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Abstract Expressionism: Quick Facts

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Date 1945 - 1960
Related Artists Jackson Pollock • Mark Rothko • Willem de Kooning • Norman Lewis • Elaine de Kooning • Lee Krasner • Grace Hartigan • Joan Mitchell • Ethel Schwabacher • Lee Bontecou • Jay DeFeo • Jasper Johns • Robert Irwin • Clyfford Still • Robert Motherwell • Conrad Marca-Relli • Larry Rivers • Cy Twombly • Sam Francis • Helen Frankenthaler • Jean-Paul Riopelle • Ad Reinhardt • Hans Hofmann • Jack Tworkov • Franz Kline • Barnett Newman • Bradley Walker Tomlin • Kenneth Noland • Adolph Gottlieb • Philip Guston • Jules Olitski • Morris Louis • William Baziotes • Agnes Martin

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Joan Mitchell: City Landscape
Arshile Gorky: The Liver Is the Cock's Comb
Mark Rothko: Orange and Yellow
Philip Guston: Back View
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