Abstraction at Mid-Century

Philip Guatun, American, 1913-1980

Dial
1956
Oil on canvas
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Purchase; 56.44

Major Works from the Whitney Museum of American Art

This exhibition of forty-five works from the collection of the Whitney Museum in New York will showcase works by some of the most prominent American artists of the period, including Mark Rothko, Philip Guston, Helen Frankenthaler, Franz Kline, Jasper Johns, Louise Nevelson, Willem de Kooning, Lee Krasner, Adolph Gottlieb, Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, and Larry Rivers, among others. These works, mostly dating from the 1940s through the early 1960s, offer the opportunity to study the art movements—abstract expressionism and color field painting—that shifted the center of avant-garde art from Paris to New York.

This exhibition has been organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Its presentation at the Hood Museum of Art has been made possible through the generous support of the William B. Jaffe and Evelyn A. Hall Fund, the Cissy Patterson Fund, and the Eleanor Smith Fund.