Visual Arts at Mid-Century
Mondrian & Ernst
Abstract Expressionism
Loose vs. Tight Painting Style
Hans Hoffman ( )
Arshile Gorky ( )
Action Painting
William De Kooning ( )
Woman I
De Kooning, Woman on a Bicycle, , Abstract Expressionism
Sumerian Votive figures
Woman on a Bicycle
Jackson Pollock ( )
“Jack the Dripper”
Pollock, Convergence, 1952, Abstract Expressionism
Color Field Painting
Mark Rothko ( )
Acrylic on Paper
Rothko, Untitled, 1960, Abstract Expressionism
Helen Frankenthaler (b.1928)
Frankenthaler, Before the Cranes, 1958, Abstract Expressionism
American Realist Tradition
Edward Hopper ( )
House by the Railroad
Hopper, Nighthawks, 1942, Realism
Sculpture
Segal, Bus Riders
Nonfigurative Sculpture
Smith, Cubi XVIII
Alexander Calder ( )
Calder, Big Red, 1959, Mobile
Architecture at Mid-Century
Seagram Building & Chase Manhattan Bank
TWA Terminal
Guggenheim Museum interior