Portrait Of 'The Irascibles'
by Nina Leen
Title
Portrait Of 'The Irascibles'
Artist
Nina Leen
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
Portrait of a group of American abstract artists, collectively known as 'The Irascibles,' New York, New York, November 24, 1950. Pictured are William Baziotes (1912 - 1963), James C. Brooks (1906 - 1992), Jimmy Ernst (1920 - 1984), Adolph Gottlieb (1903 - 1974), Hedda Sterne (1910 - 2011), Clyfford Still (1904 - 1980), Willem de Kooning (1904 - 1997), Bradley Walker Tomlin (1899 - 1955), Barnett Newman (1905 - 1970), Jackson Pollock (1912 - 1956), Theodoros Stamos (1922 - 1997), Richard Pousette-Dart (1916 - 1992), Robert Motherwell (1915 - 1991), Ad Reinhardt (1913 - 1967), and Mark Rothko (1903 - 1970). The name referred to the group's protest letter to Francis Henry Taylor, president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, over the group exhibition selection juries.
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