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The New York School (synonymous with abstract expressionist painting) was an informal group of American poet
Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry....
s, painter
Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . In art, the term describes both the act and the result, which is called a painting....
s, dance
Dance

Dance is an art form that generally refers to Motion of the body, usually rhythmic and to music, used as a form of Emotional expression, social social interaction or presented in a spirituality or performance setting....
rs, and musician
Musician

A musician is a person who plays or writes music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music:* An instrumentalist plays a musical instrument....
s active in the 1950s, 1960s in New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
. The poets, painters, composers, dancers, and musicians often drew inspiration from Surrealism
Surrealism

Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early-1920s, and is best known for the visual artworks and writings of the group members....
 and the contemporary avant-garde
Avant-garde

Avant-garde means "advance guard" or "vanguard". The adjective form is used in English, to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics....
 art movements, in particular action painting
Action painting

Action painting, sometimes called "gestural abstraction", is a style of painting in which paint is spontaneously dribbled, splashed or smeared onto the canvas, rather than being carefully applied....
, abstract expressionism
Abstract expressionism

Abstract expressionism was an American post?World War II art movement. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve worldwide influence and also the one that put New York City at the center of the art world, a role formerly filled by Paris....
, Jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
, improvisational theater, experimental music
Experimental music

Experimental music refers, in the English-language literature, to a compositional tradition which arose in the mid-twentieth century, particularly in North America, and whose most famous and influential exponent was John Cage ....
, and the interaction of friends in the New York City art world's vanguard circle
Avant-garde

Avant-garde means "advance guard" or "vanguard". The adjective form is used in English, to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics....
.
erning the New York School poets, critics argued that their work was a reaction to the Confessionalist movement in Contemporary Poetry.






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The New York School (synonymous with abstract expressionist painting) was an informal group of American poet
Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry....
s, painter
Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . In art, the term describes both the act and the result, which is called a painting....
s, dance
Dance

Dance is an art form that generally refers to Motion of the body, usually rhythmic and to music, used as a form of Emotional expression, social social interaction or presented in a spirituality or performance setting....
rs, and musician
Musician

A musician is a person who plays or writes music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music:* An instrumentalist plays a musical instrument....
s active in the 1950s, 1960s in New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
. The poets, painters, composers, dancers, and musicians often drew inspiration from Surrealism
Surrealism

Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early-1920s, and is best known for the visual artworks and writings of the group members....
 and the contemporary avant-garde
Avant-garde

Avant-garde means "advance guard" or "vanguard". The adjective form is used in English, to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics....
 art movements, in particular action painting
Action painting

Action painting, sometimes called "gestural abstraction", is a style of painting in which paint is spontaneously dribbled, splashed or smeared onto the canvas, rather than being carefully applied....
, abstract expressionism
Abstract expressionism

Abstract expressionism was an American post?World War II art movement. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve worldwide influence and also the one that put New York City at the center of the art world, a role formerly filled by Paris....
, Jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
, improvisational theater, experimental music
Experimental music

Experimental music refers, in the English-language literature, to a compositional tradition which arose in the mid-twentieth century, particularly in North America, and whose most famous and influential exponent was John Cage ....
, and the interaction of friends in the New York City art world's vanguard circle
Avant-garde

Avant-garde means "advance guard" or "vanguard". The adjective form is used in English, to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics....
.

The Poets

Concerning the New York School poets, critics argued that their work was a reaction to the Confessionalist movement in Contemporary Poetry. Their poetic subject matter was often light, violent, or observational, while their writing style was often described as cosmopolitan and world-traveled. The poets often wrote in a direct, and immediate, spontaneous, manner reminiscent of word/paintings, and stream of consciousness writing, often using vivid, and visual imagery. They drew on inspiration from Surrealism
Surrealism

Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early-1920s, and is best known for the visual artworks and writings of the group members....
 and the contemporary avant-garde
Avant-garde

Avant-garde means "advance guard" or "vanguard". The adjective form is used in English, to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics....
 art movements, in particular the action painting
Action painting

Action painting, sometimes called "gestural abstraction", is a style of painting in which paint is spontaneously dribbled, splashed or smeared onto the canvas, rather than being carefully applied....
 of their friends in the New York City art world circle like Jackson Pollock
Jackson Pollock

Paul Jackson Pollock was an influential American painter and a major force in the abstract expressionism movement. In October 1945, he married the artist Lee Krasner....
 and Willem de Kooning
Willem de Kooning

Willem de Kooning was an abstract expressionist artist, born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.In the post-World War II era, de Kooning painted in a style that came to be referred to variously as Abstract expressionism, Action painting, and the New York School....
.

Poets most often associated with the New York School are John Ashbery
John Ashbery

John Ashbery is an American poet. He has won nearly every major American award for poetry and is recognized as one of America's most important, though still controversial, poets....
, Frank O'Hara
Frank O'Hara

Francis Russell O'Hara was an Poetry of the United States who, along with John Ashbery, James Schuyler, Barbara Guest and Kenneth Koch, was a key member of what was known as the New York School of poetry....
, Kenneth Koch
Kenneth Koch

Kenneth Koch was an United States poet, playwright, and professor, active from the 1950s until his death at age 77. He was a prominent poet of the New York School of poetry, a loose group of poets including Frank O'Hara and John Ashbery that eschewed contemporary introspective poetry in favor of an exuberant, cosmopolitan style that drew ma...
, James Schuyler
James Schuyler

James Marcus Schuyler was a major United States poet in the late 20th century. He was a central figure in the New York School and is often associated with fellow New York School of poets, John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, Kenneth Koch, and Barbara Guest....
, Barbara Guest
Barbara Guest

Barbara Guest n?e Barbara Ann Pinson was an American poet and critic most often associated with the New York School.Born in Wilmington, North Carolina and raised in California, Guest earned a B.A....
, Ted Berrigan
Ted Berrigan

Ted Berrigan was an American poet....
, Bernadette Mayer, Alice Notley
Alice Notley

Alice Notley is an United States poet. She was born in Bisbee, Arizona and grew up in Needles, California. She received a B.A from Barnard College in 1967 and an M.F.A....
, Kenward Elmslie
Kenward Elmslie

Kenward Gray Elmslie is an American writer, performer, editor and publisher associated with the New York School of poetry.Born in New York City, Elmslie spent his childhood in Colorado Springs, Colorado, prepped at the St....
, Ron Padgett
Ron Padgett

'Ron Padgett' is an American poet, essayist, fiction writer, translator, and a member of the New York School. His books include: Great Balls of Fire, The Adventures of Mr....
, and Joseph Ceravolo
Joseph Ceravolo

Joseph Ceravolo was an American poet associated with the second generation of the New York School. Most of Ceravolo?s work is out of print and his popularity is limited to the community of writers....
.

O'Hara was at the center of the group before his death in 1966. His numerous friendships and post as a curator at the Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, USA, on 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues....
, he provided connections between the poets and painters like Jane Freilicher, Fairfield Porter
Fairfield Porter

Fairfield Porter was an United States painting and Art criticism. He was the brother of photographer Eliot Porter and the brother-in-law of federal United States Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Michael W....
 and Larry Rivers
Larry Rivers

Larry Rivers was a Jewish American artist, musician, filmmaker and occasional actor. Rivers resided and maintained studios in New York City, Southampton, New York on and Zihuatanejo, Mexico....
 (also his lover). There were many joint works and collaborations: Rivers inspired a play by Koch, Koch and Ashbery together wrote the poem "A Postcard to Popeye", Ashbery and Schuyler wrote the novel A Nest of Ninnies, and Schuyler collaborated on an ode with O'Hara, whose portrait was painted by Rivers.

Although they admired each other, the poets Koch, O'Hara, Schuyler and Ashbery were quite different as poets, yet they had much in common personally:

  • Except for Schuyler, all overlapped at Harvard University
    Harvard University

    Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States, and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1636 by the colonial Massachusetts legislature, Harvard is the Colonial Colleges institution of higher learning in the United States....
    ,
  • Except for Koch, all were homosexual,
  • Except for Ashbery, all did military service,
  • Except for Koch, all reviewed art,
  • Except for Ashbery, who soon moved to Paris
    Paris

    Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
    , all lived in New York during their formative years as poets.


All four were inspired by French Surrealists
Surrealism

Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early-1920s, and is best known for the visual artworks and writings of the group members....
 like Raymond Roussel
Raymond Roussel

Raymond Roussel was a France poet, novelist, playwright, musician, and chess enthusiast. Through his novels, poems, and plays he exerted a profound influence on certain groups within French literature of the 20th century, including the Surrealists, Oulipo, and the authors of the nouveau roman....
, Pierre Reverdy
Pierre Reverdy

Pierre Reverdy was a French people poet associated with surrealism and cubism.Pierre Reverdy was born in Narbonne and grew up near the Montagne Noire in his father's house....
 and Guillaume Apollinaire
Guillaume Apollinaire

Wilhelm Albert Wlodzimierz Apolinary de Waz-Kostrowicki, known as Guillaume Apollinaire was a France poet, writer, and art critic born in Italy to a Polish mother....
. David Lehman, in his book on the New York poets, wrote, "They favored wit, humor and the advanced irony of the blague (that is, the insolent prank or jest) in ways more suggestive of Jasper Johns
Jasper Johns

File:Jasper Johns's 'Map', 1961.jpgJasper Johns, Jr. is a contemporary American artist who works primarily in painting and printmaking. He is represented by the Matthew Marks Gallery....
 and Robert Rauschenberg
Robert Rauschenberg

Robert Rauschenberg was an American artist who came to prominence in the 1950s transition from Abstract Expressionism to Pop Art. Rauschenberg is perhaps most famous for his "Combines" of the 1950s, in which non-traditional materials and objects were employed in innovative combinations....
 than of the New York School abstract expressionist
Abstract expressionism

Abstract expressionism was an American post?World War II art movement. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve worldwide influence and also the one that put New York City at the center of the art world, a role formerly filled by Paris....
 painters after whom they were named."

The Beats

There are also commonalities between the New York School and the members of the beat generation
Beat generation

The Beat Generation is a term used to describe a group of American writers who came to prominence in the 1950s, and also the cultural phenomena that they wrote about and inspired ....
 poets also active in 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s New York City. Including Gregory Corso
Gregory Corso

Gregory Nunzio Corso was an United States poet, youngest of the inner circle of Beat Generation writers ....
, Allen Ginsberg
Allen Ginsberg

Irwin Allen Ginsberg was an United States poet. Ginsberg is best known for the poem "Howl" , celebrating his friends who were members of the Beat Generation and attacking what he saw as the destructive forces of materialism and conformity in the United States....
, Amiri Baraka
Amiri Baraka

Amiri Baraka, formerly known as Leroi Jones, is an American writer of poetry, drama, essays, and music criticism....
, Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac was an American author, poet and Painting. Alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, he is considered a pioneer of the Beat Generation....
, William S. Burroughs
William S. Burroughs

William Seward Burroughs II was an United States novelist, essayist, social critic, Painting and spoken word performer.Much of Burroughs's work is semi-autobiographical, drawn from his experiences as an opiate addict, a condition that marked the last fifty years of his life....
, Diane di Prima
Diane di Prima

Diane Di Prima is an American poet....
, Diane Wakoski
Diane Wakoski

Diane Wakoski is an United States poetry poet who is associated with the "deep image" poets, and to a lesser degree, the "confessional" and Beat generation poets of the 1960s....
, Anne Waldman
Anne Waldman

Anne Waldman is an United States poetry.Since the 1960s, Waldman has been an active member of the ?Outrider? experimental poetry community as a writer, performer, collaborator, professor, editor, scholar, and cultural/political activist....
, Tuli Kupferberg
Tuli Kupferberg

Tuli Kupferberg is an United States counterculture poet, author, cartoonist, pacifist anarchist, publisher and co-founder of the band The Fugs....
, Ed Sanders
Ed Sanders

Ed Sanders is an United States poet, singer, social activist, environmentalist, author and publisher. He has been called a bridge between the Beat generation and Hippie generations....
, Norris Embry
Norris Embry

Norris Embry was an American artist born on January 14, 1921 in Louisville, Kentucky.He grew up in East Orange, New Jersey outside New York City and Evanston, Illinois in the Chicago area, attending public schools through high school....
, and several others. Many of the poets, including Koch, Ashberry, Ginsberg, and Kerouac attended Columbia University.

The Composers

The term also refers to a circle of composers in the 1950s who orbited around John Cage
John Cage

John Milton Cage Jr. was an American composer. A pioneer of Aleatoric music, electronic music and Extended technique, Cage was one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde and, in the opinion of many, the most influential American composer of the 20th century....
: Morton Feldman
Morton Feldman

Morton Feldman was an American composer, born in New York City.A major figure in 20th century music, Feldman went through several compositional phases....
, Earle Brown
Earle Brown

Earle Brown was an American composer. Among his many innovations, he near-singlehandedly re-invigorated classical music with improvisation by establishing his own formal and notational systems....
 and Christian Wolff
Christian Wolff

Christian Wolff may refer to:* Christian Wolff , German philosopher and mathematician* Christian Wolff , American composer of experimental classical music...
. Their music paralleled the music and events of the Fluxus
Fluxus

Fluxus?a name taken from a Latin word meaning "to flow"?is an international network of artists, composers and designers noted for blending different artistic media and disciplines in the 1960s....
 group, and drew its name from the Abstract Expressionist
Abstract expressionism

Abstract expressionism was an American post?World War II art movement. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve worldwide influence and also the one that put New York City at the center of the art world, a role formerly filled by Paris....
 painters above. What brought these artists together was a faith in the liberation of the unconscious and an excitement drawn from the street energies of Manhattan
Manhattan

Manhattan is one of the five borough of New York City, located primarily on Manhattan Island at the mouth of the Hudson River.With a United States Census of 1,620,867 living in a land area of 22.96 square miles , Manhattan, coextensive with New York County, is the most population density county in the United States, w...
. In the 1960s the work of the avant-garde
Avant-garde

Avant-garde means "advance guard" or "vanguard". The adjective form is used in English, to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics....
 Minimalist
Minimalism

Minimalism describes movements in various forms of art and design, especially visual art and Minimalist music, where the work is stripped down to its most fundamental features....
 composers La Monte Young
La Monte Young

La Monte Thornton Young is an United States composer and musician.Young is generally recognized as the first minimalism composer, and one of the four most celebrated leaders of the minimalist school, along with Terry Riley, Steve Reich and Philip Glass, despite having little in common formally with Glass or Reich....
, Philip Glass
Philip Glass

Philip Glass is an American music composer. He is considered one of the most influential composers of the late-20th century and is widely acknowledged as a composer who has brought art music to the public ....
, Tony Conrad
Tony Conrad

Tony Conrad is an American avant-garde video artist, experimental filmmaker, musician/composer, sound artist, teacher and writer. His father was Arthur Conrad, who worked with Everett Warner during World War II in designing dazzle camouflage for the US Navy....
, Steve Reich
Steve Reich

File:Steve Reich2.jpgStephen Michael Reich is an United States composer who pioneered the style of minimalist music. His innovations include using tape loops to create phasing patterns , and the use of simple, audible processes to explore musical concepts ....
, and Terry Riley
Terry Riley

Terry Riley is an American composer associated with the minimalism school....
 became prominent in the New York
New York

The State of New York is a U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States and is the nation's List of U.S....
 art world.

The Dancers

During the 1960s the Judson Dance Theater
Judson Dance Theater

Judson Dance Theater was an informal group of dancers who performed at the Judson Memorial Church, New York between 1962 and 1964. The group of artists that formed Judson Dance Theater are considered the founders of Postmodern dance....
 located at the Judson Memorial Church
Judson Memorial Church

The Judson Memorial Church is located in Greenwich Village of Manhattan on the south side of Washington Square Park. It is affiliated with the American Baptist Churches USA and with the United Church of Christ....
, New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
, revolutionized Modern dance
Modern dance

File:Two dancers.jpgModern dance is a dance form developed in the early 20th century. Although the term Modern dance has also been applied to a category of 20th Century ballroom dances, Modern dance as a term usually refers to 20th century concert dance....
. Combining in new ways the idea of Performance art
Performance art

Performance art is art in which the actions of an individual or a group at a particular place and in a particular time constitute the work. It can happen anywhere, at any time, or for any length of time....
, radical and new Choreography
Choreography

Choreography , is the art of making structures in which movement occurs. The term dance composition may also refer to the navigation or connection of these movement structures....
, sound from avant-garde
Avant-garde

Avant-garde means "advance guard" or "vanguard". The adjective form is used in English, to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics....
 composers, and dancers in collaboration with several New York School Visual artists
Visual arts

The visual arts are Art#Art forms that focus on the creation of works which are primarily visual in nature, such as drawing, painting, photography, printmaking, and filmmaking....
. The group of artists that formed Judson Dance Theater are considered the founders of Postmodern dance
Postmodern dance

Postmodern dance is a 20th century concert dance form. A reaction to the compositional and presentation constraints of modern dance, postmodern dance hailed the use of everyday movement as valid performance art and advocated novel methods of dance composition ....
. The theater grew out of a dance composition class taught by Robert Dunn, a musician who had studied with John Cage
John Cage

John Milton Cage Jr. was an American composer. A pioneer of Aleatoric music, electronic music and Extended technique, Cage was one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde and, in the opinion of many, the most influential American composer of the 20th century....
. The artists involved with Judson Dance Theater were avant-garde experimenatalists who rejected the confines of Modern dance practice and theory.

The first Judson concert took place on July 6, 1962, with dance works presented by Steve Paxton, Freddie Herko
Freddie Herko

Frederick Charles Herko was an artist, musician, actor, dancer, choreographer and teacher. He studied piano at the Juilliard School and classical ballet under Valentina Pereyaslavec at the American Ballet Theater School....
, David Gordon, Alex and Deborah Hay, Yvonne Rainer, Elaine Summers, William Davis, and Ruth Emerson. Seminal dance artists that were a part of the Judson Dance Theater include: David Gordon, Steve Paxton
Steve Paxton

Steve Paxton is an experimental dancer and choreographer. His early background was in gymnastics while his later training included three years with Merce Cunningham and a year with Jos? Lim?n....
, Yvonne Rainer
Yvonne Rainer

Yvonne Rainer is an United States choreography and film director, whose work in both disciplines is frequently challenging and experimental....
,Trisha Brown
Trisha Brown

Trisha Brown is a postmodernist American choreographer and dancer.Brown was born in Aberdeen, Washington, and received a Bachelor of Arts academic degree in dance from Mills College in 1958....
, Lucinda Childs, Deborah Hay, Simone Forti, Elaine Summers
Elaine Summers

Elaine Summers United States choreographer, experimental filmmaker, and intermedia pioneer.Summers was a founding member of the workshop-group that would form the Judson Dance Theater and significantly contributed to the interaction of film and dance, as well as the expansion of dance into other related disciplines, such as visual art, film...
, Sally Gross, Aileen Passloff, and Meredith Monk
Meredith Monk

Meredith Jane Monk is an United States composer, performer, director, vocalist, film-maker, and choreographer. Since the 1960s, Monk has created multi-disciplinary works which dwell in the spaces between music, theatre, and dance: "I work in between the cracks, where the voice starts dancing, where the body starts singing, where theater beco...
. The years 1962 to 1964 are considered the golden age of the Judson Dance Theater.

During the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s New York School artists collaborated with several other choreographer
Choreography

Choreography , is the art of making structures in which movement occurs. The term dance composition may also refer to the navigation or connection of these movement structures....
 / dance
Dance

Dance is an art form that generally refers to Motion of the body, usually rhythmic and to music, used as a form of Emotional expression, social social interaction or presented in a spirituality or performance setting....
rs including: Merce Cunningham
Merce Cunningham

Merce Cunningham is an American dancer and choreography....
, Martha Graham
Martha Graham

Martha Graham was an American dancer and choreographer regarded as one of the foremost pioneers of modern dance, whose influence on dance can be compared to the influence Igor Stravinsky had on music, Pablo Picasso had on the visual arts, or Frank Lloyd Wright had on architecture....
, and Paul Taylor
Paul Taylor

Paul Taylor is one of the foremost United States choreographers of the 20th century.He was born in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, and attended Syracuse University , where he first took up dance....
.

Jazz

The new Bebop
Bebop

Bebop or bop is a form of jazz characterized by fast tempos and improvisation based on harmonic structure rather than melody. It was developed in the early and mid-1940s....
 and cool jazz
Cool jazz

During the Second World War, there was an influx of Californian jazz musicians to New York. Once there, these musicians mixed with the mostly black bebop musicians, but were also strongly influenced by the "smooth" sound of saxophonist Lester Young....
 musicians in the 1940s and 1950s featuring Charlie Parker
Charlie Parker

Charles Parker, Jr. was an American jazz saxophonist and composer.Parker is widely considered one of the most influential of jazz musicians, along with Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington....
, Miles Davis
Miles Davis

Miles Dewey Davis III was an United States jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Davis was at the forefront of almost every major development in jazz from World War II to the 1990s: he played on various early bebop records and recorded one of the first cool jaz...
, Max Roach
Max Roach

Maxwell Lemuel Roach was an American jazz percussionist, drummer, and composer.A pioneer of bebop, Roach went on to work in many other styles of music, and is generally considered one of the most important drummers in history....
, Dizzy Gillespie
Dizzy Gillespie

John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie [/g?'l?spi/] was an United States jazz trumpeter, bandleader, singer, and composer. He was born in Cheraw, South Carolina, the youngest of nine children....
, Thelonious Monk
Thelonious Monk

Thelonious Sphere Monk was an American jazz pianist and composer.Widely considered one of the most important musicians in jazz -- he is one of only three jazz musicians to be featured on the cover of Time magazine -- Monk had a unique improvisational style and made numerous contributions to the standard jazz repertoire, including "Epi...
, Charles Mingus
Charles Mingus

Charles Mingus was an United States jazz bassist, composer, bandleader, and occasional pianist. He was also known for his activism against racism....
, Cannonball Adderley, John Coltrane
John Coltrane

John William Coltrane was an United States jazz saxophonist and composer.Starting in bebop and hard bop, Coltrane later pioneered free jazz. He influenced generations of other musicians, and remains one of the most significant tenor saxophonists in jazz history....
, Stan Getz
Stan Getz

Stanley Gayetzky or Stanley Gayetsky , usually known by his stage name Stan Getz, was an American jazz saxophone player. Known as "The Sound" because of his warm, lyrical tone, Getz's prime influence was the wispy, mellow tone of his idol, Lester Young....
, Ahmad Jamal
Ahmad Jamal

Ahmad Jamal on July 2, 1930, is a noted United States jazz pianist. Jamal was one of Miles Davis's favorite pianists and was a key influence on the trumpeter's "First Great Quintet" ....
, Gerry Mulligan
Gerry Mulligan

Gerald Joseph "Gerry" Mulligan was an United States jazz saxophonist, composer and arrangement.Though Mulligan is primarily known as one of the leading baritone saxophone in jazz history - playing the instrument with a light and airy tone in the era of cool jazz - he was also a notable arranger, working with Claude Thornhill, Miles Davis,...
, Dave Brubeck
Dave Brubeck

David Warren Brubeck , better known as Dave Brubeck, is an United States Jazz piano. Regarded as a jazz icon, he has written a number of jazz standards, including "In Your Own Sweet Way" and "The Duke"....
, and many other great Jazz musicians set the tone for the New York School and Abstract expressionism
Abstract expressionism

Abstract expressionism was an American post?World War II art movement. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve worldwide influence and also the one that put New York City at the center of the art world, a role formerly filled by Paris....
. Later new jazz musicians like Archie Shepp
Archie Shepp

Archie Shepp is a prominent American jazz saxophonist. Shepp is best known for his passionately Afrocentrism music of the late 1960s which focused on highlighting the injustices faced by the African Race , as well as for his work with the New York Contemporary Five, Horace Parlan, and his collaborations with his "New Thing" contemporaries,...
, Ornette Coleman
Ornette Coleman

Ornette Coleman is an United States saxophoneist, violinist, trumpeter and composer. He was one of the major innovators of the free jazz movement of the 1950s and 1960s....
, Rahsaan Roland Kirk
Rahsaan Roland Kirk

Rahsaan Roland Kirk was an United States jazz multi-instrumentalist who played tenor saxophone, flute and many other instruments. He was perhaps best known for his vitality on stage, where virtuoso improvisation was accompanied by comic banter, political ranting and his famous ability to play a number of instruments simultaneously....
, Pharoah Sanders
Pharoah Sanders

Pharoah Sanders is an United States jazz saxophonist. Ornette Coleman once described him as "probably the best tenor player in the world." Emerging from John Coltrane's groups of the mid-60s Sanders is known for his overblowing, harmonic, and multiphonic techniques on the saxophone, as well as his use of "sheets of sound." Albert Ayler fa...
, the evolving Miles Davis
Miles Davis

Miles Dewey Davis III was an United States jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Davis was at the forefront of almost every major development in jazz from World War II to the 1990s: he played on various early bebop records and recorded one of the first cool jaz...
, and John Coltrane
John Coltrane

John William Coltrane was an United States jazz saxophonist and composer.Starting in bebop and hard bop, Coltrane later pioneered free jazz. He influenced generations of other musicians, and remains one of the most significant tenor saxophonists in jazz history....
 created the sounds for the new and more cool Hard-edge
Hard-edge painting

Hard-edge painting is painting in which abrupt transitions are found between color areas. Color areas are often of one unvarying color. Color transitions often take place along straight lines, though curvilinear edges of color areas are also common....
 painters, Minimal
Minimalism

Minimalism describes movements in various forms of art and design, especially visual art and Minimalist music, where the work is stripped down to its most fundamental features....
 artists, Color Field
Color Field

Color Field painting is a style of abstract painting that emerged in New York City during the 1940s and 1950s. Inspired by European modernism and closely related to Abstract Expressionism with many of its important early proponents being among the pioneering Abstract Expressionists....
 painters, Lyrical Abstraction
Lyrical Abstraction

Lyrical Abstraction refers to two related but distinctly separate movements in Post-war Modernist painting.European Lyrical Abstraction is an art movement born in Paris after World War II....
ists, and Pop
Pop art

Pop art is a visual art movement that emerged in the mid 1950s in UK and in the late 1950s in the United States. Pop art challenged tradition by asserting that an artist's use of the mass-produced visual commodities of popular culture is contiguous with the perspective of Fine Art since Pop removes the material from its context and isolates...
 artists of the 1960s.

New York School abstract expressionists of the 1950s

The New York School which represented the New York
New York

The State of New York is a U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States and is the nation's List of U.S....
 abstract expressionists
Abstract expressionism

Abstract expressionism was an American post?World War II art movement. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve worldwide influence and also the one that put New York City at the center of the art world, a role formerly filled by Paris....
 of the 1950s was documented through a series of artists' committee
Committee

A committee is a type of small deliberative assembly that is usually intended to remain subordinate to another, larger deliberative assembly—which when organized so that action on committee requires a vote by all its entitled members, is called the "Committee of the Whole"....
 invitational exhibitions
Art exhibition

Art exhibitions are traditionally the space in which art objects meet an audience. The exhibit is universally understood to be for some temporary period unless, as is rarely true, it is stated to be a "permanent exhibition"....
 commencing with the 9th Street Art Exhibition in 1951 and followed by consecutive exhibitions at the Stable Gallery, NYC: Second Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, 1953; Third Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, 1954; Fourth Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, 1955; Fifth Annual Exhibitions of Painting and Sculpture, 1956 and Sixth New York Artists’ Annual Exhibition, 1957.

Complete List of Artists' Participation in the New York Painting and Sculpture Annuals, 1951-1957


A

  • Herb Aach (1923–1985)
  • Mary Abbott (1921-)
  • Ruth Abrams (NA)
  • Patricia Adams *Peter Agostini (1913–1993)
  • Josef Albers
    Josef Albers

    Josef Albers was a Germany-born United States artist and educator whose work, both in Europe and in the United States, formed the basis of some of the most influential and far-reaching art education programs of the 20th century....
     (1888–1976)
  • Calvin Albert (1918–2007)
  • Olga Albizu
    Olga Albizu

    Olga Albizu, was an abstract expressionist Painting. She was born and raised in Puerto Rico, where she studied painting with the Spanish painter Esteban Vicente from 1943 till 1947....
     (1924–2005)
  • Alfred L. Copley
    Alfred L. Copley

    Alfred Lewin Copley was a Germany-United States medical scientist and an artist at the New York School in the 1950s. As an artist he worked under the name L....
     (1910–1992)
  • Anderson (NA)
  • Andrews (NA)
  • Anne Arnold (1925-)
  • Ruth Asawa (1926-)
  • Elise Asher (1914–2004)
  • Milton Avery
    Milton Avery

    Milton Avery was an United States Modern art Painting. Although born in Altmar, New York, he moved to Connecticut in 1898 and later to New York City....
     (1885–1965)


B

  • Alice Baber
    Alice Baber

    Alice Baber was an United States abstract expressionist painter who worked in oils and watercolor.Alice was born in Charleston, Illinois. She grew up in Kansas, Illinois and Miami, Florida, her family traveled south to Florida yearly because of Alice poor health....
     (1928–1982)
  • William Baziotes
    William Baziotes

    William Baziotes was an United States painter influenced by Surrealism and was a contributor to Abstract Expressionism.Born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania to Greek parents, Baziotes began his formal art training in 1933 at the National Academy of Design in New York City....
     (1912 – 1963)
  • Robert Beauchamp (1923–1995)
  • Rosemarie Beck (1925-)
  • Benn Ben (1884–1983)
  • J. Benton (NA)
  • Janice Biala (1903–2000)
  • Nell Blaine (1922–1996)
  • Ilya Bolotowsky
    Ilya Bolotowsky

    Ilya Bolotowsky became a leading early 20th-century painter in abstract styles in New York City. His work, a search for philosophical order through visual expression, embraced Cubism and Geometric abstraction and was much influenced by Dutch painter Piet Mondrian....
     (1907–1981)
  • Cameron Booth (1892–1980)
  • Rene Bouche (1906–1963)
  • Louise Bourgeois
    Louise Bourgeois

    Louise Bourgeois is an artist and sculptor. Her most famous works are possibly the spider structures, titled Maman, from the last dozen years....
     (1911-)
  • Paul Brach
    Paul Brach

    Paul Brach, Born March 13 1924 in New York City and he died November 16 2007 in Easthampton, New York. Paul Brach was primarily known as an United States Abstract art Painting and as a lecturer and educator....
     (1924–2007)
  • Theodore Brenson (1893–1959)
  • Ernest Briggs (1923–1984)
  • Gandy Brodie (1925–1975)
  • James Brooks
    James Brooks (painter)

    BiographyJames Brooks was an American muralist, abstract painter and winner of the Logan Medal of the arts. Brooks was a friend of Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner on Eastern Long Island....
     (1906–1992)
  • Daniel Brustlein (Alain) (1904–1996)
  • Fritz Bultman (1919–1985)
  • Peter Busa (1914–1985)
  • John Button
    John Button

    John Norman Button was an Australian politician, who served as a senior minister in the Bob Hawke and Paul Keating Australian Labor Party governments....
     (1929–1982)


C

  • Charles Cajori (1921-)
  • Gretna Campbell (1922–1987)
  • M. Carles (NA)
  • Nicolas Carone
    Nicolas Carone

    Nicolas Carone 1917 belonged to the early generation of New York School Abstract Expressionist artists whose artistic innovation by the 1950s had been recognized across the Atlantic, including Paris....
     (1917-)
  • Giorgio Cavallon (1904–1989)
  • Bernard Chaet (1924-)
  • Chase (NA)
  • Herman Cherry (1909–1992)
  • Carmen Cicero (1926-)
  • Robert F. Conover (1920–1998)
  • Edward Corbett (1919–1971)
  • Joseph Cornell
    Joseph Cornell

    Joseph Cornell was an United States artist and sculptor, one of the pioneers and most celebrated exponents of Assemblage . Influenced by the Surrealists, he was also an avant-garde experimental filmmaker....
     (1903–1972)
  • Martin Craig (1906-)
  • Rollin Crampton (1896–1970)
  • Jane Crawford (NA)
  • Hubert Crehan (NA)
  • Ben Cunningham (painter)|Ben Cunningham (1904–1975)


D

  • Nanno de Groot (1913–1963)
  • Dorothy Dehner
    Dorothy Dehner

    Dorothy Dehner was an United States sculptor. Her work is included in the collections of the National Museum of Women in the Arts and the Smithsonian American Art Museum....
     (1901–1994)
  • Elaine de Kooning
    Elaine de Kooning

    Elaine Marie de Kooning , was an Abstract Expressionism Painting and a vibrant figure in the New York School. She was born Elaine Marie Fried in Brooklyn, New York, USA....
     (1918-(1989)
  • Willem de Kooning
    Willem de Kooning

    Willem de Kooning was an abstract expressionist artist, born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.In the post-World War II era, de Kooning painted in a style that came to be referred to variously as Abstract expressionism, Action painting, and the New York School....
     (1904–1997)
  • Robert De Niro, Sr.
    Robert De Niro, Sr.

    Robert Mario De Niro, Sr. was an American abstract expressionist List of painters by name and the father of actor Robert De Niro....
     (1922–1993)
  • Jose de Rivera (1904–1985)
  • Edwin Dickinson
    Edwin Dickinson

    Edwin Dickinson was an United States painter and draftsman known for his psychologically charged self-portraits and landscape arts. His art, always grounded in Realism , shows connections to symbolism and Surrealism ....
     (1891–1978)
  • Burgoyne Diller
    Burgoyne Diller

    Burgoyne A. Diller was an American abstract painter. Many of his best-known works are characterized by Orthogonal#Art_and_architecture geometric forms that reflect his strong interest in the De Stijl movement and the work of Piet Mondrian in particular....
     (1906–1965)
  • Lois Dodd (1927-)
  • Enrico Donati
    Enrico Donati

    Enrico Donati was an American Surrealist painter and sculptor of Italy birth....
     (1909–2008)
  • Edward Dugmore (1915–1996)
  • Friedel Dzubas
    Friedel Dzubas

    Friedel Dzubas . He was an abstract painter....
     (1915–1994)


E

  • Thomas Brownell Eldred (1903–1993)
  • Arthur Elias (1925-)
  • Jimmy Ernst
    Jimmy Ernst

    Jimmy Ernst was an American painter born in Germany.He was the son of surrealist painter Max Ernst and Luise Straus. When he was just two years old, his parents divorced, Jimmy staying with his mother....
     (1920–1984)


F

  • Fred Farr (1914–1973)
  • Sam L. Feinstein (1915-)
  • Herbert Ferber
    Herbert Ferber

    Herbert Ferber was an American sculptor and painter, born in New York City. He began his independent artistic studies in New York in 1926 at evening classes at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design, while attending Columbia University Dental School....
     (1906–1991)
  • John Ferren (1905–1970)
  • Fick (NA)
  • Perle Fine (1908–1988)
  • Louis Finkelstein
    Louis Finkelstein (artist)

    Louis Finkelstein was an United States Painting and professor at Queens College, City University of New York. Several of his works have been compared to those of French artist and Post-Impressionism painter Paul C?zanne ....
     (1923–2000)
  • Joe Fiore (1925-)
  • Ida Fischer (1883–1956)
  • Fitzsimmons (NA)
  • Audrey Flack (1931-)
  • Jean Follet (1917–1991)
  • Miles Forst (1914-)
  • Helen Frankenthaler
    Helen Frankenthaler

    Helen Frankenthaler is an United States post-painterly abstraction artist. Born in New York City, she was influenced by Jackson Pollock's paintings and by Clement Greenberg....
     (1928-)
  • Seymour Frankes (NA)
  • Jane Freilicher (1924-)
  • Syd Fromboluti (1920-)


G

  • Sidney Geist (1914–2005)
  • William Getman (1916–1972)
  • Ilse Getz (1917–1992)
  • Joe Giordano
  • Julio Girona (1914-)
  • Fritz Glarner (1899–1972)
  • Joseph M. Glasco (1925–1996)
  • Michael Goldberg
    Michael Goldberg

    Michael Goldberg was an American abstract expressionism Painting and teacher known for his gestural action paintings, abstractions and still-life paintings....
     (Stuart) (1924–2007)
  • Sam Goodman (N/A)
  • Robert Goodnough (1917-)
  • Sidney Gordin (1918–1996)
  • Adolph Gottlieb
    Adolph Gottlieb

    Adolph Gottlieb was an United States abstract expressionist Painting and sculptor....
     (1903–1974)
  • John D. Graham
    John D. Graham

    John D. Graham was a Russian-born United States Modernist / figurative painter.He was born Ivan Gratianovitch Dombrowsky in Kiev, Ukraine. He attended law school and served in the Circassian Regiment of the Russian army, earned the Saint George's Cross during World War I, and was imprisoned as a counterrevolutionary by the Bolsheviks after...
     (1886–1961)
  • Balcomb Greene (1904–1990)
  • Gertrude G. Green (1904–1956)
  • Clement Greenberg
    Clement Greenberg

    Clement Greenberg was an influential United States art critic closely associated with Modern art in the United States. In particular, he militant critic the Abstract Expressionism movement and was among the first critics to praise the work of painter Jackson Pollock....
     (1909–1994)
  • John Grillo (1917-)
  • Peter Grippe (1912-)
  • Salvatore Grippi (1921-)
  • Joseph Groell (NA)
  • Jose Guerrero (1914–1992)
  • Philip Guston
    Philip Guston

    Philip Guston was a notable painter and printmaker in the New York School, which included many of the Abstract Expressionism, such as Jackson Pollock and Willem De Kooning....
     (1913–1980)


H

  • Ruth Hageman (NA)
  • Raoul Hague (1905–1993)
  • David Hare
    David Hare (artist)

    David Hare was an United States artist, associated with the Surrealism movement. He is primarily known for his sculpture, though he also worked extensively in photography and painting....
     (1917–1992)
  • Grace Hartigan
    Grace Hartigan

    Grace Hartigan was an American Abstract Expressionism painter of the New York School in the 1950s....
     (1922-)
  • Fred Hauck (1905–1960)
  • Sally Hazelet (1924-)
  • Raymond Hendler (1923–1998)
  • Emil John Hess (1913-)
  • Clinton Hill (1922-)
  • Hans Hofmann
    Hans Hofmann

    Hans Hofmann was a German-born American abstract expressionism painter. He was born in Wei?enburg in Bayern, Bavaria on March 21, 1880 the son of Theodor and Franziska Hofmann....
     (1880–1966)
  • Charles Hodges (artist) (NA)
  • John Hultberg (1922–2005)


I

  • Angelo Ippolito (1922–2002)
  • Richard Ireland
    Richard Ireland

    Richard Ireland was perhaps the first of his kind to pioneer the demonstration of Psychic phenomena on television, starting in the early 1960's, on programs such as Joe Pyne, Alan Burke, and the Steve Allen show....
     (1925-)
  • Ben Isquith (N/A)
  • Domingo Izquierdo (1931-)


J

  • Harry Jackson (artist)|Harry Jackson (1924-)
  • Alfred Jensen (1903–1981)
  • Ben Johnson
    Ben Johnson (artist)

    Ben Johnson is a UK painter, best known for his series of large, detailed cityscapes....
     (1902–1967)
  • Lester Johnson
    Lester Johnson

    Lester Roland Johnson was a United States House of Representatives from Wisconsin....
     (1919-)


K

  • Reuben Kadish
    Reuben Kadish

    Reuben Kadish was an Visual arts of the United States, specializing as a Sculpture, Drawing, muralist, Painting, and Printmaking. In his later career he also taught art history and sculpture in New York....
     (1913–1992)
  • Wolf Kahn
    Wolf Kahn

    Wolf Kahn is a Germany-born United States Painting.Kahn is known for his combination of Realism and Color Field, and known to work in pastel and oil paint....
     (1927-)
  • Herbert Kallem (1909–1994)
  • Howard Kanovitz (1929-2009)
  • Morris Kantor (1896–1974)
  • Kappell (NA)
  • Alex Katz
    Alex Katz

    Alex Katz is an United States figural artist associated with the Pop art movement. In particular, he is known for his paintings, sculptures, and printmaking....
     (1927-)
  • Earl Kerkam (1891–1965)
  • William Kienbusch (1914–1980)
  • Frederich Kiesler (1896–1965)
  • William King
    William King (artist)

    William King is a contemporary United States sculptor born in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1925. His work spans countless media and usually revolves around the figurative portrayal of human figures....
     (1925-)
  • Klavin (NA)
  • Franz Kline
    Franz Kline

    Franz Kline was an American painter mainly associated with the Abstract Expressionism painters who were centered, geographically, around New York, and temporally, in the 1940s and 1950s; but not limited to that setting....
     (1910–1962)
  • Guitou Knoop (1909–1985)
  • Gabriel Kohn (1910–1975)
  • Albert Kotin
    Albert Kotin

    Albert Kotin belonged to the early generation of New York School Abstract Expressionist artists whose artistic innovation by the 1950s had been recognized across the Atlantic, including Paris....
     (1907–1980)
  • Lee Krasner
    Lee Krasner

    Lee Krasner was an influential abstract expressionism painter in the second half of the 20th century.On October 25th 1945, she married artist Jackson Pollock, who was also influential in the Abstract Expressionism movement....
     (1908–1984)
  • Albert Kresch
    Albert Kresch

    Albert Kresch is a New York School painter who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. One of the original members of the Jane Street Gallery in the 1930s, he exhibited in later years at Tibor de Nagy Gallery and Salander-O?Reilly Galleries....
     (1922–)


L

  • Ibram Lassaw
    Ibram Lassaw

    Ibram Lassaw is an United States sculpture, known for nonobjective construction in brazed metals....
     (1913–2003)
  • Alfred Leslie (1927-)
  • Israel J. Levitan (1912–1982)
  • Norman W. Lewis (1909–1979)
  • Landes Lewitin (1892–1966)
  • Linda Lindeberg (1915–1973)
  • Richard Lippold
    Richard Lippold

    Richard Lippold was an United States sculpture, known for his geometric constructions using wire as a medium. Lippold was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and worked as an industrial designer from 1937 to 1941....
     (1915–2002)
  • Seymour Lipton
    Seymour Lipton

    Seymour Lipton was an United States abstract expressionism sculpture. He was a member of the New York School who gained widespread recognition in the 1950s....
     (1903–1986)
  • John Little (artist) (1907–1984)
  • William H. Littlefield (1902–1969)
  • Michael Loew (1907–1985)
  • Vincent J. Longo (1923-)
  • David Lund
    David Lund

    David Lund is identified with the abstract expressionist painters of the New York School. His landscape oils done in the 1950s are exemplary of the bold combination of form, color and texture for which this group is celebrated....
     (1925-)


M

  • M. Manning (NA)
  • Conrad Marca-Relli
    Conrad Marca-Relli

    Conrad Marca-Relli belonged to the early generation of New York School Abstract Expressionist artists whose artistic innovation by the 1950s had been recognized across the Atlantic, including Paris....
     (1913–2000)
  • Marcia Marcus (1928-)
  • Boris Margo (1902–1995)
  • Marisol Escobar
    Marisol Escobar

    Maria Sol Escobar , otherwise known simply as Marisol, is a sculpture born in Paris of Venezuelan lineage, living in Europe, the United States and Caracas....
     (1930-)
  • Nicholas Marsicano
    Nicholas Marsicano

    Nicholas Marsicano , American painter and teacher of the New York School, was married to Dancer/Choreagrapher Merle Marsicano. He is survived by his widow, Painter Susan Kamen Marsicano....
     (1908–1991)
  • Knox Martin
    Knox Martin

    Knox Martin is an United States Painting, sculptor and muralist. Born in 1923 in Barranquilla, Colombia, he studied at the Art Students League of New York from 1946 till 1950....
     (1923-)
  • Alice T. Mason (1904–1971)
  • Mercedes Matter
    Mercedes Matter

    Mercedes Matter nee Carles was an United States Painting and drawing. Her father was the American modernist painter Arthur Beecher Carles who had studied with Matisse....
     (1913–2001)
  • George McNeil (1908–1995)
  • Deven Mead (NA)
  • Joseph Messina (NA)
  • Jeanne Patterson Miles (1908–1999)
  • Fred Mitchell
    Fred Mitchell (artist)

    Fred Mitchell belonged to the early generation of New York School Abstract Expressionist artists whose artistic innovation by the 1950s had been recognized across the Atlantic, including Paris....
     (1923-)
  • Joan Mitchell
    Joan Mitchell

    Joan Mitchell was a ?Second Generation? Abstract Expressionist painting. Along with Lee Krasner, Grace Hartigan, and Helen Frankenthaler she was one of her era's few female painters to gain critical and public acclaim....
     (1926–1992)
  • Hans Moller (1905-200)
  • Kyle Morris (1917–1979)
  • Robert Motherwell
    Robert Motherwell

    Robert Motherwell was an Visual arts of the United States abstract expressionism Painting and printmaker. He was one of the youngest of the New York School , which also included Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, and Philip Guston...
     (1915–1991)
  • Jan Mόller
    Jan Mόller (artist)

    'Jan M?ller' the New York Figurative Expressionists of the 1950s. According to Carter Ratcliff His paintings usually erect a visual architecture sturdy enough to support an array of standing, riding, levitating figures....
     (1922–1958)


N

  • Reuben Nakian
    Reuben Nakian

    Reuben Nakian was an United States sculptor and teacher.Nakian's recurring themes are from Greek and Roman mythology. Noted works include Leda and the Swan,...
     (1897–1986)
  • Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
    Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

    Louise Berliawsky Nevelson was a Ukraine-born United States artist.Nevelson is known for her abstract expressionist ?crates? grouped together to form a new creation....
     (1900–1988)
  • Al James Newbill (1921-)
  • Roy Newell (NA)
  • Costantino Nivola
    Costantino Nivola

    Costantino Nivola was an Italy sculptor. He is the grandfather of actor Alessandro Nivola....
     (1911–1988)
  • Isamu Noguchi
    Isamu Noguchi

    was a prominent Japanese American artist and landscape architecture whose artistic career spanned six decades, from the 1920s onward. Known for his sculpture and public works, Noguchi also designed stage sets for various Martha Graham productions, and several mass-produced lamps and furniture pieces, some of which are still manufactured and sold....
     (1904–1988)
Kenneth Noland (1924-)

O

  • Kenzo Okada
    Kenzo Okada

    Kenzo Okada was an American painter of Japanese birth. In 1922 he entered the department of Western painting at Tokyo School of Fine Arts, called today Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, but in 1924 left for France where he studied with fellow Japanese expatriate Tsugouharu Foujita, executing paintings of urban subjects....
     (1902–1982)
  • George Ortman (1926-)
  • Cyril Osborn (NA)
  • Alfonso A. Ossorio
    Alfonso A. Ossorio

    Alfonso A. Ossorio was an Abstract expressionism artist who was born in Manila in 1916 to wealthy Filipino parents from the province of Negros Occidental....
     (1916–1990)


P

  • Stephan Pace (1918-)
  • Charlotte Park (1918-)
  • Ray Parker (1922–1990)
  • Felix Pasilis (1922-)
  • Patricia Passlof (NA)
  • Philip Pavia (1912–2005)
  • Vincent Pepi
    Vincent Pepi

    Vincent Pepi is an abstract expressionist Painting associated with the New York School. His contribution to American art includes some of the foremost examples of action painting, produced consistently over the course of the second half of the 20th century....
     (1926-)
  • Philip Pearlstein
    Philip Pearlstein

    Philip Pearlstein is an American art painter, and an important and innovative artist of the contemporary Realism school....
     (1924-)
  • Howard Petersen (NA)
  • Vita Peterson (NA)
  • Reginald Pollack
    Reginald Pollack

    Reginald Murray Pollack was an United States of America painter known for metaphorical and theme based works of art. He was also a veteran of World War II having served in the Pacific Theater of Operations....
     (1924–2001)
  • Jackson Pollock
    Jackson Pollock

    Paul Jackson Pollock was an influential American painter and a major force in the abstract expressionism movement. In October 1945, he married the artist Lee Krasner....
     (1912–1956)
  • Fairfield Porter
    Fairfield Porter

    Fairfield Porter was an United States painting and Art criticism. He was the brother of photographer Eliot Porter and the brother-in-law of federal United States Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Michael W....
     (1907–1975)
  • Richard Pousette-Dart
    Richard Pousette-Dart

    Richard Pousette-Dart was an United States Abstract Expressionist painter....
     (1916–1992)
  • Melville Price (1920–1970)


R

  • Robert Rauschenberg
    Robert Rauschenberg

    Robert Rauschenberg was an American artist who came to prominence in the 1950s transition from Abstract Expressionism to Pop Art. Rauschenberg is perhaps most famous for his "Combines" of the 1950s, in which non-traditional materials and objects were employed in innovative combinations....
     (1925-2008)
  • Ad Reinhardt
    Ad Reinhardt

    Adolph Fredrick Reinhardt was an Abstract art active in New York beginning in the 1930s and continuing through the 1960s. He was a member of the American Abstract Artists and was a part of the movement centered around the Betty Parsons that became known as Abstract Expressionism....
     (1913–1967)
  • Wallace Reiss (1925–1978))
  • Theophil Reppke (N/A)
  • Milton Resnick
    Milton Resnick

    Milton Resnick was a major abstract expressionism Painting and teacher known for his Mysticism, abstract and figurative paintings. Born in Bratslav, Russia, he emigrated to the United States in 1922....
     (1917–2004)
  • Jeanne Reynal (1903–1983)
  • Robert Richenburg (1917–2006)
  • Larry Rivers
    Larry Rivers

    Larry Rivers was a Jewish American artist, musician, filmmaker and occasional actor. Rivers resided and maintained studios in New York City, Southampton, New York on and Zihuatanejo, Mexico....
     (1923–2002)
  • Raymond Rocklin (1922-)
  • James Rosati
    James Rosati

    James Rosati was an American abstract sculptor.Born in Pennsylvania, Rosati moved to New York in 1944, where he befriended fellow sculptor Philip Pavia....
     (1911–1988)
  • Leatrice Rose (N/A)
  • Anne Ryan
    Anne Ryan

    Anne Ryan belonged to the early generation of New York School Abstract Expressionist artists. Her first contact with the New York Avant-garde came in 1941 when she joined the Atelier 17, a famous printmaking workshop that the United Kingdom artist Stanley William Hayter had established in Paris in the 1930's and then brought to New York when...
     (1889–1954)


S

  • Attilio Salemme (1911–1955)
  • Ludwig Sander (1906–1975)
  • Joop Sanders (1921-)
  • Angelo Savelli (1911-)
  • Louis Schanker
    Louis Schanker

    Louis Schanker was an United States abstract artist born in 1903. He grew up in an orthodox Jewish environment in the Bronx, New York. His parents were of Romanian descent....
     (1903–1981)
  • Miriam Schapiro
    Miriam Schapiro

    Miriam Schapiro is a Canada-born artist based in United States. She is a pioneer of feminist art.She was born in Toronto, Canada and studied at the State University of Iowa....
     (1923-)
  • Abram Schlemovitz (N/A)
  • Edith Schloss (1919-)
  • Day T. Schnabel (1905-)
  • Max Schnitzler (1903-)
  • Jon Schueler
    Jon Schueler

    Jon Schueler was an United States artist....
     (1916–1992)
  • Ethel K. Schwabacher (1903–1984)
  • Sonia Sekula (1918–1963)
  • Charles Seliger (1926-)
  • Kurt Seligman (1900–1962)
  • Thomas A. Sills (1914–2000)
  • David Slivka (1914-)
  • David Smith
    David Smith (sculptor)

    David Roland Smith was an United States Abstract Expressionism sculptor best known for creating large steel abstract geometric sculptures....
     (1906–1965)
  • Hyde Solomon (1911–1982)
  • George Spaventa (1918–1978)
  • Ray Spillenger (1924-)
  • Nora Speyer (1923-)
  • Jack Squire (1927-)
  • Theodoros Stamos
    Theodoros Stamos

    Theodoros Stamos , was a Greek American artist. He is one of the youngest painters of the original group of abstract expressionist painters , which included Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko....
     (1922–1997)
  • Richard Stankiewicz (1922–1983)
  • Joe Stefanelli (artist) (1921-)
  • John Stephan (1906–1994)
  • Hedda Sterne
    Hedda Sterne

    Hedda Sterne , born in Bucharest, Romania, is an artist best remembered as the only woman in a group of Abstract Expressionists known as "The Irascibles" which consisted of Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko, and more....
     (1910-)
  • Jean Steubing (NA)


T

  • Anne Tabachnick (1927-1995)
  • Tavelli (NA)
  • Albert Terris (NA)
  • Yvonne Thomas (1913-)
  • Tolkach (NA)
  • Bradley Walker Tomlin
    Bradley Walker Tomlin

    Bradley Walker Tomlin belonged to the early generation of New York School Abstract Expressionist artists. He participated in the famous ??Ninth Street Show.?? According to John I....
     (1899–1953)
  • Turku Trajan (1887–1957)
  • Cy Twombly
    Cy Twombly

    Edwin Parker Twombly Jr. is an American artist well known for his large-scale, freely scribbled, Calligraphy-style graffiti paintings, on solid fields of mostly gray, tan, or off-white colors....
     (1928-)
  • Jack Tworkov
    Jack Tworkov

    Jack Tworkov was a Poland born United States abstract expressionism painter.He was born in Biala Podlaska, Russian Empire and immigrated to the United States in 1913 with his mother and younger sister who would later become known as Janice Biala....
     (1900–1982)


U


V

  • Nicolai I. Vasilieff (1892–1970)
  • Esteban Vicente
    Esteban Vicente

    Esteban Vicente , one of the first generation of the New York Abstract Expressionists, was born in Tur?gano, Spain on January 20, 1904....
     (1904–2001)
  • Vaclav Vytlacil (1892–1984)


W

  • Weil (NA)
  • Michael (Corinne) West (1908–1991)
  • Pennerton West (1913-)
  • Steve Wheeler (1912–1992)
  • Connie Whidden (NA)
  • William White (NA)
  • Norman Wiener (NA)
  • Jane Wilson (1924-)


X


Y

  • Taro Yamamoto
    Taro Yamamoto (artist)

    Taro Yamamoto belonged to the New York School Abstract Expressionist artists whose artistic innovation by the 1950s had been recognized across the Atlantic, including Paris....
     (1919–1993)
  • Alice Yamin (NA)
  • Manoucher Yektai
    Manoucher Yektai

    Manoucher Yektai belongs to the New York School Abstract Expressionist artists....
     (1922-)
  • Adja Yunkers
    Adja Yunkers

    Adja Yunkers was an Abstract art painter and printmaker who was born in Riga, Latvia in 1900. He studied art in Leningrad, Berlin, Paris and London....
      (1900–1983)


Z

  • Wilfrid Zogbaum (1915–1965)


African-American artists of the New York School abstract expressionists of the 1950s

For African American
African American

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 artists a barrier to success in the post-War
Post-war

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 era
Era

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 was the prevailing blight of racism
Racism

Racism, by its simplest definition is the belief that Race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race....
 and segregation
Racial segregation

File:Segregated cinema entrance3.jpgRacial segregation is the separation of different Race s in daily life, such as eating in a restaurant, drinking from a drinking fountain, using a rest room, attending school, going to the movies, or in the rental or purchase of a home....
. This resulted in exclusion of artists of African-American origin from major exhibitions and critical attentions. The best evidence of this is the absence of African-American artists in the New York School Annuals between 1951 and 1957. These annual exhibitions represented a total of 265 New York School artists, none of whom were African-American.

List of African-American artists of the New York School abstract expressionists of the 1950s

  • Charles Alston
    Charles Alston

    Charles Henry Alston born in Charlotte,North Carolina was an African American artist, muralist, and teacher. Alston graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School in New York City, then attended Columbia College of Columbia University and Teachers College, Columbia University at Columbia University in 1929 where he obtained his Master of Fine...
     (1907–1977)
  • Romare Bearden
    Romare Bearden

    Romare Bearden was an United States artist and writer. He worked in several media including cartoons, oils, and collage....
     (1911–1988)
  • Edward Clark (1926- )
  • Beauford Delaney
    Beauford Delaney

    Beauford Delaney was an United States modernist Painting.[See photo of Delaney by Hardy Liston]Perhaps I should not say, flatly, what I believe ? that he is a great painter ? among the very greatest; but I do know that great art can only be created out of love, and that no greater lover has ever held a brush. ? James Baldwin ...
     (1901–1979)
  • Harlan Jackson (1918- )
  • Norman Lewis (artist)
    Norman Lewis (artist)

    Norman W. Lewis was an award-winning African-American Painting, scholar, and teacher. He is associated with Abstract Expressionism. Lewis was African-American, of Caribbean descent....
     (1909–1979)
  • Hale Woodruff
    Hale Woodruff

    Hale Aspacio Woodruff was an African American artist known for his mural, paintings, and prints. One example of his work, the Amistad murals can be found at Talladega College in Talladega County, Alabama....
     (1900–1980)


New York art scene in the late 1950s


Marilyn Stokstad, the British
United Kingdom

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 art historian
Art history

Art history has historically been understood as the academic study of objects of art in their historical development and stylistic contexts, i.e.genre, design, format, and look.This includes the "major" arts of painting, sculpture, and architecture as well as the "minor" arts of ceramics, furniture, and other decorative objects....
, wrote: ’’When the United States
United States

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 emerged from World War II
World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
 as the most powerful nation in the world, its new stature was soon reflected in the arts. American
United States

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 artist
Artist

The definition of an artist is wide-ranging and covers a broad spectrum of activities to do with creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art....
s and architect
Architect

An architect is trained and licenced in planning and designing buildings, and participates in supervising the construction of a building. Etymologically, architect derives from the Latin architectus, itself derived from the Greek arkhitekton , i.e....
s-especially those living in New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
-assumed the leadership in artistic innovation that by the late 1950s had been acknowledged across the Atlantic Ocean
Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's oceanic divisions; with a total area of about 106.4 million square kilometres . It covers approximately one-fifth of the Earth's surface....
, even in Paris
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
. Critic
Critic

The word critic comes from the Greek language ' , "able to discern", which in turn derives from the word ' , meaning a person who offers reasoned judgment or analysis, value judgment, interpretation, or observation....
s, curator
Curator

Curator , means manager, Wiktionary:overseer.Traditionally, a curator or keeper of a culture heritage institution is a content specialist responsible for an institution's Collection s and, together with a publications specialist, their associated collections catalogs....
s and art historians
Art history

Art history has historically been understood as the academic study of objects of art in their historical development and stylistic contexts, i.e.genre, design, format, and look.This includes the "major" arts of painting, sculpture, and architecture as well as the "minor" arts of ceramics, furniture, and other decorative objects....
, trying to follow art’s ‘mainstream,’ now focused on New York as the new center of modernism
Modernism

Modernism, in its broadest definition, is modern thought, character, or practice. More specifically, the term describes both a set of cultural tendencies and an array of associated cultural movements, originally arising from wide-scale and far-reaching changes to Western culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century....
.’’

The post-World War II
World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
 era
Era

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 highly benefited some of the artists who were early on recognized by the Art critics
Art criticism

Art criticism is the discussion or evaluation of visual art.Art critics usually criticize art in the context of aesthetics or the theory of beauty....
 of the post World War II era. According to Irving Sandler
Irving Sandler

Irving Sandler is an American art critic. In 1965, he curated the critically acclaimed Concrete Expressionism show at New York University featuring the work of painters Al Held and Knox Martin and the sculptors Ronald Bladen, George Sugarman and David Weinrib....
, ‘’From 1947 to 1951, more than a dozen Abstract Expressionists achieved ‘breakthroughs’ to independent styles. Younger artists who entered their circle in the early fifties-the early wave of the second generation were also acclaimed, but with a few exceptions, their reputation had gone into decline by the end of the fifties.’’ (Sandler verified the arbitrary notion of “generation:” It refers to a group of artists close in age who live in the same neighborhood at the same time, and to a greater or lesser degree, know each other and partake of a similar sensibility, a shared outlook and aesthetic.)

Some of the New York artists having no galleries or means to get ahead took advantage of the GI Bill and left for Europe
Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
 to later return with acclaim. Among them were Norman Bluhm and Sam Francis. The majority of artists from all across the US arrived in New York City to seek recognition. By the end of the decade the list of artists associated with the New York School had greatly increased. (see: Complete List of Artists' Participation in the New York Painting and Sculpture Annuals, 1951-1957)

List of artists associated with the New York art scene of the 1950s and not included in the New York Annuals


  • Norman Bluhm
    Norman Bluhm

    Norman Bluhm , was an United States painter classified as an abstract expressionist, and as an Action painting. His paintings are also related to Tachisme and Lyrical Abstraction....
     (1921–1999)
  • Judith Brown
    Judith Brown (sculptor)

    Judith Brown was a dancer and a sculptor who was drawn to images of the body in motion and its effect on the cloth surrounding it. She welded crushed automobile scrap metal into energetic moving torsos, horses, and flying draperies....
     (1931–1992)
  • Mary Callery
    Mary Callery

    Mary Callery was an United States artist known for her Modern art and Abstract expressionism sculpture. She was part of the New York School art movement of the 1940s, '50s and '60s....
     (1903–1977)
  • John Chamberlain (1927-)
  • Richard Diebenkorn
    Richard Diebenkorn

    Richard Clifford Diebenkorn, Jr. was a well-known 20th century Visual arts of the United States. His early work is associated with Abstract expressionism and the Bay Area Figurative Movement of the 1950s and 1960s....
     (1922–1993)
  • Jim Dine
    Jim Dine

    Jim Dine is an America n pop artist. He is sometimes considered to be a part of the Neo-Dada movement. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, attended the University of Cincinnati and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Ohio University in 1957....
     (1935-)
  • Mark di Suvero
    Mark di Suvero

    Mark di Suvero is an American abstract expressionist sculptor born in Shanghai, China in 1933 to Italian expatriates. He came to San Francisco, California in 1941 with his father....
     (1933-)
  • Sam Francis
    Sam Francis

    Samuel Lewis Francis was an United States Painting and printmaker. He was born in San Mateo, California, and studied botany, medicine and psychology at the University of California, Berkeley....
     (1923–1994)
  • Red Grooms
    Red Grooms

    Red Grooms is an United States multimedia artist best known for his colorful pop art constructions depicting frenetic scenes of modern urban life....
     (1937-)
  • Raoul Hague (1905–1993)
  • Al Held
    Al Held

    Al Held was an United States Abstract expressionism Painting. He was particularly well known for his large scale Hard-edge paintings....
     (1928–2005)
  • Paul Jenkins
    Paul Jenkins (United States painter)

    Paul Jenkins is a U.S. abstract expressionist Painting....
     (1923-)
  • Jasper Johns
    Jasper Johns

    File:Jasper Johns's 'Map', 1961.jpgJasper Johns, Jr. is a contemporary American artist who works primarily in painting and printmaking. He is represented by the Matthew Marks Gallery....
     (1930-)
  • Alan Kaprow (1927–2006)
  • Ellsworth Kelly
    Ellsworth Kelly

    Ellsworth Kelly is an United States painter and sculptor associated with Hard-edge painting, Color Field painting and the minimalism school. His works demonstrate unassuming techniques that emphasize the simplicity of form....
     (1923-)
  • Morris Louis (1912–1962)
  • Barnett Newman
    Barnett Newman

    Barnett Newman was an United States artist. He is seen as one of the major figures in abstract expressionism and one of the foremost of the color field painters....
     (1905–1970)
  • Kenneth Noland
    Kenneth Noland

    Kenneth Noland is an United States Abstract art Painting. He is identified today as one of the best-known contemporary United States Color field painters, although in the 1950s he was thought of as an abstract expressionist and in the early 1960s he was thought of as a minimalist painter....
     (1924-)
  • Claes Oldenburg
    Claes Oldenburg

    Claes Oldenburg is a sculpture, best known for his public art installations typically featuring very large replicas of everyday objects. Another theme in his work is soft sculpture versions of everyday objects....
     (1929-)
  • Mark Rothko
    Mark Rothko

    Mark Rothko, born Marcus Rothkowitz , was a Latvian-born United States painter and printmaker. He is classified as an abstract expressionism, although he himself rejected this label, and even resisted the classification as an "abstract painter"....
     (1903–1970)
  • George Segal
    George Segal (artist)

    George Segal was an United States Painting and sculptor associated with the Pop Art movement. He was presented with a National Medal of Arts in 1999....
     (1924–2000)
  • Leon Polk Smith
    Leon Polk Smith

    Leon Polk Smith was an United States painter. His geometrically oriented Abstract art paintings were influenced by Piet Mondrian and his style has been associated with the Hard-edge painting school, of which he is considered one of the founders....
     (1906–1996)
  • Clifford Still (1904–1980)
  • Mark Tobey
    Mark Tobey

    Mark George Tobey was an United States Abstract expressionism Painting, born in Centerville, Wisconsin. Widely recognized throughout the United States and Europe, Tobey is the most noted among the "mystical painters of the Northwest." Senior in age and experience, Tobey had a strong influence on the others....
     (1890–1976)
  • John von Wicht (1888–1970)
  • Robert Whitman
    Robert Whitman

    Robert Whitman is an American artist best known for his seminal theater pieces of the early 1960s combining visual and sound images, actors, film, slides, and evocative props in environments of his own making....
     (1935-)


New York art scene in the late 1950s and 1960s

1957 represented the beginning of Pop Art and the following movements and/or trends. Painters, sculptors and printmakers associated with Abstract expressionism
Abstract expressionism

Abstract expressionism was an American post?World War II art movement. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve worldwide influence and also the one that put New York City at the center of the art world, a role formerly filled by Paris....
, Action painting
Action painting

Action painting, sometimes called "gestural abstraction", is a style of painting in which paint is spontaneously dribbled, splashed or smeared onto the canvas, rather than being carefully applied....
, Fluxus
Fluxus

Fluxus?a name taken from a Latin word meaning "to flow"?is an international network of artists, composers and designers noted for blending different artistic media and disciplines in the 1960s....
, Color field painting
Color Field

Color Field painting is a style of abstract painting that emerged in New York City during the 1940s and 1950s. Inspired by European modernism and closely related to Abstract Expressionism with many of its important early proponents being among the pioneering Abstract Expressionists....
, Hard-edge painting
Hard-edge painting

Hard-edge painting is painting in which abrupt transitions are found between color areas. Color areas are often of one unvarying color. Color transitions often take place along straight lines, though curvilinear edges of color areas are also common....
, Pop art
Pop art

Pop art is a visual art movement that emerged in the mid 1950s in UK and in the late 1950s in the United States. Pop art challenged tradition by asserting that an artist's use of the mass-produced visual commodities of popular culture is contiguous with the perspective of Fine Art since Pop removes the material from its context and isolates...
, Minimal Art
Minimalism

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, Lyrical Abstraction
Lyrical Abstraction

Lyrical Abstraction refers to two related but distinctly separate movements in Post-war Modernist painting.European Lyrical Abstraction is an art movement born in Paris after World War II....
, and other movements associated with New York City. During the 1950s through the early 1960s the artists often congregated at the Cedar Tavern
Cedar Tavern

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 in Greenwich Village and during the mid 1960s through the early 1970s at Max's Kansas City
Max's Kansas City

Max's Kansas City was a nightclub and restaurant at 213 Park Avenue South, between 17th and 18th Streets, in New York City that was a gathering spot for musicians, poets, artists and politicians in the 1960s and 1970s....
 on Park Avenue South between 17th and 18th Streets.

List of artists from the New York art scene of the 1950s,and 1960s


B

  • Ron Bladen (1918–1988)
  • Joe Brainard
    Joe Brainard

    Joe Brainard was an American artist and writer associated with the New York School. His prodigious and innovative body of work included assemblages, collages, drawing, and painting, as well as designs for book and album covers, theatrical sets and costumes....
     (1942–1994)
  • David Budd (1927–1991)


C

  • Robert F. Conover (1920–1998)
  • Lawrence Calcagno (1913–1993)
  • Dan Christensen
    Dan Christensen

    Dan Christensen, the United States abstract painter, was born in Cozad, Nebraska on October 6, 1942, he died in Easthampton, New York on January 20, 2007....
     (1942–2007)
  • Chuck Close
    Chuck Close

    Chuck Thomas Close is an American painter and photographer who achieved fame as a photorealist, through his massive-scale portraits. Though a catastrophic spinal artery collapse in 1988 left him severely paralyzed, he has continued to paint and produce work which remains sought after by museums and collectors....
     (1940-)


D

  • Alan D'Arcangelo
    Alan D'Arcangelo

    Allan D'Arcangelo was an United States Artist and Printmaker, best known known for his paintings of highways and road signs. His reputation as a Pop artist was established in 1963 with his series of paintings of American highways and signs, an example of which includes US Highway 1, Number 5. ...
     (1930–1998)


E

  • Norris Embry
    Norris Embry

    Norris Embry was an American artist born on January 14, 1921 in Louisville, Kentucky.He grew up in East Orange, New Jersey outside New York City and Evanston, Illinois in the Chicago area, attending public schools through high school....
     (1921–1981)


F


G

  • Leon Golub
    Leon Golub

    Leon Golub was an United States Painting. He was born in Chicago, Illinois, where he also studied, receiving his Bachelor of Arts at the University of Chicago in 1942, his BFA and Master of Fine Arts at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1949 and 1950, respectively....
     (1922–2004)
  • Arshile Gorky
    Arshile Gorky

    Arshile Gorky , was an Armenians-born United States painter who had a seminal influence on Abstract Expressionism....
     (1904–1948)
  • Nancy Graves
    Nancy Graves

    Nancy Graves was an United States sculpture, Painting, printmaker, and sometime-filmmaker known for her focus on natural phenomena like camels or maps of the moon....
     (1940–1995)
  • Chaim Gross
    Chaim Gross

    Chaim Gross was an Austrian born American sculptor. He was born in the then Austro-Hungarian village of Kolomyia and immigrated to the United States in 1921....
     (1904–1991)


H

  • Burt Hasen (1921–2007)
  • Eva Hesse
    Eva Hesse

    Eva Hesse , was a Germany United States sculptor, known for her pioneering work in materials such as latex, fiberglass, and plastics. ...
     (1936–1970)
  • Budd Hopkins
    Budd Hopkins

    Budd Hopkins is a central figure in abduction phenomenon and related unidentified flying object research. He is also a Painting and sculpture of note....
     (1931-)


I


J

  • Lenore Jaffee (1925-)
  • Ray Johnson
    Ray Johnson

    Ray Edward Johnson was a seminal figure of the Pop Art movement. Primarily a collage artist, Johnson was also an early performance and conceptual artist....
     (1927–1995)
  • Donald Judd
    Donald Judd

    Donald Clarence Judd was a Minimalism artist . In his work, Judd sought autonomy and clarity for the constructed object and the space created by it, ultimately achieving a rigorously democratic presentation without compositional hierarchy....
     (1928–1994)


K

  • Weldon Kees
    Weldon Kees

    Harry Weldon Kees was an American poet, critic, novelist, and short story writer....
     (1914–1955)
  • Lyman Kipp
    Lyman Kipp

    A sculptor and painter who creates pieces that are composed of strong vertical and horizontal objects and are often painted in bold primary colors recalling arrangements by De Stijl Constructivists....
     (1927-)
  • Nicholas Krushenick
    Nicholas Krushenick

    Nicholas Krushenick was one of the forerunners of the pop art movement.Krushenick began showing his work publicly in New York in 1957, at the age of 28....
     (1929 –1999)
  • John Krushenick
    John Krushenick

    John Krushenick painter and co-founder of the Brata Gallery in New York City. He studied with Hans Hofmann , exhibited at the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York City, and MoMA Tokyo....
     (1927 – 1998)


L

  • Ronnie Landfield
    Ronnie Landfield

    Ronnie Landfield is an United States abstract painter. During his early career from the mid-1960s through the 1970s his paintings were associated with Lyrical Abstraction , and he was represented by the David Whitney Gallery and the Andre Emmerich Gallery....
     (1947-)
  • Sol LeWitt
    Sol LeWitt

    Sol LeWitt was an United States artist linked to various movements, including Conceptual art and Minimalism. LeWitt rose to fame in the late 1960s with his wall drawings and "structures" but was prolific in a wide range of media including drawing, printmaking, and painting....
     (1928–2007)
  • Roy Lichtenstein
    Roy Lichtenstein

    Roy Fox Lichtenstein was a prominent United States pop artist, his work heavily influenced by both popular advertising and the comic book style....
     (1923–1997)
  • Lee Lozano (1930–1999)


M

  • Robert Mangold
    Robert Mangold

    Robert Mangold is an American minimalist artist....
     (1937-)
  • Brice Marden
    Brice Marden

    Brice Marden , is an Contemporary art, generally described as Minimalist, although his work defies specific categorization. He is represented by the Matthew Marks Gallery....
     (1938-)
  • Elizabeth Murray
    Elizabeth Murray (artist)

    Elizabeth Murray was an United States Painting, printmaker and technical drawing. Her works are in many major public collections, including those of the Solomon R....
     (1940-2007)


N

  • David Novros (1941-)


O

  • Doug Ohlson (1936-)
  • Jules Olitski
    Jules Olitski

    Jules Olitski was an United States Abstract art Painting, printmaker, and sculptor....
     (1922–2007)


P

  • Larry Poons (1937-)
  • Fuller Potter
    Fuller Potter

    Fuller Potter was an American abstract expressionism artist. He was born in New York City in 1910, attended St. Bernard's School in New York and Groton School in Groton, Massachusetts, and lived most of his life in his Ledyard, Connecticut estate, near Old Mystic....
     (1910–1990)


R

  • Peter Reginato
    Peter Reginato

    Peter Reginato is an American abstract sculptor. Reginato grew up in the hills outside of Oakland, California and he attended the San Francisco Art Institute....
     (1945-)
  • James Rosenquist
    James Rosenquist

    James Rosenquist is an acclaimed United States artist and one of the protagonists in the pop-art movement....
     (1933-)
  • Theodore Roszak
    Theodore Roszak (artist)

    Theodore Roszak was an United States Sculpture and Painting. He was born in Poznan, Prussia as a son of Poland parents, and emigrated at a young age to the United States....
     (1907–1981)


S

  • Lucas Samaras
    Lucas Samaras

    Lucas Samaras was born in Kastoria, Greece. He studied at Rutgers University on a scholarship, where he met Allan Kaprow and George Segal . He participated in Kaprow's "Happenings," and posed for Segal's plastic sculptures....
     (1936-)
  • Alan Saret (1944-)
  • Carolee Schneemann
    Carolee Schneemann

    Carolee Schneemann is an United States visual artist, known for her discourses on the body, human sexuality and gender. She received a B.A. from Bard College and an M.F.A....
     (1939)
  • Sean Scully
    Sean Scully

    Sean Scully is an Irish-born American Painting and Printmaking who has twice been named a Turner Prize nominee. His work is in major museums worldwide....
     (1945-)
  • Richard Serra
    Richard Serra

    Richard Serra is an United States minimalism sculpture and video artist known for working with large scale assemblies of sheet metal. Serra was involved in the Process Art Movement....
     (1939-)
  • Harold Shapinsky
    Harold Shapinsky

    Harold Shapinsky was an United States of America abstract expressionist Painting, born in Brooklyn, New York....
     (1925–2004)
  • Alan Shields (1944–2005)
  • Kenneth Showell (1939–1997)
  • Aaron Siskind
    Aaron Siskind

    Aaron Siskind was an American abstract expressionist photographer. In his biography he wrote that he began his foray into photography when he received a camera for a wedding gift and began taking pictures on his honeymoon....
     (1903–1991)
  • Tony Smith
    Tony Smith (sculptor)

    Tony Smith was an United States sculptor, visual artist, and a noted theorist on art.Tony Smith was born in South Orange, New Jersey. He first trained as an architect and in 1939 began working for Frank Lloyd Wright and was introduced to Wright's module concrete blocks....
     (1912–1980)
  • Robert Smithson
    Robert Smithson

    Robert Smithson was an United States artist famous for his land art....
     (1938–1973)
  • Kenneth Snelson
    Kenneth Snelson

    Kenneth Snelson is a contemporary sculpture and photographer. His sculptural works, composed of flexible and rigid components, are arranged according to the idea of tensegrity....
     (1927-)
  • Keith Sonnier
    Keith Sonnier

    Keith Sonnier is a minimalist, Performance art, video and light artist. Sonnier was one of the first artists to use light in sculpture in the 1960s, and has been one of the most successful with this technique....
     (1941-)
  • Nancy Spero
    Nancy Spero

    Nancy Spero is an United States artist. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, she has long been based in New York City. She was married to and collaborated with artist Leon Golub ....
     (1926-)
  • Frank Stella
    Frank Stella

    Frank Stella is an United States Painting and printmaker. He is a significant figure in minimalism and post-painterly abstraction.He was born in Malden, Massachusetts....
     (1936 -)


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  • Richard Tuttle
    Richard Tuttle

    Richard Dean Tuttle is an American postminimalism artist known for his small, subtle, intimate works. His art deals with issues of scale and the classic problems of line....
     (1941-)


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  • Robert Vickers
    Robert Vickers

    Robert Vickers was an American artist.After WWII, Vickers studied art at State University of New York at Geneseo , Columbia University , with postgraduate work at ?cole des Beaux-Arts, Acad?mie Julian, Ohio State University and the British Museum....
     (1924–1988)


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  • Andy Warhol
    Andy Warhol

    Andrew Warhola , more commonly known as Andy Warhol, was an United Statesn Painting, Printmaking, and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the Art movement known as pop art....
     (1928–1987)
  • Tom Weatherly (1942-)
  • Lawrence Weiner
    Lawrence Weiner

    Lawrence Weiner is a central figure of conceptual art, whose work often takes the form of typography texts. He lives and works in New York and Amsterdam....
     (1942-)
  • Neil Williams (artist) (1934–1988)
  • Hannah Wilke
    Hannah Wilke

    Hannah Wilke was an American Painting, sculptor, and photographer....
     (1940–1993)


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  • Larry Zox
    Larry Zox

    Lawrence "Larry" Zox was an United States painter and printmaker who is classified as an Abstract expressionism, Color Field painter and a Lyrical Abstractionist, although he did not readily use those categories for his work....
     (1937–2006)


Books

  • Irving Sandler, (New York; London : Harper and Row, 1978.) ISBN 0064385051 9780064385053
  • Irving Sandler, (New York; London : Harper and Row, 1977.) ISBN 0064300757 : 9780064300759
  • Marika Herskovic, (New York School Press, 2003.) ISBN 0-9677994-1-4
  • Marika Herskovic, (New York School Press, 2000.) ISBN 0-9677994-0-6
  • Statutes of Liberty, The New York School of Poets, Geoff Ward, Second Edition, 2001
  • The New American Poetry, 1945-1960
    The New American Poetry 1945-1960

    The New American Poetry 1945-1960 was a poetry anthology edited by Donald Allen, and published in 1960. It aimed to pick out the "third generation" of American modernist poets, and included quite a number of poems fresh from the little magazines of the late 1950s....
    , Donald Merriam Allen, 1969
  • An Anthology of New York Poets, Ron Padgett
    Ron Padgett

    'Ron Padgett' is an American poet, essayist, fiction writer, translator, and a member of the New York School. His books include: Great Balls of Fire, The Adventures of Mr....
     (ed.) and David Shapiro
    David Shapiro (poet)

    David Shapiro is an United States poet, literary critic, and art historian. Shapiro has written some twenty volumes of poetry, literary, and art criticism....
     (ed.), 1970
  • Frank O'Hara: Poet Among Painters, Marjorie Perloff
    Marjorie Perloff

    Marjorie Perloff is a poetry critic and professor emerita of English and Comparative Literature at Stanford University and currently scholar-in-residence at the University of Southern California....
    , 1977
  • The Last Avant-Garde: The Making of the New York School of Poets, David Lehman
    David Lehman

    David Lehman is the series editor for The Best American Poetry series and a poet....
    , 1998