Abstract Expressionism artists

Abstract Expressionism artists on Arts Calendar: 18 of them, with their dates, where they were born and died, and where their work is showing. Every artist, A to Z

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Frank Bowling Abstract painter; the Map paintings and poured canvases

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© LynnGilbert5 CC BY-SA 4.0 Helen Frankenthaler 1928 to 2011 Colour field painter; Mountains and Sea

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© Von Urban Public Domain Mark Arshile Gorky 1904 to 1948 Painter between Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism; The Artist and His Mother
© Sol Libsohn Public Domain Mark Philip Guston 1913 to 1980 Painter, from Abstract Expressionism to cartoon-like figuration

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Hans Hofmann 1880 to 1966 Abstract painter and teacher; push and pull

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Franz Kline 1910 to 1962 Abstract Expressionist; black and white gestural paintings
© Antony di Gesu, photographer Public Domain Mark Willem de Kooning 1904 to 1997 Abstract Expressionist; Woman series
© Gotfryd, Bernard, photographer Public Domain Mark Lee Krasner 1908 to 1984 Abstract Expressionist painter; Umber series

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Agnes Martin 1912 to 2004 Abstract painter; grids
Joan Mitchell 1925 to 1992 Abstract Expressionist painter; landscapes of feeling
Robert Motherwell 1915 to 1991 Abstract Expressionist; Elegies to the Spanish Republic

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© Bernard Gotfryd Public Domain Mark Barnett Newman 1905 to 1970 Colour field painter; zip paintings and Vir Heroicus Sublimis

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© Hans Namuth Public Domain Mark Jackson Pollock 1912 to 1956 Abstract Expressionist; drip paintings

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Ad Reinhardt 1913 to 1967 Abstract painter; black paintings
Mark Rothko 1903 to 1970 Colour field painter; Seagram murals and Rothko Chapel

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© דייויד סמית', אמריקני, 1965-1906 Public Domain Mark David Smith 1906 to 1965 Abstract Expressionist sculptor in welded steel; Cubi series
Clyfford Still 1904 to 1980 Abstract Expressionist; jagged fields of colour

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Cy Twombly 1928 to 2011 Painter; scribbled abstraction