New York Figurative Expressionism is a visual arts movement and a branch of American Figurative Expressionism. Though the movement dates to the 1930s, it was not formally classified as "figurative exp
Marsden Hartley's 1941 painting of "Lobster Fishermen" inspired by fishermen from his home state of Maine.
Marsden Hartley's "Adelard the Drowned, Master of the Phantom," 1939.
Max Weber's sculpture "Aurora," 1937.
Edwin Dickinson's "Portrait of Biala," 1924.
Elaine de Kooning
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Elaine Marie Catherine de Kooning was an American painter and art critic. A key contributor to the abstract expressionist and Figurative Expressionist movements, she wrote extensively on the art of th
New York Figurative Expressionism
…notably Larry Rivers (1923–2002) and Grace Hartigan (1922–). For many others, the figure served as the logical subject of representational portraiture: Elaine de Kooning (1918–1989); Balcomb Greene, (1904–1990); Robert De Niro Sr. (1920–1993); Fairfield Porter, (1907–1975); Gregorio Prestopino (1907–1984); Lester Johnson…
Elaine de Kooning c. 1974
Bacchus #3 (1978), National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.