Abstract Expressionism

Artists by Movement:
Abstract Expressionism

Centered in New York City, 1946 to 1960's

Abstract Expressionism is a type of art in which the artist expresses himself purely through the use of form and color. It non-representational, or non-objective, art, which means that there are no actual objects represented.

Now considered to be the first American artistic movement of international importance, the term was originally used to describe the work of Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock and Arshile Gorky.

The movement can be more or less divided into two groups: Action Painting, typified by artists such as Pollock, de Kooning, Franz Kline, and Philip Guston, stressed the physical action involved in painting; Color Field Painting, practiced by Mark Rothko and Kenneth Noland, among others, was primarily concerned with exploring the effects of pure color on a canvas.

Chronological Listing of Abstract Expressionists

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Hans Hofmann	1880-1966	German/American Painter
Mark Tobey	1890-1976	American Painter
Alma Thomas	1891-1978	African-American Painter
Louise Nevelson	1899-1988	Russian/American Sculptor
Jack Tworkov	1900-1982	Polish/American Painter
Adja Yunkers	1900-1983	Latvian/American Painter
Mary Callery	1903-1977	American Sculptor
Adolph Gottlieb	1903-1974	American Painter
Alfred Jensen	1903-1981	Guatemalan/American Painter
Seymour Lipton	1903-1986	American Sculptor
Mark Rothko	1903-1970	Latvian/American Painter
Aaron Siskind	1903-1991	American Photographer
Esteban Vicente	1903-2001	Spanish/American Painter
Willem de Kooning	1904-1997	Dutch/American Painter
Jose de Rivera	1904-1985	American Sculptor
Arshile Gorky	1904-1948	Armenian/American Painter
Balcomb Greene	1904-1990	American Painter
Gertrude Greene	1904-1956	American Painter
Isamu Noguchi	1904-1988	Japanese/American Sculptor
Clyfford Still	1904-1980	American Painter
John Ferren	1905-1970	American Painter
Barnett Newman	1905-1970	American Painter
James Brooks	1906-1992	American Painter
Herbert Ferber	1906-1991	American Sculptor
David Smith	1906-1965	American Sculptor
Albert Kotin	1907-1980	Russian/American Painter
Perle Fine	1908-1988	American Painter
Lee Krasner	1908-1984	American Painter
George McNeil	1908-1995	American Painter
Jack Bush	1909-1977	Canadian Painter
Enrico Donati	1909-2008	American Painter
Norman Lewis	1909-1979	African-American Painter
Morris Graves	1910-2001	American Painter/Sculptor
Franz Kline	1910-1962	American Painter
Louise Bourgeois	1911-2010	French/American Sculptor
William Baziotes	1912-1963	American Painter
Morris Louis	1912-1962	American Painter
Roberto Matta	1912-2002	Chilean/French Painter
Jackson Pollock	1912-1956	American Painter
Lawrence Calcagno	1913-1993	American Painter
Philip Guston	1913-1980	Canadian/American Painter
Ibram Lassaw	1913-2003	American Sculptor
Conrad Marca-Relli	1913-2000	American Painter
Ad Reinhardt	1913-1967	American Painter
William Scott	1913-1989	British Painter
Alberto Burri	1915-1995	Italian Painter
Edward Dugmore	1915-1996	American Painter
Robert Motherwell	1915-1991	American Painter
Elmer Bischoff	1916-1991	American Painter
Alfonso Ossorio	1916-1990	Filipino/American Painter
Richard Pousette-Dart	1916-1992	American Painter
Nicolas Carone	1917-2010	American Painter/Sculptor
Stephen Greene	1917-1999	American Painter
David Hare	1917-1992	American Sculptor
Milton Resnick	1917-2004	Russian/American Painter
Elaine Fried de Kooning	1918-1989	American Painter
Cleve Gray	1918-2004	American Painter
Edward Corbett	1919-1971	American Painter
Lester Johnson	1919-2010	American Painter
George Morrison	1919-2000	Native American Painter/Sculptor
Gene Davis	1920-1985	American Painter
Karel Appel	1921-2006	Dutch Painter
Norman Bluhm	1921-1999	American Painter
Nell Blaine	1922-1996	American Painter
Robert de Niro Sr.	1922-1993	American Painter
Grace Hartigan	1922-2008	American Painter
Jules Olitski	1922-2007	Ukrainian/American Painter
Theodoros Stamos	1922-1997	American Painter
Sam Francis	1923-1994	American Painter
Paul Jenkins	1923-2012	American Painter
Jean Paul Riopelle	1923-2002	Canadian Painter
Richard Stankiewicz	1923-1983	American Assemblage Artist
Antoni Tapies	1923-2012	Spanish Painter
Kenneth Noland	1924-2010	American Painter
Joan Mitchell	1926-1992	American Painter
Helen Frankenthaler	1928-2011	American Painter
Al Held	1928-2005	American Painter
Rita Letendre	Born 1928	Native Canadian Painter
Cy Twombly	1928-2011	American Painter
Jasper Johns	Born 1930	American Painter/Sculptor
Raphael Collazo	1943-1990	American Painter
Joseph Marioni	Born 1943	American Painter

Artists by Movement:Abstract Expressionism

Artists by Movement:
Abstract Expressionism