Advanced and Irascible: Abstract Expressionism from the Collection of Jeanne and Carroll Berry
Jan 14, 2017 - Apr 30, 2017
This exhibition showcases Jeanne and Carroll Berry鈥檚 efforts to gather one work by each of the so-called 鈥淚rascible鈥� painters of abstract expressionism. The Irascibles earned their nickname after sending a signed, open letter to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to protest the lack of what they called 鈥渁dvanced鈥� art in its exhibition of contemporary artists in 1950. A photograph of them that appeared in Life Magazine in 1951 became the defining image of the abstract expressionists for the remainder of the 20th century.
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This exhibition showcases Jeanne and Carroll Berry鈥檚 efforts to gather one work by each of the so-called 鈥淚rascible鈥� painters of abstract expressionism. The Irascibles earned their nickname after sending a signed, open letter to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to protest the lack of what they called 鈥渁dvanced鈥� art in its exhibition of contemporary artists in 1950. A photograph of them that appeared in Life Magazine in 1951 became the defining image of the abstract expressionists for the remainder of the 20th century.
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