If asked to identify an abstract painting, most people will readily point to one of Picasso”s works or Salvador Dali”s “Persistence of Time.” Although cubism and surrealism are the unmistakable norm ...

FOR half a century art critics have undertaken to address not a sophisticated minority like the readers of literary magazines, but the mass of unbelievers to whom twentieth-century art is a mystery or ...

My painting / Jackson Pollock -- The romantics were prompted ; Two statements from The tiger's eye / Mark Rothko -- The first man was an artist ; The sublime is now ; Ohio, 1949 / Barnett Newman -- ...

Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center. Contact Reference Services for more information. Art periodical created by Philip ...