This document showcases works of art from prominent Abstract Expressionist artists like Hans Hofmann, Jackson Pollock, and Lee Krasner. It also features New American Sculpture pieces from David Smith and Louise Bourgeois. Examples of Postwar European Art are shown from Alberto Giacometti, Germaine Richier, and Hans Hartung among others. The works represent a range of mediums including oil paintings, sculptures, prints, and mixed media pieces that helped establish new directions in mid-20th century art.

1. Abstract Expressionism
Left side

2. Hans Hofmann
Spring
1944–45
(dated 1940 on
reverse)
Oil on wood
11-1⁄4 × 14-1⁄8”
Museum of Modern Art
New York
[Fig. 16-02]

4. Jackson
Pollock
Guardians of
the Secret
1943
Oil on canvas
4’ 3⁄4”
× 6’ 3”
San Francisco
Museum of
Modern Art
[Fig. 16-07]

6. 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]

7. Mark Tobey
Universal Field
1949
Pastel and
tempera on
cardboard
28 × 44”
Whitney Museum
of American Art
New York
[Fig. 16-14]

8. 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]

9. Mark Rothko
North,
Northeast, & East
Wall
Paintings in the
Rothko Chapel
1965–66
(opened in 1971)
Oil on canvas
Houston, Texas
[Fig. 16-20]

10. Barnett Newman
Genesis
—The Break
1946
Oil on canvas
24 × 27”
Collection DIA Center
for the Arts
New York
[Fig. 16-21]

11. Barnett Newman Vir Heroicus Sublimis
1950–51 Oil on canvas 7’ 11-3⁄8” × 17’ 9-1⁄4”
The Museum of Modern Art, New York [Fig. 16-23]

12. 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]

13. New American
Sculpture

14. 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]

15. Louise Bourgeois
French American Artist
1911-2010

16. 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]

17. Louise Nevelson
Dawn’s Wedding Chapel I
1959
Painted wood
7’ 6” × 4’ 3”
Private collection
[Fig. 16-41]

18. Aaron Siskind
Chicago
1949
Gelatin-silver
print
[Fig. 16-45]

19. Postwar European Art

20. Alberto Giacometti
Head of a Man on a Rod
1947
Bronze
height 21-3⁄4”
Private collection
[Fig. 17-02]

21. Germaine Richier
Ouragane (Hurricane Woman)
1948–49
Bronze, height
70-1⁄8”
Musée National d’Art Moderne
Centre d’Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou,
Paris
[Fig. 17-06]

22. Jean Dubuffet
Corps de Dame—Château d’Étoupe
1950
Oil on canvas
45-1⁄16 × 34-7⁄16”
Allen Memorial Art Museum
Oberlin College
Ohio
[Fig. 17-09]

23. Hans Hartung
T-1954-20
1954
Oil on canvas
57-1⁄2 × 38-3⁄8”
National Gallery of Australia
Canberra
[Fig. 17-14]

24. Georges Mathieu
Battle of the
Bouvines
1954
Oil on Canvas
8 ½” x 19’ ¼”

25. Nicolas de Staël
Agrigente
1954
Oil on canvas
34-3⁄4 × 50-1⁄2”
Museum of
Contemporary Art
Los Angeles
[Fig. 17-21]

26. 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]

27. Giacomo Manzù
Large Standing Cardinal
1954
Bronze
height 66-1⁄2”
Smithsonian Giacomo Institution
Washington, D.C.
[Fig. 17-27]

28. Lucio Fontana
Spatial Concept: The End of God
1963
Oil on canvas
70 × 48-1⁄2”
Gallerie dell’Ariete
Milan
[Fig. 17-30]

29. Lucio Fontana
Nature
1959–60
Bronze
24 × 28-3⁄4”
Tate, London
[Fig. 17-32]

30. Hundertwasser
House which was born in
Stockholm, died in Paris, and
myself mourning it
1966
Mixed media
32 × 23-2⁄3”
Private collection
[Fig. 17-39]

31. 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]

32. Francis Bacon
Painting
1946
Oil on canvas
6’ 6” × 4’ 4”
The Museum of Modern Art
New York
[Fig. 17-44]

33. Diego Velázquez
Pope Innocent X
1650
Oil on canvas
45 × 47”
Galleria Doria Pamphilj
Rome
Fig. 17-45]

36. Lucian Freud
Girl with White
Dog
1951–52
Oil on canvas
30 × 40”
Tate, London
[Fig. 17-50]

37. Werner
Bischof
Cologne
1946
[Fig. 17-53]