Collection

1940s

• Gertrude Abercrombie, The Courtship, 1949

  
• Gertrude Abercrombie, Bowl of Grapes, 1945

  
• Francis Bacon, Study for a Portrait, 1949

  
• Balthus (Count Balthazar Klossowski de Rola), Étude pour La Semaine des quatre jeudis, 1949

  
• William Baziotes, The Sleepwalker, 1949

  

  A vertically framed abstract painting is rendered in black, white, and yellow. A yellow circle is...

  1. Short A vertically framed abstract painting is rendered in black, white, and yellow. A yellow circle is in the center, with geometric black and white shapes bisecting each other.
• Forrest Bess, Landscape with Sun, 1948

  
• Forrest Bess, Seascape with Moon, 1947

  
• Forrest Bess, Seascape with Sun, 1947

  
• Forrest Bess, Dedication to van Gogh, 1946

  
• Victor Brauner, The Knight, August, 1949, 1949

  
• Paul Delvaux, Penelope, 1945

  

  In this painting, a light-skinned, dark-haired woman in an ornate deep purple dress stands next t...

  1. Short In this painting, a light-skinned, dark-haired woman in an ornate deep purple dress stands next to a dark body of water, posed with her hands aloft. Two partially nude people stand and a lounge in the background.
• O. Louis Guglielmi, The Bridge, 1942

  
• Wifredo Lam, Annunciation, 1944

  
• Wifredo Lam, Anamu, 1942

  
• Ellen Lanyon, Untitled, c. 1948

  
• Matta (Roberto Matta Echaurren), A Grave Situation, 1946

  
• Matta (Roberto Matta Echaurren), Untitled (Prime Ordeal), 1946

  
• Kurt Seligmann, Baphomet, 1948

  

  Eerily illustrated humanoid forms appear to be made of ragged paper or fabric. These figures stan...

  1. Short Eerily illustrated humanoid forms appear to be made of ragged paper or fabric. These figures stand on surreal geometric platforms.
• Kurt Seligmann, Shooting Gallery, 1948

  
• Ben Shahn, Seurat's Lunch, c. 1949

  
• George Tooker, Children and Spastics, 1946

  
• H.C. Westermann, Religious Painting, c. 1940s