Abstract Expressionists

No. 12

Mark Rothko — Wed, 01 Jun 1949 00:00:00 -0400

Title	No. 12
Artist	Mark Rothko
Date	1949
Institution	Walker Art Center
Location	Not on view.

4 rectangles of color

No. 2

Mark Rothko — Sat, 01 Jun 1963 00:00:00 -0400

Title	No. 2
Artist	Mark Rothko
Date	1963
Institution	Walker Art Center
Location	On view at the Walker Art Center, Gallery 6

Dark brown painting

Mark Rothko, No. 2 (track 1)

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0400

Title	Mark Rothko, No. 2 (track 1)
Creator	Art on Call
Date	November 19, 2009
Institution	Walker Art Center

Walker curator, Joan Rothfuss.

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Clyfford Still, untitled (1950-C) (1950)

Mon, 01 Jun 1998 00:00:00 -0400

Title	Clyfford Still, untitled (1950-C) (1950)
Author	Walker Art Center
Date	1998
Institution	Walker Art Center

For Clyfford Still, a single painting such as Untitled (1950-C) was comparable to an entry in a journal recording his interior experience. He described his artistic process as a solitary ethical journey, and each painting as an "instrument of thought," an extension and exaltation of his self and its contradictions.

The artist's aim was to relieve color of its traditionally "pleasant, luminous, and symbolic" aspects, and to heighten its expressive potential through selection, juxtaposition, and method of application. In this work, Still employed texture as a central element. The heavy impasto surface of the black contrasts with the smooth surface of the mineral-orange pigment. The act of painting is evident through the visible impressions of his brush strokes and palette-knife scrapings on the surface of the canvas.

untitled (1950-C)

Clyfford Still — Thu, 01 Jun 1950 00:00:00 -0400

Title	untitled (1950-C)
Artist	Clyfford Still
Date	1950
Institution	Walker Art Center
Location	On view at the Walker Art Center, Gallery 6

Night

Willem de Kooning — Tue, 01 Jun 1948 00:00:00 -0400

Title	Night
Artist	Willem de Kooning
Date	1948
Institution	Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Location	On view at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, G376

Abstraction.

Cubi IX

David Smith — Thu, 01 Jun 1961 00:00:00 -0400

Title	Cubi IX
Artist	David Smith
Date	1961
Institution	Walker Art Center
Location	Not on view.

Circle and Arcs

David Smith — Thu, 01 Jun 1961 00:00:00 -0400

Title	Circle and Arcs
Artist	David Smith
Date	1961
Institution	Walker Art Center
Location	Not on view.

A sculpture composed of painted steel circles and arcs, supported by a single steel tube, that branches into four legs.

Woman

Willem de Kooning — Sun, 01 Jun 1952 00:00:00 -0400

Title	Woman
Artist	Willem de Kooning
Date	circa 1952
Institution	Walker Art Center
Location	Not on view.

Abstract female figure

Kleinwelt (Small World)

Paul Klee ; Published by Verlag Gustav Kiepenheuer, Weimar, Germany — Mon, 01 Jun 1914 00:00:00 -0500

Title	Kleinwelt (Small World)
Artist	Paul Klee ; Published by Verlag Gustav Kiepenheuer, Weimar, Germany
Date	1914 (published 1918)
Institution	Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Location	Not on view.

printed in black; abstract image with stick figures, body parts, heads, flower shapes and abstract designs

Calamar VI

Hans Platschek — Sun, 01 Jun 1958 00:00:00 -0400

Title	Calamar VI
Artist	Hans Platschek
Date	1958
Institution	Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Location	Not on view.

Babel Unleashed

Julie Mehretu — Fri, 01 Jun 2001 00:00:00 -0400

Title	Babel Unleashed
Artist	Julie Mehretu
Date	2001
Institution	Walker Art Center
Location	Not on view.

Abstract Expressionists

No. 12

No. 12

1949

No. 2

No. 2

1963

Mark Rothko, No. 2 (track 1)

Mark Rothko, No. 2 (track 1)

Art on Call

November 19, 2009

Clyfford Still, untitled (1950-C) (1950)

Clyfford Still, untitled (1950-C) (1950)

Walker Art Center

1998

untitled (1950-C)

untitled (1950-C)

1950

Night

Night

1948

Cubi IX

Cubi IX

1961

Circle and Arcs

Circle and Arcs

1961

Woman

Woman

circa 1952

Kleinwelt (Small World)

Kleinwelt (Small World)

1914 (published 1918)

Calamar VI

Calamar VI

1958

Babel Unleashed

Babel Unleashed

2001