10. Barnett Newman
Onement, I,
1948
Oil on canvas and oil on masking tape on
canvas
27-1⁄4 × 16-1⁄4”
The Museum of Modern Art
New York
[Fig. 16-22]
11. Clyfford Still
Number 2, 1949
Oil on canvas
7’ 8” × 5’ 7”
Collection June Lang Davis
Medina, Washington
[Fig. 16-24]
12. Adolph Gottlieb
Orb from the Bursts series
1964
Oil on canvas
7’ 6” × 5’
Dallas Museum of Art
[Fig. 16-27]
13. Robert Motherwell
Elegy to the
Spanish Republic,
No. 34
1953–54
Oil on canvas
6’ 8” × 8’ 4”
Albright-Knox Art
Gallery, Buffalo,
New York
[Fig. 16-29]
15. David Smith
left: Cubi XVIII
1964 Stainless
steel, height 9’
8” Museum of
Fine Arts, Boston
Center: Cubi
XVII 1963
Stainless steel,
height 9’ Dallas
Museum of Art
Right: Cubi XIX
1964 Stainless
steel, height 9’
5” Tate, London
Art
[Fig. 16-33]
18. Joseph Cornell
Medici Slot Machine
1942
Construction
13-1⁄2 × 12 × 4-1⁄4”
Private collection
The Joseph and Robert Cornell
Memorial Foundation
[Fig. 16-39]
19. Minor White
Sun in Rock
Devil’s Slide
1947
Gelatin-silver print
7-3⁄8 × 9-5⁄8”
The Museum of
Modern Art
New York
[Fig. 16-44]
21. Pablo Picasso
The Charnel House
Paris 1944–45
dated 1945
Oil and charcoal on
canvas
6’ 6-5⁄8” × 8’ 2-1⁄2”
Museum of Modern
Art
New York
[Fig. 17-01]
22. Alberto Giacometti
The Forest (Composition
with Seven Figures and One
Head)
1950
Painted bronze
22 × 24 × 19-1⁄4”
The Metropolitan Museum of
Art
New York
[Fig. 17-04]
23. Balthus
Les Beaux Jours
(The Golden
Days)
1944–46
Oil on canvas
4’ 10-1⁄4” × 6’
6-3⁄4”
Smithsonian
Institution,
Washington, D.C.
[Fig. 17-07]
27. Max Bill
Endless Ribbon from a
Ring I
1947–49
executed 1960
Gilded copper on
crystalline base
14-1⁄2 × 27 × 7-1⁄2”
Smithsonian
Institution,
Washington, D.C.
[Fig. 17-22]
28. Giorgio Morandi Still Life
1951 Oil on canvas 8-7⁄8 × 19-5⁄8”
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf [Fig. 17-25]
29. Giacomo Manzù
Death by Violence
1952–64
Bronze
from “Doors of Death”
at St. Peter’s
Vatican City
[Fig. 17-28]
Arshile Gorky, The Liver is the Cock’s Comb, 1944. Oil on canvas, 6’ 1-1⁄4” × 8’ 2” (1.9 × 2.5 m). Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York. [Fig. 16-04]
Willem de Kooning, Woman I, 1950–52. Oil on canvas, 6’ 3-7⁄8” × 4’ 10” (1.9 × 1.47 m). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. [Fig. 16-06]
Jackson Pollock, Number 1A, 1948, 1948. Oil and enamel paint on canvas, 5’ 8” × 8’ 8” (1.73 × 2.64 m). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. [Fig. 16-08]
Lee Krasner, Untitled, 1949. Oil on composition board, 48 × 37” (121.9 × 93.9 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. [Fig. 16-10]
Philip Guston, Zone, 1953–54. Oil on canvas, 46 × 48” (116.8 × 122.2 cm). The Edward R. Broida Trust, Los Angeles. [Fig. 16-15]
Mark Rothko, Untitled (Rothko number 5068.49), 1949. Oil on canvas, 6’ 9-3⁄8” × 5’ 6-3⁄8” (2.1 × 1.7 m). National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. [Fig. 16-19]
Barnett Newman, Onement, I, 1948. Oil on canvas and oil on masking tape on canvas, 27-1⁄4 × 16-1⁄4” (69.2 × 41.2 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. [Fig. 16-22]
Clyfford Still, Number 2, 1949. Oil on canvas, 7’ 8” × 5’ 7” (2.3 × 1.7 m). Collection June Lang Davis, Medina, Washington. [Fig. 16-24]
Minor White, Sun in Rock, Devil’s Slide, 1947, October 12, 1947. Gelatin-silver print, 7-3⁄8 × 9-5⁄8” (18.7 × 24.5 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. [Fig. 16-44]
Pablo Picasso, The Charnel House, Paris 1944–45, dated 1945. Oil and charcoal on canvas, 6’ 6-5⁄8” × 8’ 2-1⁄2” (2 × 2.5 m). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. [Fig. 17-01]
Alberto Giacometti, The Forest (Composition with Seven Figures and One Head), 1950.
Painted bronze, 22 × 24 × 19-1⁄4” (55.9 × 61 × 48.9 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman Collection, Gift of Muriel Kallis Newman. 2006.32.18. [Fig. 17-04]
Balthus, Les Beaux Jours (The Golden Days), 1944–46. Oil on canvas, 4’ 10-1⁄4” × 6’ 6-3⁄4” (1.48 × 2 m). Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. [Fig. 17-07]
Bram van Velde, Painting, 1955. Oil on canvas, 4’ 3” × 6’ 5” (1.3 × 2 m). Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. [Fig. 17-13]
Max Bill, Endless Ribbon from a Ring I, 1947–49, executed 1960. Gilded copper on crystalline base, 14-1⁄2 × 27 × 7-1⁄2” (36.8 × 68.6 × 19.1 cm). Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Gift of Joseph H. Hirshorn, 1966. [Fig. 17-22]
Giorgio Morandi, Still Life, 1951. Oil on canvas, 8-7⁄8 × 19-5⁄8” (22.5 × 50 cm). Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf. [Fig. 17-25]
Giacomo Manzù, Death by Violence, 1952–64. Bronze, from “Doors of Death” at St. Peter’s, Vatican City. [Fig. 17-28]
Lucio Fontana, Spatial Concept #2, 1960. Oil on canvas, 19-7⁄8 × 28-3⁄4” (50.4 × 73 cm); framed 20-7⁄8 × 29-7⁄8” (52.7 × 75.5 cm). Albright-Knox Art Gallery. Gift of the Seymour H. Knox Foundation, Inc., 1971. [Fig. 17-31]
Asger Jorn, The Enigma of Frozen Water, 1970. Oil on canvas, 63-3⁄4 × 51-1⁄8” (162 × 130 cm). Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. [Fig. 17-35]
Barbara Hepworth, Group III (Evocation), 1952. Marble, 11 × 26-1⁄2 × 9” (27 × 67.2 × 22.6 cm), base: 2 × 30 × 13” (5.1 × 76.3 × 32.8 cm). Piers Arts Centre, Orkney. [Fig. 17-41]
Henry Moore, King and Queen, 1952–53. Bronze, height 63-1⁄2” (161.3 cm). Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. [Fig. 17-43]
Francis Bacon, Head VI, 1949. Oil on canvas, 36-5⁄8 × 30-1⁄8” (93.2 × 76.5 cm). Arts Council Collection, London. [Fig. 17-46]
Still from Sergei Eisenstein’s film The Battleship Potemkin, 1925. [Fig. 17-47]
Francis Bacon, Triptych—May–June 1973, 1973. Oil on canvas, each panel 6’ 6” × 4’ 10” (1.9 × 1.5 m). Private collection. [Fig. 17-48]
Lucian Freud, Naked Man, Back View, 1991–92. Oil on canvas, 72-1⁄4 × 54-1⁄8” (183.5 × 137.5 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. [Fig. 17-51]
Robert Doisneau, From the series The Sideways Glance, 1949. Gelatin-silver print. [Fig. 17-54]
![Arshile Gorky
The Liver is
the
Cock’s Comb
1944
Oil on canvas
6’ 1-1⁄4”
× 8’ 2”
Albright-Knox
Art Gallery
Buffalo, New
York
[Fig. 16-04]](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)