Artists in the United States worked in a variety of styles outside of Abstract Expressionism, Minimalism, and Pop, including other forms of abstraction all their own.
1945 - 1980
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Isamu Noguchi, Gregory (Effigy)
Recalling ancient art and modern literature, Noguchi's sculpture pulls on ideas of the fixed/eternal and the fluid/present.
Joe Overstreet, Boxes
Overstreet's tent-like painting combines the artist's interest in color field painting and the Black Arts Movement.
Lee Bontecou, Untitled (No. 25)
Bontecou's steel and canvas form appears both threatening and vulnerable, situated squarely in the Cold War era that it was created.
Alma Thomas, Lunar Rendezvous—Circle of Flowers
Thomas takes inspiration from both the 1969 moon landing and her backyard garden
Gee’s Bend, quilting over generations
Gee's Bend quilts challenge notions of what is — and what is not — modern art.
Ruth Asawa, Untitled
Taking cues from Mexican basket-weaving, Asawa creates diaphanous abstract forms from woven wire.
