JNG presents a selection of works on paper showing different types of abstraction. On view are 2 watercolors by
Cezanne in which the subject matter begins in nature and evolves into the application of color; a late watercolor on painted black paper by
Kandinsky; several highly colored geometric abstractions from the 1940s by French artist August Herbin, who inspired op and pop art; several 鈥淪prays鈥 by American
sculptor David Smith; and two
works by Norman Bluhm who practiced gestural abstraction
inspired by Sam Francis and
Joan Mitchell. Current artists are represented by the second generation color field painter
Kikuo Saito; by the richly painted oil on vellum of
Gerard Moss茅; and by a recent paper construction by
Liliya Lifanova.