]

Germaine Richier

Ouragane (Hurricane Woman)

1948–49

Bronze, height

70-1⁄8”

Musée National d’Art ModerneCentre d’Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou,

Paris

[Fig. 17-06]

Jean Dubuffet

Corps de Dame—Château d’Étoupe

1950

Oil on canvas

45-1⁄16 × 34-7⁄16”

Allen Memorial Art MuseumOberlin College

Ohio

[Fig. 17-09]

Hans Hartung

T-1954-20

1954

Oil on canvas

57-1⁄2 × 38-3⁄8”

National Gallery of AustraliaCanberra

[Fig. 17-14]

Georges Mathieu

Battle of the Bouvines

1954

Oil on Canvas

8 ½” x 19’ ¼”

Nicolas de Staël

Agrigente

1954Oil on canvas

34-3⁄4 × 50-1⁄2”

Museum of Contemporary Art

Los Angeles

[Fig. 17-21]

Richard Paul Lohse

Serial Elements Concentrated in Rhythmic

Groups

1949–56

Oil on canvas

35-3⁄8 × 35-3⁄8”

Kunsthaus Zurich

[Fig. 17-24]

Giacomo Manzù

Large Standing Cardinal

1954

Bronze

height 66-1⁄2”

Smithsonian Giacomo Institution Washington, D.C.

[Fig. 17-27]

Lucio Fontana

Spatial Concept: The End of God

1963

Oil on canvas

70 × 48-1⁄2”

Gallerie dell’ArieteMilan

[Fig. 17-30]

Lucio Fontana

Nature

1959–60

Bronze

24 × 28-3⁄4”

Tate, London

[Fig. 17-32]

Hundertwasser

House which was born in Stockholm, died in Paris, and

myself mourning it

1966

Mixed media32 × 23-2⁄3”

Private collection

[Fig. 17-39]

Henry Moore

Study for Tube Shelter Perspective

1940–41

Pencil, wax crayon, colored crayon, watercolor wash, pen

and ink

10-1⁄3 × 6-1⁄2”

Collection Mrs. Henry Moore

[Fig. 17-42]

Francis Bacon

Painting

1946

Oil on canvas

6’ 6” × 4’ 4”

The Museum of Modern ArtNew York

[Fig. 17-44]

Diego Velázquez

Pope Innocent X

1650

Oil on canvas

45 × 47”

Galleria Doria PamphiljRome

Fig. 17-45]

Lucian Freud

Girl with White Dog

1951–52

Oil on canvas

30 × 40”

Tate, London

[Fig. 17-50]

Werner Bischof

Cologne

1946

[Fig. 17-53]