Exploring an unparalleled period in American art, this long awaited exhibition reveals the full breadth of a movement that will forever be associated with the boundless creative energy of 1950s New York. In the era of free jazz and the Beat Generation, artists like Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Willem de Kooning broke from accepted conventions to unleash a new confidence in painting. Read more.
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Vawdavitch (1955), Franz Kline. © ARS, NY and DACS, London 2016
PH-950 (1950), Clyfford Still. © the Clyfford Still Museum
The Eye is the First Circle (1960), Lee Krasner. © ARS, NY and DACS, London 2016
Star Cage (1950), David Smith. © Estate of David Smith/DACS, London/VAGA, New York 2016Hom
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