Abstract Expressionism and Other Modern Works : The Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

by Edited by Gary Tinterow, Lisa Mintz Messinger, and Nan Rosenthal

• ISBN13: 9780300122527
• ISBN10: 0300122527
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2007-11-01
• Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Summary

This handsomel book features 63 paintings, sculptures, and drawings from The Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman Collection, which was recently given to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, where it will be exhibited beginning in September 2007. Long recognized for its preeminent Abstract Expressionist works, the collection includes major canvases by the great painters of the movement, among them De Kooning, Pollock, and Rothko, and sculptures by David Smith. Also featured are Morris Louis, Noland, Oldenburg, and other Americans of the succeeding generation as well as a selection of works by early European modernists such as Arp, Giacometti, Leger, and Miro. With color illustrations throughout, the book features texts by 22 leading scholars, including David Anfam, Diane Kelder, and Richard Shiff.

Author Biography

Lisa Mintz Messinger is associate curator and Gary Tinterow is Englehard Curator in Charge in the Department of 19th-Century, Modern, and Contemporary Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Table of Contents

An afternoon with Muriel Newman : "the best of the newest"	p. 2
Paula Modersohn-Becker, Seven trees	p. 12
John Marin, Broadway, Trinity church	p. 14
Kurt Schwitters, Plan of love (Merzbild 12 b)	p. 18
Fernand Leger, The builders	p. 20
Max Ernst, Gala Eluard	p. 24
Jacques Lipchitz, Seated man (Meditation)	p. 27
Joan Miro, Circus horse	p. 30
Jean Arp, Torso, Navel, Mustache-flower	p. 34
Jean Arp, Man seen by a flower	p. 35
Gaston Lachaise, Standing nude	p. 37
Arthur Dove, Storm clouds	p. 41
Wols, Untitled	p. 44
Matta, Untitled	p. 47
Arshile Gorky, Virginia landscape	p. 50
Arshile Gorky, Untitled	p. 51
Arshile Gorky, Untitled	p. 52
Arshile Gorky, Study for "Year after year"	p. 53
Mark Tobey, The way	p. 57
Milton Resnick, Untitled	p. 60
Willem de Kooning, Untitled	p. 63
Clyfford Still, 7947-H No.1 (PH-265)	p. 66
Karl Knaths, The blue platter	p. 69
Jack Tworkov, Study for "Athene"	p. 72
Jack Tworkov, Athene	p. 72
Willem de Kooning, Attic	p. 75
Willem de Kooning, Untitled	p. 80
Philip Guston, Untitled	p. 83
Theodore Roszak, Study for "Firebird"	p. 86
Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved.