Collection

1950s

• Gertrude Abercrombie, Giraffe House, 1954

  
• Gertrude Abercrombie, Switches, 1952

  
• Harold Allen, Church, Chilili, New Mexico, 1955

  
• Milton Avery, Red Hills, 1953

  
• William Baziotes, Cat, 1950

  
• Harry Bertoia, Landscape Fantasy, c. 1950

  
• Forrest Bess, Homage to Ryder, 1951

  
• On viewForrest Bess, Wheatfield, c. 1951

  
• Forrest Bess, Untitled, c. 1950

  
• On viewAlexander Calder, Bird, c. 1952

  

  A bird sculpture with wings extended appears to be made out of found materials like a soup can an...

  1. Short A bird sculpture with wings extended appears to be made out of found materials like a soup can and rusted wire.
• Alexander Calder, Snow Flurries, 1951

  
• Cosmo Campoli, Sketch for Sculpture, 1953

  

  Black-and-white drawing of a mother bird feeding four baby birds

  1. Short Black-and-white drawing of a mother bird feeding four baby birds
• Cosmo Campoli, Birth of Death, 1950

  
• George Cohen, Limbus, 1959

  
• George Cohen, Hermes, 1957

  
• George Cohen, Queenie, 1955

  
• George Cohen, Emblem for an Unknown Nation #1, 1954

  
• Jose Luis Cuevas, Funeral of a Dictator, c. 1958

  
• Burgoyne Diller, 2nd Theme, 1951

  
• Jean Dubuffet, Un tour au bon air, 1955

  

  An ink drawing of an abstract person whose silhouette is outlined in black and filled with grey a...

  1. Short An ink drawing of an abstract person whose silhouette is outlined in black and filled with grey and black shapes, scribbles, and splotches and who stands on a two-tone grey background.
• On viewJean Dubuffet, La Verrue sous le nez (Wart Under the Nose), 1951

  

  A very loosely rendered portrait implies the shoulders and head of a person wearing a hat. There ...

  1. Short A very loosely rendered portrait implies the shoulders and head of a person wearing a hat. There are no discerning features other than ears, eyes, a nose, and a mouth.
• Max Ernst, Loplop Introducing a Bird, 1929/1957

  
• On viewMax Ernst, Red Owl, 1952

  
• Leon Golub, Head II, 1959

  
• On viewLeon Golub, Reclining Youth, 1959

  

  In a muddled scene of faded gray, blue, and pink colors, a human form is vaguely defined by a mor...

  1. Short Desaturated colors of paint vaguely articulate a human form reclining.
  2. Long In a muddled scene of faded gray, blue, and pink colors, a human form is vaguely defined by a more precise application of color and darker marks. The person reclines against one hand, their legs extending in the other direction.
• Leon Golub, Head XIII, 1958

  
• Leon Golub, Head XXIII, 1958

  
• Leon Golub, The Dying Gaul, c. 1955

  
• Joseph Goto, Untitled, c. 1956

  
• Morris Graves, Pink Bird, 1951

  
• Theodore Halkin, Elephant Horns, 1950–51

  
• Richard Hunt, Untitled, 1958

  
• John Kearney, Starving Bitch, 1959

  
• Ed Kienholz, Untitled, c. 1958

  
• On viewFranz Kline, Vawdavitch, 1955

  
• June Leaf, Woman in Landscape, 1959

  
• June Leaf, Arcade Women, 1956

  
• June Leaf, Red Painting, 1954

  
• On viewRené Magritte, Les merveilles de la nature (The Wonders of Nature), 1953

  

  Two mossy stone figures with human legs and fish torsos sit leaning against each other on a mossy...

  1. Short Two mossy stone figures with human legs and fish torsos sit leaning against each other on a mossy stone by the seashore. On the horizon the shape of a double-masted sailing vessel made out of water rises out of the sea and cuts into the blue, cloud-filled sky.
• Marisol (Marisol Escobar), Printer's Box, 1956

  
• Matta (Roberto Matta Echaurren), Astral Flight, 1957

  
• On viewMatta (Roberto Matta Echaurren), Conference, 1957

  
• Matta (Roberto Matta Echaurren), Let's Phosphoresce by Intellection #1, 1950

  
• Kerig Pope, Girl in Striped Socks Singing, 1959

  
• Charlotte Posenenske, Grid (Semi-Circles), 1957

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• Rick Prol, Untitled, c. 1950

  
• Martin Ramirez, Two Bandits, c. 1950

  
• George Rickey, Aspen II, 1954

  
• Seymour Rosofsky, Operating Room, 1955

  
• Art Shay, Nelson Algren and (Jean-Paul Sartre's) lover Simone de Beauvoir in Chicago, 1952

  
• Richard Stankiewicz, Middle-Aged Couple, 1954

  
• On viewDorothea Tanning, Sleeping Nude, 1954

  

  Painted in a traditional style, a light-skinned nude woman with wide hips reclines on a red surfa...

  1. Short Painted in a traditional style, a light-skinned nude woman with wide hips reclines on a red surface. The top half of the painting, including most of her face, collapses into abstract shapes like crumpled fabric.
• Joyce Treiman, Angel for Abraham, c. 1952

  
• H.C. Westermann, Mad House, 1958

  
• On viewH.C. Westermann, Memorial to the Idea of Man If He Was an Idea, 1958

  
• H.C. Westermann, Death Ship of No Port, 1957

  
• H.C. Westermann, He Whore, 1957

  

  A hollow, cylindrical sculpture made of wood with simplified legs and a face. It is sticking its ...

  1. Short A hollow, cylindrical sculpture made of wood with simplified legs and a face. It is sticking its tongue out.
• H.C. Westermann, Two Acrobats and A Fleeing Man, 1957

  
• H.C. Westermann, The Old Eccentric's House, 1956–57

  
• H.C. Westermann, Chicago Industrial Area, c. 1954–55

  
• H.C. Westermann, City, 1954

  
• H.C. Westermann, City Woman (Chicago), 1954

  
• H.C. Westermann, Untitled, c. 1954–55

  
• Brett Weston, California, 1954

  

  An abstract black-and-white image shows a smeared gray vertical section in the middle surrounded ...

  1. Short An abstract black-and-white image shows a smeared gray vertical section in the middle surrounded by mottled black.