Abstract Expressionism

Right side

Arshile Gorky

The Liver is the

Cock’s Comb

1944Oil on canvas

6’ 1-1⁄4” × 8’ 2”

Albright-Knox Art GalleryBuffalo, New

York

[Fig. 16-04]

Willem de Kooning

Woman I

1950–52

Oil on canvas

6’ 3-7⁄8” × 4’ 10”

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”

Museum of Modern Art, New York

[Fig. 16-08]

Andrew Wyeth

Christina’s World

1948

Tempera on gessoed panel

Museum of Modern ArtNew York

Lee Krasner

Untitled

1949

Oil on composition board

48 × 37”

The Museum of Modern ArtNew York

[Fig. 16-10]

Franz Kline

Nijinsky

1950

Enamel on canvas

46 × 35-1⁄4”

CollectionMuriel Kallis Newman

Chicago

[Fig. 16-12]

Philip Guston

Zone

1953–54

Oil on canvas

46 × 48”

The Edward R. BroidaTrust, Los Angeles

[Fig. 16-15]

Mark Rothko

Untitled (Rothko number 5068.49)

1949

Oil on canvas

6’ 9-3⁄8” × 5’ 6-3⁄8”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”

The Museum of Modern ArtNew York

[Fig. 16-22]

Clyfford Still

Number 2, 1949

Oil on canvas

7’ 8” × 5’ 7”

Collection June Lang DavisMedina, Washington

[Fig. 16-24]

Adolph Gottlieb

Orb from the Bursts series

1964

Oil on canvas

7’ 6” × 5’

Dallas Museum of Art

[Fig. 16-27]

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]

New American Sculpture

David Smith

left: Cubi XVIII 1964 Stainless steel, height 9’ 8” Museum of

Fine Arts, Boston

Center: CubiXVII 1963

Stainless steel, height 9’ Dallas Museum of Art

Right: Cubi XIX1964 Stainless steel, height 9’

5” Tate, London Art

[Fig. 16-33]

Louise Bourgeois

French American Artist

1911-2010

Louise Bourgeois

Spider

Bronze, stainless steel,

marble

30’ x 33’

Tate Modern London

2007

Joseph Cornell

Medici Slot Machine

1942

Construction

13-1⁄2 × 12 × 4-1⁄4”

Private collectionThe Joseph and Robert Cornell

Memorial Foundation

[Fig. 16-39]

Minor White

Sun in Rock

Devil’s Slide

1947

Gelatin-silver print7-3⁄8 × 9-5⁄8”

The Museum of Modern ArtNew York

[Fig. 16-44]

Postwar European Art

Pablo Picasso

The Charnel House

Paris 1944–45dated 1945

Oil and charcoal on canvas

6’ 6-5⁄8” × 8’ 2-1⁄2”

Museum of Modern Art

New York

[Fig. 17-01]

Alberto Giacometti

The Forest (Composition with Seven Figures and One

Head)

1950Painted bronze

22 × 24 × 19-1⁄4”

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York

[Fig. 17-04]

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]

Bram van Velde

Painting

1955 Oil on canvas

4’ 3” × 6’ 5”

StedelijkMuseum

Amsterdam

[Fig. 17-13]

Wols

Bird

1949

Oil on canvas

36-1⁄4 × 25-3⁄8”

Menil CollectionHouston, Texas

[Fig. 17-16]

Max Bill

Endless Ribbon from a Ring I

1947–49executed 1960

Gilded copper on crystalline base

14-1⁄2 × 27 × 7-1⁄2”

Smithsonian Institution,

Washington, D.C.

[Fig. 17-22]

Giorgio Morandi Still Life1951 Oil on canvas 8-7⁄8 × 19-5⁄8”

Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf [Fig. 17-25]

Giacomo Manzù

Death by Violence

1952–64

Bronze

from “Doors of Death” at St. Peter’sVatican City

[Fig. 17-28]

Lucio Fontana

Spatial Concept #2

1960

Oil on canvas

19-7⁄8 × 28-3⁄4”

Albright-Knox Art Gallery [Fig. 17-31]

Asger Jorn

The Enigma of Frozen Water

1970

Oil on canvas

63-3⁄4 × 51-1⁄8”

Stedelijk MuseumAmsterdam

[Fig. 17-35]

Barbara Hepworth Group III (Evocation)1952 Marble 11 × 26-1⁄2 × 9” base: 2 × 30 × 13”

Piers Arts Centre, Orkney [Fig. 17-41]

Henry Moore

King and Queen

1952–53

Bronze

height 63-1⁄2”

Smithsonian Institution Washington, D.C.

[Fig. 17-43]

Francis Bacon

Head VI

1949

Oil on canvas

36-5⁄8 × 30-1⁄8”

Arts Council CollectionLondon

[Fig. 17-46]

Still from Sergei Eisenstein’s film

The Battleship Potemkin

1925

[Fig. 17-47]

Francis Bacon Triptych—May–June 19731973 Oil on canvas each panel 6’ 6” × 4’ 10”

Private collection [Fig. 17-48]

Lucian Freud

Naked Man, Back View

1991–92

Oil on canvas

72-1⁄4 × 54-1⁄8”

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York

[Fig. 17-51]

Robert Doisneau

From the seriesThe Sideways Glance

1949

Gelatin-silver print

[Fig. 17-54]