Name↕ | Born↕ | Died↕ | Nationality↕ | Style↕ | Famous Work↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jackson Pollock | 1,912 | 1,956 | American | Action painting (drip) | No. 5, 1948 |
Mark Rothko | 1,903 | 1,970 | American (Latvian-born) | Color field | Orange, Red, Yellow |
Willem de Kooning | 1,904 | 1,997 | American (Dutch-born) | Action painting | Woman I |
Barnett Newman | 1,905 | 1,970 | American | Color field (zips) | Vir Heroicus Sublimis |
Clyfford Still | 1,904 | 1,980 | American | Color field | 1957-D No. 1 |
Franz Kline | 1,910 | 1,962 | American | Action painting (black and white) | Chief |
Robert Motherwell | 1,915 | 1,991 | American | Action / Color field | Elegy to the Spanish Republic |
Adolph Gottlieb | 1,903 | 1,974 | American | Burst / pictograph | Blast I |
Lee Krasner | 1,908 | 1,984 | American | Action painting | The Seasons |
Helen Frankenthaler | 1,928 | 2,011 | American | Soak-stain color field | Mountains and Sea |
Philip Guston | 1,913 | 1,980 | American (Canadian-born) | Abstract then figurative | Painting, Smoking, Eating |
Arshile Gorky | 1,904 | 1,948 | American (Armenian-born) | Biomorphic abstraction | The Liver is the Cock's Comb |
Hans Hofmann | 1,880 | 1,966 | American (German-born) | Push and pull color | The Gate |
Joan Mitchell | 1,925 | 1,992 | American | Gestural abstraction | Ladybug |
Ad Reinhardt | 1,913 | 1,967 | American | Hard-edge / monochrome | Abstract Painting (black) |
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