Abstract Expressionism (Mid 20th Century)

To be alerted about this style, do a search for 'Abstract Expressionism'

About Abstract Expressionism

Description of Abstract Expressionism
Examples of Abstract Expressionism
Abstract Expressionistic Artists - 55
Auction Houses - 693

Abstract Expressionism
Term applied to a movement in American painting that flourished in the 1940s and 1950s, sometimes referred to as the New York School or, very narrowly, as ACTION PAINTING, although it was first coined in relation to the work of Vasily Kandinsky in 1929. The works of the generation of artists active in New York from the 1940s and regarded as Abstract Expressionists resist definition as a cohesive style; they range from Barnett Newman’s unbroken ... (view more)

Grove Art excerpts - Electronic ©2003, Oxford Art Online

Examples of Abstract Expressionism at Auction

Artists Associated with Abstract Expressionism — 55 artists:

Karel Appel William A Baziotes Franz Arthur Bischoff Norman Bluhm Louise Bourgeois James D. Brooks Alberto Burri Jack Hamilton Bush Lawrence Calcagno Mary Callery Edward Corbett Jose De Rivera Elaine DeKooning Willem DeKooning Enrico Donati Edward Dugmore James Arnold Ernst Herbert Ferber John Millard Ferren Arshile Gorky Adolph Gottlieb Morris Cole Graves Cleve Gray Philip Guston David Hare Hans Hofmann Alfred Julio Jensen Franz Kline

Lee Lenore Krasner Ibram Lassaw Norman Wilfred Lewis Morris Louis Conrad Marca-Relli George Joseph McNeil Joan Mitchell George W Morrison Robert Motherwell Louise Nevelson Barnett Benedict Newman Isamu Noguchi Alfonso Ossorio Betty Parsons Jackson Pollock Richard Pousette-Dart Mark Rothko William Scott Aaron Siskind David Rolland Smith Clyfford E Still Alma Woodsey Thomas Mark Tobey Jack Tworkov Esteban Vicente Neil Williams Adja Yunkers

Auction Houses that have sold Abstract Expressionistic works - 693

View list of houses