Artists by Time Period: Abstract Expressionism

Jackson Pollock
Jackson Pollock
Authors, Artists

Paul Jackson Pollock was an influential American painter and a major force in the abstract expressionist movement. He was married to noted abstract painter Lee Krasner....

Jasper Johns
Jasper Johns
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Jasper Johns, Jr. is an American contemporary artist who primarily works in painting and printmaking. He is represented by the Matthew Marks Gallery. Jasper Johns...

Mark Rothko
Mark Rothko
Authors, Artists

Mark Rothko, born Marcus Rothkowitz , was a Latvian-born American painter and printmaker who is classified as an abstract expressionist, although...

Clyfford Still
Clyfford Still
Artists

Clyfford Still was an American painter, and one of the leading figures of Abstract Expressionism. Clyfford Still was a leader in the first generation of Abstract Expressionists...

Frank Stella
Frank Stella
Artists

Frank Stella is an American painter and printmaker. He is a significant figure in minimalism and post-painterly abstraction. He was born in Malden, Massachusetts. After attending high...

Agnes Martin
Agnes Martin
Artists

Agnes Martin was a Canadian-American painter, often referred to as a minimalist; Martin considered herself an abstract expressionist. She was born in Macklin, Saskatchewan...

Clement Greenberg
Clement Greenberg
Artists, Authors

Clement Greenberg (January 16, 1909 – May 7, 1994) was an American essayist known mainly as an influential visual art critic closely associated with American Modern art of the mid-20th...

Helen Frankenthaler
Helen Frankenthaler
Artists

Helen Frankenthaler is an American post-painterly abstraction artist. Born in New York City, she was influenced by Jackson Pollock's paintings and by Clement Greenberg. She was...

Barnett Newman
Barnett Newman
Artists, Authors

Barnett Newman was an American artist. He is seen as one of the major figures in abstract expressionism and one of the foremost of the color field painters. Newman was...

Robert Rauschenberg
Robert Rauschenberg
Authors, Artists, Actors & Actresses

Robert Rauschenberg was an American artist who came to prominence in the 1950's transition from Abstract Expressionism to Pop Art. Rauschenberg...

Mark Tobey
Mark Tobey
Artists

Mark George Tobey was an American abstract expressionist painter, born in Centerville, Wisconsin. Widely recognized throughout the United States and Europe, Tobey is...

Lee Krasner
Lee Krasner
Artists

Lee Krasner was an influential abstract expressionist painter in the second half of the 20th century. In 1945, Krasner married artist Jackson Pollock, who was also influential...

Jack Tworkov
Jack Tworkov
Artists

Jack Tworkov was a Polish born American abstract expressionist painter. He was born in Biała Podlaska, Russian Empire and immigrated to the United States in 1913 with his mother and...

Franz Kline
Franz Kline
Artists

Franz Kline was an American painter mainly associated with the Abstract Expressionist painters who were centered, geographically, around New York, and temporally, in the 1940s...

Richard Diebenkorn
Richard Diebenkorn
Artists

Richard Clifford Diebenkorn, Jr. was a well-known 20th century American painter. His early work is associated with Abstract expressionism and the Bay Area Figurative Movement...

Elaine de Kooning
Elaine de Kooning
Artists, Authors

Elaine Marie de Kooning (March 12, 1918 - February 1, 1989), was an abstract expressionist painter and a vibrant figure in the New York School. She was born Elaine Marie Fried in Brooklyn...

Morris Louis
Morris Louis
Artists

Morris Louis is a United States abstract expressionist painter, one of the many such painters to emerge in the 1950s. From 1929 to 1933,...

Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
Artists

Louise Berliawsky Nevelson was a Ukrainian-born American artist. Nevelson is known for her abstract...

Ad Reinhardt test display name
Ad Reinhardt test display name
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Adolph Fredrick Reinhardt was an Abstract painter active in New York beginning in the 1930's and continuing through the 1960's. He was a member of the...

John Chamberlain
John Chamberlain
Artists

John Angus Chamberlain (born April 16, 1927) is an American sculptor. Born in Rochester, Indiana, John Chamberlain spent much of his youth in Chicago. After serving in the navy from 1943 to...

Adolph Gottlieb
Adolph Gottlieb
Artists

Adolph Gottlieb was an American abstract expressionist painter and sculptor. He was born in New York. From 1920-1921 he studied at the Art Students League of New York,...

Peter Voulkos
Peter Voulkos
Artists, Authors

Peter Voulkos (January 29, 1924–2002) popular name of Panagiotis Voulkos, was an American artist of Greek descent. He is known for his Abstract Expressionist ceramic sculptures, which...

David Smith
David Smith
Artists

David Roland Smith (March 9, 1906 - May 23, 1965) was an American Abstract Expressionist sculptor best known for creating large steel abstract geometric sculptures. Born in Decatur, Indiana...

Hans Hofmann
Hans Hofmann
Artists

Hans Hofmann was a German-born American abstract expressionist painter. He was born in Weißenburg, Bavaria on March 21, 1880 the son of Theodor and Franziska Hofmann....

Philip Guston
Philip Guston
Authors, Artists

Philip Guston (June 27, 1913 – June 7, 1980) was a notable painter and printmaker in the New York School, which included many of the Abstract expressionists, such as Jackson Pollock and...

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