The Abstract Expressionism Chronology
G. Comenas (London, 2008)
Abstract Expressionism | Contents | 1800-1899 | | 1900-1909 | 1910-1919 | 1920-1924 | 1925-1927 | 1928-1929 | 1930 | 1931 | 1932 | 1933 | 1934 | 1935 | 1936 | 1937 | 1938 | 1939 | 1940 | 1941 | 1942 | 1943 | 1944 | 1945 (a) | 1945 (b) | 1946 | 1947 | 1948 (a) | 1948 (b) | 1949 | 1950 | 1951 | 1952 | 1953 | 1954 | 1955 | 1956 | 1957 | 1958 | 1959 | 1960 | 1961 | 1962 | 1963 | 1964 | 1965 | 1966 | 1967 | 1968 | 1969 | 1970-1974 | 1975-1979 | 1980+ | Contact | Sources | Search | Warholstars
Table of Contents
(Page One: 1800-1934)
Page Two: 1935-1944 | Three: 1945-1954 | Four: 1955-1964 | Five: 1965-1980+
Click on a year:
1800 - 1899: The Art Students League
America's "oldest public art museum" opens.
Robert Henri is born. John Sloan is born.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art opens.
Jackson Pollock's mother is born.
The Art Students League is founded.
John Graham is born.
Marcel Duchamp is born.
Milton Avery is born.
Stuart Davis is born.
André Breton is born.
Sidney Janis is born.
Kay Sage is born.
Peggy Guggenheim is born.
Bradley Walker Tomlin is born.Yves Tanguy is born in Paris.
Betty Parsons is born.
Jack Tworkov is born in Biala, Poland.
Valentine Dudensing is born.
Adolph Gottlieb is born in New York.
Mark Rothko is born in Dvinsk.
Willem de Kooning is born in Rotterdam.
Meyer Schapiro is born in Lithuania.
Clyfford Still is born.
Barnett Newman is born in New York.
Misha Reznikoff is born in Kabilia, Russia.
Wolfgang Robert Paalen is born in Baden.
John Ferren is born.
The 291 Gallery opens.
Harold Rosenberg is born in New York.
James Brooks is born.
Leo Castelli is born.
Exhibition of "The Eight" opens at the Macbeth Gallery.
Stuart Davis studies art at Robert Henri's school.
Clement Greenberg is born."Exhibition of Independent Artists" takes place in New York.
Phillip Pavia is born in Connecticut.
Franz Kline is born.
Barnett Newman's family moves to the Bronx.
Roberto Sebastián Antonio Matta Echaurren is born.
Art dealer Charles Egan is born.
Jackson Pollock is born.
William Baziotes is born.
John Cage is born.
Jackson Pollock moves to San Diego.
The Armory Show takes place.
Conrad Marca-Relli is born.
Philip Guston is born.
Mark Rothko arrives in the U.S.A.
Jackson Pollock's father, LeRoy, buys a farm in Arizona.
Peter Busa is born.
Mark Rothko's father dies.
Franz Ferdinand is murdered at Sarajevo: World War I begins.
Mark Rothko and his family move to 232 Lincoln Avenue in Portland, Oregon.
Robert Motherwell is born.
Mark Rothko and family move to 538 2nd Street in Portland Oregon.
The Battle of Van (and the Armenian Genocide) begins.
John Sloan begins teaching at the Art Students League.
Katherine Dreier becomes a member of the Board of Trustees of the Society of Independent Artists.
Stuart Davis and John Sloan resign from Masses magazine.
The New York Times announces exhibition planned by the Society of Independent Artists.
David Hare is born.
Society of Independent Artists exhibition at the Grand Central Palace.
Franz Kline's father commits suicide.
The Motherwells move to California.
The Pollocks purchase a farm.
First issue of The Liberator is published.
Robert Motherwell in Salt Lake City Utah.
Adolph Gottlieb drops out of high school.
Franz Kline enrolls at Girard College.
Barnett Newman attends high school.The Pollocks move from Chico to Janesville.
Arshile Gorky and his sister arrive in the U.S.
Franz Kline's mother remarries.
The first exhibition of the Société Anonyme opens.
Adolph Gottlieb enrolls in a life drawing class at the Parsons School of Design.
Arshile Gorky becomes Archie Gunn.
Jackson Pollock's father leaves his wife.
Arshile Gorky leaves his father and moves in with his sisters.
First solo exhibition of Kandinsky in the United States.
Adolph Gottlieb enrolls in John Sloan's class at the Art Students League.
Marcel Duchamp publishes New York dada.
Société Anonyme celebrates its first birthday with "“An Evening with Gertrude Stein."
Jackson Pollock and family move to to Orland.
Adolph Gottlieb goes to Europe.
Mark Rothko graduates from high school.
Mark Rothko enters Yale University.
Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp leave New York for Paris.
Charles Pollock drops out of high school.
Barnett Newman takes classes at the Art Students League.
Jackson Pollock's brother, Charles, arrives in Los Angeles.
The first issue of The Young Worker is published.
The first issue of the Labor Herald is published.
Arshile Gorky enrolls at Boston's New School of Design.
Adolph Gottlieb enrolls in John Sloan's painting class at the Art Students League.
Jackson Pollock's mother, Stella, sells the Orland property.
Mark Rothko and two college friends start The Yale Saturday Evening Pest.
The Pollocks move back to Phoenix, Arizona.
Gorky's sister Vartoosh marries Moorad Mooradian.
Arshile Gorky's father marries Akabi Shaljian.
Barnett Newman begins full-time study at the Art Students League.
Jackson Pollock enrolls in the sixth grade of Monroe Elementary School in Phoenix.
Barnett Newman enrolls in the City College of New York.
Mark Rothko quits Yale.
Jackson Pollock severs his right index finger.
Jackson Pollock visits his brother Charles in Los Angeles.
Arshile Gorky paints a president a minute.
The Liberator is reorganized.
André Breton publishes his Manifesto of Surrealism in France.
The Dudensing Gallery opens in New York.
J. B. Neumann opens a gallery in New York.
Adolph Gottlieb graduates from John Sloan's class at the Art Students League and later rents a studio.
Vladimir Lenin dies.
Arshile Gorky visits John Singer Sargent exhibition in New York.
The Pollocks move from Phoenix.
Jackson Pollock's mother, Stella, rents a small house in Riverside, California.
The first issue of Workers Monthly is published.
The U.S. passes the Immigration Act of 1924.1925 - 1927: The Artist and His Mother
Arshile Gorky is admitted to the National Academy of Design in New York City.
Franz Kline moves in with his mother and step-father.
Exhibition of the Blue Four at the Daniel Gallery.
Clyfford Still studies at the Art Students' League - for forty five minutes.
Arshile Gorky attends the Grand Central School of Art in New York.
Mark Rothko enrolls again at the Art Students League.
Arshile Gorky's sister, Vartoosh, and her husband, Moorad, join the Communist Party.
The Motherwells move to California.
Adolph Gottlieb studies at the Art Students League and the Educational Alliance.
Jackson Pollock's brother, Charles, moves to New York.
The Downtown Gallery opens.
Arshile Gorky begins painting The Artist and His Mother.
The first issue of New Masses is published.
Frank O'Hara is born in Baltimore.
Willem De Kooning arrives in the United States.
Jackson Pollock enrolls in Manual Training School, Riverside.
Franz Kline enrolls in Lehighton Junior High.
Arshile Gorky appears in the New York Evening Post.
“An International Exhibition of Modern Art Assembled by the Société Anonyme" at the Brooklyn Museum opens.
Franz Kline's freshman year at Lehighton High School in Pennsylvania.
Stuart Davis paints his Egg Beater series.
The Gallatin Gallery of Living Art opens.
Barnett Newman graduates from City College of New York.
Jackson Pollock works at the Grand Canyon.
Sacco and Vanzetti are executed.
Mark Rothko illustrates The Graphic Bible.
Jackson Pollock enrolls at Riverside High School.
Jackson Pollock's father apologises to his son.Arshile Gorky meets John Graham.
Jackson Pollock drops out of Riverside High School.
The Pollocks move to Los Angeles.
Franz Kline's sophomore year at Lehighton HIgh School.
Jackson Pollock enrolls at Manual Arts High School.
Mark Rothko shows at the Opportunity Gallery.
The John Reed Club is founded.
Willem de Kooning falls in love with a tightrope walker.
Adolph Gottlieb exhibits at the Opportunity Gallery.
Arshile Gorky meets Ruth French.
Barnett Newman attends the Art Students League again.
The term, "Abstract Expressionism," is first used in the United States.
Jackson Pollock and Philip Guston are suspended.
Willem de Kooning befriends John Graham.
Arshile Gorky meets Stuart Davis.
Mark Rothko teaches at the Center Academy.
Jackson Pollock has a fist fight with his father.
Arshile Gorky takes a studio at 36 Union Square.
Franz Kline's junior year at Lehighton High School in Pennsylvania.
Robert Motherwell attends Moran Preparatory School.
Jackson Pollock returns to Manual Arts HIgh School.
The American stock market crashes.
Willem de Kooning befriends Arshile Gorky.
The Museum of Modern Art opens.
Willem de Kooning works as window dresser.1930: The Jumble Shop and Romany Marie's
"Painting in Paris" exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art.
Philip Guston paints Mother and Child.
Milton Avery moves to 72nd Street.
Arshile Gorky visits his girlfriend's father in an insane asylum.
Willem de Kooning, John Graham, Stuart Davis and Arshile Gorky hang out.
"Weber, Klee, Lehmbruck, Maillol" exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art.
Arshile Gorky exhibits at The Museum of Modern Art.
Adolph Gottlieb has his first one-man show - at the Dudensing Gallery in New York.
The Chrysler Building opens.
Willem de Kooning goes to Woodstock.
Jackson Pollock's brothers visit Jackson in L.A.
Willem de Kooning and Nini move house.
Willem De Kooning's girlfriend has an abortion.
"Picasso Drawings and Gouaches" at the John Becker Gallery.
Franz Kline has an operation.
Philip Guston enrolls at the Otis Art Institute.
Miró's first solo exhibition in America at the Valentine Gallery.
Jackson Pollock moves to New York and enrolls at the Art Students League."Special Exhibition Arranged in Honour of the Opening of the New Building of the New School for Social Research" opens.
Barnett Newman works as a substitute teacher.
Barnett Newman meets Milton Avery.
Mrs. John D. Rockefeller buys Arshile Gorky's Fruit.
The Empire State Building opens to the public.
Franz Kline graduates from high school.
Jackson Pollock's brother Charles marries Elizabeth England.
"Paintings, Water-colours, Drawings, Sculptures by Leading Contemporary American Artists" exhibition at the Downtown Gallery.
Jackson Pollock and Manuel Tolegian hitchhike to Los Angeles.
Franz Kline enrolls in college.
Jackson Pollock starts his second year at the Art Students League.
Article on Stuart Davis by Arshile Gorky appears in Creative Art.
"Artists' Models: Figure Paintings by Leading Contemporary American Artists" at the Downtown Gallery.
The Whitney Museum of American Art opens in New York.
"Henri Matisse" exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art.
"American Printmakers: Fifth Annual Exhibition" at the Downtown Gallery.
Arshile Gorky joins the unemployed.1932: Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
"Surrealism Paintings, Drawings & Photographs" exhibition at the Julien Levy Gallery.
First Miró solo exhibition at Pierre Matisse.
Arshile Gorky and Sirun Mussikian split up.
Willem de Kooning and Nini move to Greenwich Village.
Barnett Newman gets a teaching position at Grover Cleveland High School.
"The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti" exhibition at the Downtown Gallery.
Arshile Gorky's sister Vartoosh and her husband Moorad return to Armenia.
Adolph Gottlieb marries Esther Dick.
Jackson Pollock meets David Alfaro Siqueiros.
The ACA Gallery opens on Madison Avenue.
Jackson Pollock moves into 46 Carmine Street.
Robert Motherwell attends Stanford University.
Jackson Pollock becomes a class monitor.
"Surrealiste" exhibition by Max Ernst at the Julien Levy Gallery.
Mark Rothko marries Edith Sachar.
Bing Crosby records Brother Can You Spare a Dime?
Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected U.S. President.
Philip Guston and Reuben Kadish paint murals for the Los Angeles branch of the John Reed Club.
Thomas Hart Benton's murals, Arts of Life in America, are unveiled at the Whitney Museum.Jackson Pollock is taught by John Sloan.
Adolph Hitler becomes Chancellor of the Third Reich.
Modern Man in Search of a Soul by Carl Jung is published in the United States.
William Baziotes moves to New York.
Philip Guston exhibits for the first time.
Barnett Newman rents a studio in Greenwich Village.
Balcomb Greene returns to New York.
Hans Hofmann opens a school in New York.
Los Angeles police raid the John Reed Club.
Nazis raid the German Communist Headquarters.
A fire breaks out at the Reichstag.
Franklin D. Roosevelt is inaugurated.
Diego Rivera paints Man at the Crossroads.
Jackson Pollock's father dies.
The formation of the first concentration camp in Germany is announced.
Jackson Pollock drops out.
Philip Guston exhibits Mother and Child.
Jackson and Charles Pollock rent a floor.
George Biddle writes to Franklin D. Roosevelt.
The Nazis burn books.
Clyfford Still graduates.
Mark Rothko exhibits in Portland.
Adolph Gottlieb rents a place in East Gloucester.
Jackson Pollock moves to 8th Street.
Thomas Hart Benton returns to New York.
Jackson Pollock is hospitalized.
Germany withdraws from the League of Nations.
Adolph Gottlieb moves to Brooklyn.
Barnett Newman runs for mayor.
Mark Rothko has first solo exhibition.
Salvador Dali exhibition at the Julien Levy Gallery.
Franz Kline meets Martha Kinney.
The Public Works of Art Project begins.
Arshile Gorky begins painting Portrait of Myself and My Imaginary Wife.Arshile Gorky sketches 1934.
Milton Avery is dropped from the Public Works of Art Project.
Philip Guston, Reuben Kadish and Sande Pollock paint an arch.
David Alfaro Siqueiros arrives in New York.
Barnett Newman meets Annalee.
The Artists' Union is founded.
Arshile Gorky's first one-man show.
Mark Rothko's students exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum.
Arshile Gorky's paintings are trashed.
Arshile Gorky exhibits at "The First Municipal Art Exhibition."
The John Reed Club closes.
Willem de Kooning meets Juliet Browner.
"National Exhibition of Art by the Public Works of Art Project" at the Corcoran Gallery.
Arshile Gorky is dropped from the Public Works of Art Project.
Mark Rothko exhibits at Robert Godsoe's Uptown Gallery.
The PWAP folds.
Arshile Gorky marries Marny George.
Franz Kline meets John Richard Flanagan.
Nutsy gets tattooed.
Philip Guston, Reuben Kadish and Jules Langsner go to Mexico.
Willem de Kooning has a ménage à trois in Wooodstock.
Arshile Gorky spends the summer in Watertown.
Clyfford Still attends Yaddo.
Jackson Pollock paints Martha's Vineyard.
Jackson Pollock moves to West Houston Street.
The Section of Painting and Sculpture is launched.
Sande Pollock moves in with Jackson Pollock.
Artists march on City Hall.
Art Front is published.
Salvador Dali exhibition at the Julien Levy Gallery.
Jackson Pollock drips.
Mark Rothko lives at 724 Nostrand Avenue in Brooklyn.
Arshile Gorky's sister returns from Armenia.
The Gallery Secesssion opens.
Abstract Expressionism | Contents | 1800-1899 | | 1900-1909 | 1910-1919 | 1920-1924 | 1925-1927 | 1928-1929 | 1930 | 1931 | 1932 | 1933 | 1934 | 1935 | 1936 | 1937 | 1938 | 1939 | 1940 | 1941 | 1942 | 1943 | 1944 | 1945 (a) | 1945 (b) | 1946 | 1947 | 1948 (a) | 1948 (b) | 1949 | 1950 | 1951 | 1952 | 1953 | 1954 | 1955 | 1956 | 1957 | 1958 | 1959 | 1960 | 1961 | 1962 | 1963 | 1964 | 1965 | 1966 | 1967 | 1968 | 1969 | 1970-1974 | 1975-1979 | 1980+ | Contact | Sources | Search | Warholstars