Developing Abstraction Through Collage: Paintings of the 1930s-1940s

Developing Abstraction Through Collage: Paintings of the 1930s-1940s

152 W 57th St 3rd FloorNew York, NY 10019, USA Monday, May 20, 2019–Friday, August 23, 2019


geometry on green by ilya bolotowsky

Ilya Bolotowsky

Geometry on Green, 1937

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no. 15 (tabletop composition) by albert eugene gallatin

Albert Eugene Gallatin

No. 15 (Tabletop Composition), 1940

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37-019 by gertrude greene

Gertrude Greene

37-019, 1937

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38-c7 by balcomb greene

Balcomb Greene

38-C7, 1938

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collage composition by george l.k. morris

George L.K. Morris

Collage Composition, 1941

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night flight by charles green shaw

Charles Green Shaw

Night Flight, 1938

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sky float by charles green shaw

Charles Green Shaw

Sky Float, 1938

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Developing Abstraction through Collage considers how pioneer American abstract artists created their non-objective compositions. The exhibition of over 30 paintings and collages from 1934 to 1951 focuses on the American Abstract Artists group (founded 1936) and the circle around Hilla Rebay and the Museum of Non-Objective Painting (founded 1937, now the Guggenheim). Artists include: Charles Biederman, Emil Bisttram, Ilya Bolotowsky, Werner Drewes, A. E. Gallatin, Balcomb and Gertrude Greene, Carl Holty, Raymond Jonson, George L. K. Morris, Charles Green Shaw, Esphyr Slobodkina, Stuart Walker, and Jean Xceron. The exhibition features women who exhibited at the Museum of Non-Objective Painting: its founder Hilla Rebay, Dorothy Morang, and Marguerite Hohenberg. A catalogue accompanies the exhibition.

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