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Twentieth-Century Art: Selections from the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vol. 2, Painting, 1945–1985

Lieberman, William S., Lisa Mintz Messinger, Sabine Rewald, and Lowery S. Sims
1986
64 pages
51 illustrations
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Lisa Messinger

Lowery Sims

Lowery Stokes Sims is an independent curator and art historian and a former curator at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

William Lieberman

Sabine Rewald

Sabine Rewald is the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Curator in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art.

Water, Charles Sheeler  American, Oil on canvas
1945
Untitled, Clyfford Still  American, Oil on canvas
1946
White Rooster, Milton Avery  American, Oil on canvas
1947
King's Cookham Rise, Stanley Spencer  British, Oil on canvas
1947
The Beginning, Max Beckmann  German, Oil on canvas
1946–49
Attic, Willem de Kooning  American, born The Netherlands, Oil, enamel, and newspaper transfer on canvas
1949
Autumn Rhythm (Number 30), Jackson Pollock  American, Enamel on canvas
1950
Homage to the Square: Young, Josef Albers  American, born Germany, Oil on Masonite
1951–52
Homage to the Square: Precinct, Josef Albers  American, born Germany, Oil on Masonite
1951
Ruin at Daphne, Edwin Dickinson  American, Oil on canvas
1943–53
Semé, Stuart Davis  American, Oil on canvas
1953
Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus), Salvador Dalí  Spanish, Oil on canvas
1954
The Mirage of Time, Yves Tanguy  American, born France, Oil on canvas
1954
Nude in Front of a Mantel, Balthus (Balthasar Klossowski)  French, Oil on canvas
1955
No. 13 (White, Red on Yellow), Mark Rothko  American, born Russia, Oil and acrylic with powdered pigments on canvas
1958
No. 16, Mark Rothko  American, born Russia, Oil on canvas
1960
Black, White, and Gray, Franz Kline  American, Oil on canvas
1959
Elegy to the Spanish Republic No. 70, Robert Motherwell  American, Oil on canvas
1961
Standing Nude and Seated Musketeer, Pablo Picasso  Spanish, Oil on canvas
1968
Untitled, Cy Twombly  American, Oil and crayon on canvas
1970
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———, eds. 1986b. 20th Century Art: Selections from the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: The Museum.