The Abstract Expressionism Chronology
G. Comenas (London, 2008)
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Page One: 1800-1934 | Three: 1945-1954 | Four: 1955-1964 | Five: 1965-1980+
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Milton Avery joins the F. Valentine Dudensing Gallery.
Willem de Kooning meets Rudy Burckhardt and Edwin Denby.
"Abstract Painting in America" at the Whitney Museum.
Jackson Pollock paints a lewd mural.
Jackson Pollock exhibits for the first time at a museum.
Adolph Gottlieb attends "African Negro Art" at The Museum of Modern Art.
Arshile Gorky's sister gives birth to Karlen Mooradian.
Germany begins military conscription in violation of the Treaty of Versailles.
Philip Guston appears in Time magazine.
The first Writers' Congress takes place.
Thomas Hart Benton leaves New York.
Barnett Newman manages the Theater Troupe.
First organizational meeting of the American Artists' Congress.
Barnett Newman studies teaching.
Willem de Kooning's mother arrives from Holland.
Pierre Laval signs (initials) the Franco-Russian military pact.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt begins the Works Progress Administration (WPA).
Clyfford Still gets a Master of Fine Arts.
Germany signs the Anglo-German naval agreement.
Hans Hofmann opens a summer school in Provincetown.
Barnett Newman rents a studio on W. 13th Street.
Robert Motherwell visits Europe.
Adolph Gottlieb visits Paris.
The Treasury Relief Art Project (TRAP) begins.
The Popular Front is endorsed.
The Federal Art Project is launched.
Artists hang out at Stewart's Cafeteria.
Charles Pollock moves to Washington, D.C.
Jackson Pollock and Arshile Gorky join the Federal Art Project (WPA).
Jackson Pollock moves back to 46 E. 8th Street.
Philip Guston moves to New York and changes his name.
Arshile Gorky exhibits at the Boyer Galleries.
Hugh Stix opens the Artists' Gallery.
Fernand Léger at The Museum of Modern Art.
Giorgio de Chirico at the Pierre Matisse Gallery.
Franz Kline goes to England.
Arshile Gorky exhibits at the Guild Art Gallery.
Arshile Gorky dates Mercedes Matter.
Vincent van Gogh at The Museum of Modern Art.
"American Artists' Congress Exhibition" at the ACA Gallery. Arshile Gorky lectures.
Arshile Gorky submits aviation mural designs to the Federal Art Project (WPA).
Mark Rothko moves to Great Jones Street.
Willem de Kooning quits A.S. Beck.
Nutsy moves in with Franz Kline.
Arshile Gorky exhibits (again) at the Guild Art Gallery.
The Ten exhibit at the Montross Gallery.
Arshile Gorky exhibits preliminary aviation mural work at the New York Federal Project Gallery.1936: Fantastic Art, Dada and Surrealism
Exhibition of The Ten at the Municipal Art Gallery.
Barnett Newman publishes The Answer.
Arshile Gorky works on Newark Airport murals.
Joan Miró at the Pierre Matisse Gallery.
Adolph Gottlieb joins the Artists' Union and the WPA.
Art dealer Julien Levy publishes Surrealism.
Willem de Kooning moves to W. 22nd St.
Willem de Kooning meets Mark Rothko.
The American Abstract Artists group is formed.
The First American Artists' Congress Against War and Fascism takes place.
Cubism and Abstract Art exhibition takes place at The Museum of Modern Art.
Mexican muralist David Siqueiros sets up a Laboratory of Modern Techniques in Art.
Franz Kline moves to Westbourne Grove.
Franz Kline attends Heatherley's School of Fine Art and frequents the British Museum.
The Artists' Union has a convention.
Arshile Gorky paints Xhorkom (Khorkum).
Franz Kline's flatmate leaves London for Singapore.
Mark Rothko writes a book?
Arshile Gorky drops Wyatt Davis.
Barnett Newman gets married.
Franz Kline is visited by his high school English teacher.
Mark Rothko applies to TRAP.
Jackson Pollock attends his brother's wedding.
Arshile Gorky falls in love with artist Carinne West.
Jackson Pollock and Philip Guston view José Clemente Orozco's mural The Epic of American Civilization.
Barnett Newman and wife return to New York from Maine and rent an apartment in Chelsea.
Jackson Pollock has another car accident.
John Ferren exhibition at the Pierre Matisse Gallery.
"New Horizons in American Art" exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art.
Jackson Pollock meets Becky Tarwater.
Franz Kline's drawings are published in The Artist.
"De Chirico, Paintings and Gouaches" exhibition at the Julien Levy Gallery.
Arshile Gorky's sister Vartoosh and her husband Moorad move from Gorky's studio to Chicago.
The Ten exhibit in Paris.
The WPA requests a report from Gorky in regard to his airport mural.
Jackson Pollock meets Lee Krasner.
The Ten have a second exhibition at the Montross Gallery.
"Fantastic Art, Dada and Surrealism" exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art.
Martha Kinney leaves Franz Kline.
The Moscow Trials are held.Carl Jung lectures at Yale University.
Retrospective at the Municipal Art Gallery.
Franz Kline meets his future wife.
Adolph Gottlieb does a Post Office mural.
Philip Guston marries Musa McKim.
System and Dialectics of Art by John Graham is published.
Barnett Newman applies for work and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Mark Rothko's wife is dropped from the WPA.
Arshile Gorky sends a letter to his "loveds."
Jackson Pollock proposes to Becky Tarwater.
"Indian Art of the United States" at The Museum of Modern Art.
Jackson Pollock sees a psychiatrist.
Franz Kline exhibition at Heatherly's.
TRAP begins phasing out easel painters in favour of mural painters.
Jackson Pollock exhibits Cotton Pickers at the Temporary Galleries of the Municipal Art Committee at 62 West 53rd Street.
Arshile Gorky paints Willem de Kooning.
Barnett Newman fails a teaching exam.
Adolph Gottlieb attends "Prehistoric Rock Pictures in Europe and Africa" at The Museum of Modern Art.
"Paintings by Paul Cézanne from the Museum" at The Museum of Modern Art.
Exhibition of The Ten at the Georgette Passedoit Gallery.
Mark Rothko is re-assigned to the Easel Division of the Federal Art Project.
Robert Motherwell attends Harvard University.
Mark Rothko and his wife separate.
Arshile Gorky's murals are unveiled at the Newark Airport.
Jackson Pollock travels to Chilmark.
All WPA workers have to be American citizens.
Franz Kline travels from London to Wales.
Franz Kline continues his relationship with Elizabeth V. Parsons in Notting Hill Gate.
Jackson Pollock exhibits a watercolour in the first exhibition of the new WPA Federal Art Gallery.
Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting at the Whitney Museum.
Adolph Gottlieb and wife live in the desert.
Second American Artists' Congress takes place.
Partisan Review resumes publication with new staff.
Willem de Kooning works on a mural for the World's Fair.
Jackson Pollock gets drunk in Kansas City.Peggy Guggenheim opens Guggenheim Jeune.
Picasso at the Valentine Dudensing Gallery.
Barnett Newman fails an exam.
Franz Kline departs London for the U.S.
Arshile Gorky paints a Valentine for Leonore Gallet.
Mark Rothko becomes an American citizen.
Adolph Gottlieb paints circus performers.
Barnett Newman fails again.
Stuart Davis and Raphael Soyer support Moscow Trials.
"The Second Annual Membership Exhibition: American Artists' Congress" exhibition.
"Trois Siecles d'Art aux Etats Unis" at the Musée du Jeu de Paume.
"Federal Art Projects - Murals for the Community" at the Federal Art Gallery.
Robert Motherwell lives in Europe.
Jackson Pollock is dismissed from the Federal Art Project.
Jackson Pollock is admitted into Bloomingdale Asylum.
Adolph Gottlieb leaves Arizona.
André Breton signs Leon Trotsky's manifesto: "Towards a Free Revolutionary Art."
Mark Rothko and his wife move to East 6th Street.
Juliet Browner moves out.
Yves Tanguy at Guggenheim Jeune.
Arshile Gorky goes to Provincetown.
Franz Kline moves to New York.
Adolph Gottlieb returns to New York.
Willem de Kooning meets Elaine Fried.
Arshile Gorky gets a commission for the World's Fair.
The New York Times announces the formation of the American Veterans Society of Artists.
The Whitney Annual opens.
"The Ten: Whitney Dissenters" exhibition at the Mercury Galleries.
"What's Wrong with American Art" is broadcast on WNYC radio.
Jackson Pollock is accepted to the easel division of the Federal Art Project.
The Ten hold an auction.
Franz Kline marries Elizabeth V. Parsons.
Annalee Newman passes exam to teach secretarial skills.1939: The Surrealist Invasion Begins
Philip Guston paints a mural for the 1939 World's Fair.
Barnett Newman becomes interested in botany.
Joseph Hirshhorn runs an art collectors club.
Clement Greenberg becomes an editor at Partisan Review.
"Figure Paintings" at the Marie Harriman Gallery.
"Picasso before 1910" exhibition at the Perls Gallery.
Defeat of the Coffee-Pepper bill.
Jackson Pollock sees another psychiatrist.
The WPA Federal Art Project begins laying off artists.
Arshile Gorky finishes his mural for the World's Fair.
Jackson Pollock is investigated.
The World's Fair opens.
"Art in Our Time: 10th Anniversary Exhibition" at The Museum of Modern Art.
The Museum of Non-Objective Art opens.
Wolfgang Paalen emigrates from France.
Picasso's Guernica is exhibited at the Valentine Dudensing Gallery.
Arshile Gorky becomes an American citizen.
Franz Kline celebrates his 29th birthday at the opera.
Franz Kline paints a backdrop for a fortune teller.
Dr. Theodore J. Edlich, Jr. visits Franz Kline in his studio.
Peggy Guggenheim closes Guggenheim Jeune.
The Federal Art Project is reorganized as the WPA art program.
Mark Rothko and his wife stay at Trout Lake, New York.
Gordon Onslow Ford rents a chateau in Chemillieu, France.
Arshile Gorky and Willem de Kooning visit Balcomb Greene in Fishkill.
Adolph Gottlieb paints Surrealist sea still-lifes.
400 writers, artists and intellectuals publish a petition in favour of Soviet Union.
The WPA drops Mark Rothko.
Hitler and Stalin sign the Russo-German pact.
Mark Rothko and David Smith end their friendship.
"Avant Garde and Kitsch" by Clement Greenberg is published.
Germany invades Poland.
Mark Rothko sketches Joseph Liss.
France and Great Britain declare war on Germany.
Soviet troops invade Poland. Leonore Gallant visits Arshile Gorky's sister, Vartoosh, in Chicago.
Kurt Seligmann arrives in the United States.
Yves Tanguy arrives in New York.
Matta arrives in New York.
Last exhibition of The Ten.
United States passes the Neutrality Act.
"Picasso: Forty Years of His Art" exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art.
The Soviet Union invades Finland.Mark Rothko separates.
Barnett Newman stops painting.
Miró at the Matisse Gallery.
Joseph Hirshhorn buys forty paintings from MIlton Avery.
Joop Sanders meets Willem de Kooning.
Franz Kline gets evicted.
Marcus Rothkowitz exhibits as Mark Rothko for the first time.
Nicholas Calas arrives in New York.
Willem de Kooning sells some paintings - for $10.
David Smith and Dorothy Dehner move to Bolton Landing.
Willem de Kooning's drawings appear in Harper's Bazaar.
First issue of New York Artist is published.
Barnett Newman painting is exhibited by the Art Teachers Association at the ACA Gallery.
William Baziotes meets Matta.
The American Artists' Congress fails to condemn the invasion of Finland.
Adolph Gottlieb exhibits his Arizona paintings at Hugh Stix's Artists' Gallery.
Germany invades Denmark and Norway.
The New York Times announces the resignation of American Artists' Congress members.
The American Abstract Artists picket the Museum of Modern Art.
Pavel Tchelitchew and Matta exhibition at the Julien Levy Gallery.
Arshile Gorky meets Matta.
Germany invades the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg.
The Battle of France begins.
Germany firebombs de Kooning's place of birth - Rotterdam.
Jackson Pollock is dropped from the WPA.
Stanley William Hayter arrives in the United States.
Gordon Onslow Ford arrives in New York.
Helen Marot dies.
Manuel Tolegian ends his friendship with Jackson Pollock.
Jackson Pollock observes José Clemente Orozco at work.
Italy declares war on Great Britain and France.
Paris is occupied by German troops.
The Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors is founded.
The Emergency Rescue Committee is launched in New York.
Arshile Gorky is rejected for a Guggenheim grant.
Varian Fry arrives in Marseilles to oversee the Emergency Rescue Committee.
Membership of the Museum of Modern Art increases to 7,309.
Franz Kline vacations in Massachusetts.
André Breton writes to Kurt Seligmann regarding exit visas.
Franz Kline begins work on Bleecker Street Tavern murals.
Yves Tanguy marries Kay Sage.
Franz Kline wins a Whitney Museum prize.
Philip Guston is investigated over Work and Play.
The first issue of View magazine is published.
Robert Motherwell enrolls in Columbia University.
Jackson Pollock's analyst moves to San Francisco.
Jackson Pollock befriends John Graham.
Varian Fry and staff are housed at the Château "Hoping-for-Visa."
Kay Sage wires Peggy Guggenheim in Grenoble for help.
Piet Mondrian arrives in New York.
Barnett Newman teaches silkscreening.
Jackson Pollock is rehired for the WPA.
Jackson Pollock registers for the draft.
An organizational meeting of the Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors takes place.
Buy American Art week is held.
"On the Fall of Paris" by Harold Rosenberg is published.
Jackson Pollock, Gerome Kamrowski and William Baziotes drip paint.Essays on a Science of Mythology by Carl Jung and Karl (Károly) Kerényi is published.
Richard Pousette Dart paints Symphony No. 1, the Transcendental.
Mark Rothko moves to mid-town.
Franz Kline moves again.
"Indian Art of the United States" exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art.
Gordon Onslow Ford lectures on Surrealism at the New School.
Adolph Gottlieb and Mark Rothko paint myths.
Arshile Gorky meets Agnes Magruder.
The Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors begins a series of annuals.
Twelve Jackson Pollocks are destroyed.
"New Acquisitions: American Painting and Sculpture" at The Museum of Modern Art.
André Breton emigrates from France.
André Masson emigrates from France.
John Graham solo exhibition at the Artists Gallery.
Mark Rothko complains about the Artists' Coordinating Committee at a meeting of the Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors.
Yves Tanguy and Kay Sage move to Woodbury, Connecticut.
Arshile Gorkys' wife-to-be Agnes Magruder marches under the banner of the Chinese Communists.
André Masson arrives in the United States.
Jackson Pollock undergoes a psychiatric examination to determine his eligibility for military service.
Robert Motherwell travels to Mexico with Matta.
André Breton arrives in the United States.
Adolph Gottlieb begins painting Pictographs.
Barnett Newman and his wife move to 343 East 19th Street.
Barnett Newman's wife gets a master's degree in education from New York University.
Barnett Newman and his wife take classes at Cornell University.
Philip Guston paints Martial Memory.Germany invades the Soviet Union.
Paul Klee exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art.
The Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors discuss Esthetics.
Peggy Guggenheim and Max Ernst arrive in the United States from Lisbon.
Gordon Onslow Ford and Jacqueline Johnson move to Mexico.
Philip Guston moves from Woodstock to Iowa.
The Seligmann's stay in Londonderry, Vermont.
Arshile Gorky solo exhibiton at the San Francisco Museum of Art.
A letter by Samuel Kootz is published in The New York Times about the future of American painting: "we are on our own."
An article appears in The New York Sun with Gorky's comments about his abstract Riviera Club murals.
Art by soldiers in Army Camps at Contemporary Arts.
Arshile Gorky marries Agnes Magruder.
"New Acquisition: Vincent van Gogh, The Starry Night" at The Museum of Modern Art.
Arshile Gorky and Agnes visit Chicago.
Lee Krasner meets Jackson Pollock.
"Directions of American Painting" at the Carnegie Institute.
Arshile Gorky teaches camouflage.
Arshile Gorky and Agnes visit Agnes' parents in Philadelphia.
Surrealist issue of View magazine.
J. Edgar Hoover writes to the NY office about the American Artists Congress.
The Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors search for Patrons."Annual Exhibition of Paintings by Artists under Forty" at the Whitney.
The Atlantic Charter is announced.
Joan Miró and Salvador Dali exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art.
Arshile Gorky views Matta.
Great Britain declares war with Finland, Rumania and Hungary.
The Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
Industrial camouflage exhibition at the Advertising Club.
Robert Motherwell returns to New York from Mexico.
The Artists' Societies for National Defense meet.
The Hays buy a Rothko myth painting.1942: Isolationist Art vs. The New Internationalism
Adolph Gottlieb serves as Vice-President of the Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors.
Robert Motherwell marries Maria Emilia Ferreira y Moyers.
Barnett Newman asks "What about Isolationist Art?"
Barnett Newman applies for conscientious objector status.
Artists' Council for Victory is formed.
Jackson Pollock shows Birth in "American and French Paintings" exhibition at McMillen Inc.
"Americans 1942: 18 Artists from 9 States" exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art.
Macy's art exhibition.
The Federal Art Project becomes part of the War Services Program.
"U.S. Army Illustrators of Fort Custer, Michigan" exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art.
André Breton works for the Voice of America.
Life magazine publishes a drawing by Willem de Kooning in a tobacco advertisement.
"Artists in Exile" exhibition at the Pierre Matisse Gallery in New York.
Matta has his first solo exhibition in the U.S. at the Pierre Matisse Gallery.
André Breton discusses myths in the Max Ernst issue of View magazine.
James Johnson Sweeney visits Jackson Pollock's studio.
Jackson Pollock's mother visits Jackson and Sande in New York.
Wolfgang Paalen launches Dyn.
Franz Kline exhibits at the National of Academy of Design's Annual Exhibition.
Harold Rosenberg writes about myth in the Tanguy/Tchelitchew issue of View magazine.
Alexander Calder exhibition at the Pierre Matisse Gallery.
Second annual exhibition of the Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors at the Wildenstein Galleries.
The Museum of Modern Art acquires Arshile Gorky's Garden in Sochi (1941).
"Art Sale for the Armed Services" at The Museum of Modern Art.
Julien Levy serves in the Army.
"Road to Victory" exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art.
Peggy Guggenheim publishes a catalogue of her collection.
The first issue of VVV magazine is published. Max Ernst drips.
Franz Kline works for the Army.
Robert Motherwell spends the summer in Provincetown, Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
Arshile Gorky visits his in-laws in Washington, D.C.
Jackson Pollock stops seeing Dr. Violet de Laszlo.
Arshile Gorky sketches a waterfall in Connecticut.
Marcel Duchamp arrives in New York.
Peggy Guggenheim stays in in Cape Cod.
Arshile Gorky's wife, Agnes finds out she is pregnant.
"New Rugs by American Artists" exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art.
Arshile Gorky receives his draft papers.
"Camouflage for Civilian Defense" exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art.
Lee Krasner moves in with Jackson Pollock.
Robert Motherwell meets Jackson Pollock.
Matta practices automatism with Abstract Expressionists.
Arshile Gorky applies unsuccessfully for a job at Brookline College, Massachusetts.
Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock study sheet metal.
Marc Chagall exhibition at the Pierre Matisse Gallery.
Mark Rothko's wife's jewelry appears in Vogue magazine.
The "First Papers of Surrealism" auction/exhibition is held at the Whitelaw Reid mansion on Madison Avenue.
Art Exhibition for the Benefit of Armenian War Relief at the Art Students' League.
Peggy Guggenheim opens Art of this Century.
Franz Kline and wife move to 23 Christopher Street (top floor).
Howard Putzel writes to Onslow Ford about Jackson Pollock.
"Twentieth Century Portraits" exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art.
"Artists for Victory" exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Jackson Pollock ends therapy sessions with Dr. de Laszlo.
"Adolph Gottlieb: Paintings" at the Artists Gallery.Being and Nothingness by Jean Paul Sartre is published in France.
Katherine Dreier loans Duchamp's The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (or The Large Glass) to the Museum of Modern Art.
André Breton excommunicates Kurt Seligmann and André Masson.
Jacqueline Lamba and André Breton split up.
Robert Motherwell's father dies.
Philip Guston and wife have a daughter.
Mark Rothko meets Sidney Janis.
Robert Motherwell makes his first collages.
Barnett Newman meets Betty Parsons.
Barnett Newman writes "The Plasmic Image."
Matta and his wife, Anne (Alpert), have dinner with the Gorkys.
Helena Rubinstein goes on a buying spree at the Bignou Gallery.
Lee Krasner is dismissed from the WPA.
"Exhibition by 31 Women" opens at Art of This Century.
"Four American Artists" at the Riverside Museum.
Jackson Pollock is dismissed from the WPA.
Franz Kline and Elizabeth move to 150 West 4th Street.
Jackson Pollock gets a job at Creative Printmakers on 18th Street.
"Americans 1943: Realists and Magic-Realists" exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art.
"New York Artist-Painters" exhibition.
Franz Kline wins a prize at the 117th Annual Exhibition of the National Academy of Design.
Fernand Léger arrives in New York.
Klaus Mann attacks Surrealism in the American Mercury.
Max Ernst leaves Peggy Guggenheim.
Matta contributes to double issue of André Breton's VVV magazine.
"Early and Late" exhibition at Peggy Guggenheim's Art of This Century Gallery.
The Norlyst Gallery opens.
David Burliuk introduces Arshile Gorky to Joseph Hirshhorn.
Max Ernst leaves Peggy Guggenheim.
New Frontiers in American Painting by Samuel Kootz is published.
"Collages" exhibition at Peggy Guggenheim's Art of This Century.
Arshile Gorky's daughter, Maro, is born. Matta,
Drawings exhibition at the Julien Levy Gallery.
Peggy Guggenheim scouts young talent.
Jackson Pollock exhibits Collage at Peggy Guggenheim's Art of This Century.
Max Ernst, Drawings exhibition at the Julien Levy Gallery.
Jackson Pollock works at The Museum of Non-Objective Painting at 24 East 54th Street.
"This Century's Spring Salon of Younger Artists" at Peggy Guggenheim's Art of the Century Gallery.
Arshile Gorky, Agnes and daughter Maro travel to the Magruders' Virginia farm.
Willem de Kooning moves again.
Barnett Newman and wife visit Peabody museums.
Robert Motherwell spends his second summer in Provincetown.
Franz Kline serves as second lieutenant in the reserve corps at the Citizens' Military Training Camp, Fort Monroe.
Franz Kline meets Willem de Kooning at Conrad Marca-Relli's studio at 148 West Fourth Street.
Mark Rothko and his wife Edith separate permanently.
Mark Rothko meets Clyfford Still.
Mark Rothko meets Buffie Johnson.
Franz Kline is included in the inaugural exhibition of the Village Art Center.
Third exhibition by the Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors takes place at the Wildenstein Gallery.
Matta's wife, Anne, gives birth to twins.
Peggy Guggenheim visits Jackson Pollock in his studio.
The Federal Art Project of the WPA is disbanded.
Peggy Guggenheim offers Jackson Pollock a solo show, a contract and a mural commission.
Mark Rothko returns to New York.
Clement Greenberg meets Mark Rothko.
Jackson Pollock's first solo exhibition takes place at Peggy Guggenheim's Art of This Century gallery.
Adolph Gottlieb and Mark Rothko appear on WNYC radio.
"Romantic Painting in America" exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art.
"What about Modern Art and Democracy" by Stuart Davis is published in Harper's magazine.
The government auctions off WPA paintings.
Willem de Kooning marries Elaine Fried.André Breton meets Elisa Claro (née Binhoff).
The Museum of Modern Art purchases Robert Motherwell's Pancho Villa, Dead and Alive.
Adolph Gottlieb serves as President of the Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors.
Jackson Pollock paints a mural for Peggy Guggenheim who later spreads a rumour that he urinated in her fireplace on the day of its installation.
Peggy Guggenheim introduces Mark Rothko to Betty Parsons.
Barnett Newman draws.
Barnett Newman meets Betty Parsons.
Clement Greenberg becomes the art critic for The Nation.
Barnett Newman gets published.
Piet Mondrian dies in New York.
Arshile Gorky meets André Breton.
Last issue of André Breton's VVV magazine.
Last issue of Dyn magazine.
Jackson Pollock appears in Arts & Architecture magazine.
Robert Motherwell's review of Jackson Pollock's show at Art of This Century appears in Partisan Review.
Edith Sachar divorces Mark Rothko.
"Adolph Gottlieb Drawings" at the Wakefield Gallery, New York.
"Abstract and Surrealist Art in the United States" at the Cincinnati Art Museum.
Adolph Gottlieb exhibits at the Wakefield Gallery.
"First Exhibition: Hans Hofmann," at the Art of This Century Gallery.
Matta leaves Julien Levy for Pierre Matisse.
"Five American Painters" appears in Harper's Bazaar.
Peggy Guggenheim notifies Jackson Pollock that The Museum of Modern Art purchased The She-Wolf.
Arshile Gorky returns to Virginia.
Barnett Newman organizes an exhibition at the Wakefield Gallery.
National Academy's 118th Annual Exhibition.
Eighth Annual Exhibition of the American Abstract Artists at the Mortimer Brandt Gallery at 15 E. 57th St.
"First Exhibition in America of Twenty Paintings" at Peggy Guggenheim's Art of the Century Gallery.
Peggy Guggenheim renews Jackson Pollock's contract for another year.
Thomas Hart Benton visits Jackson Pollock for the last time.
"Art in Progress: 15th Anniversary Exhibition" exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art.
Howard Putzel announces his departure from Art of This Century.
Jackson Pollock stops seeing Dr. Violet de Laszlo.
Barnett Newman and wife spend the summer in East Gloucester, Massachusetts.
Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner rent a studio in Provincetown for the summer.
Article by Barnett Newman on Pre-Columbian art appears in La Revista Belga.
Clement Greenberg criticizes Surrealists.
Paris is liberated.
Jackson Pollock makes prints at Atelier 17.
André Breton stays in Canada.
Lee Krasner persuades Jackson Pollock to visit her homeopathic doctor Elizabeth Wright Hubbard.
First solo exhibition of work by Robert Motherwell at Peggy Guggenheim's Art of This Century gallery.
The first book edited by Robert Motherwell of The Documents of Modern Art series is published.
The unemployment rate continues to decrease.
Picasso joins the French Communist Party (PCF).
Kay Sage solo exhibition at the Julien Levy gallery.
William Baziotes' first solo exhibition opens at Peggy Guggenheim's gallery, Art of This Century.
Arshile Gorky returns to New York from Virginia.
Abstract and Surrealist Art in America by Sidney Janis is published by Reynal and Hitchcock.
Julien Levy becomes Arshile Gorky's dealer.
Arcane 17 is published.
"40 American Moderns" at Howard Putzel's 67 Gallery.
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