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Willem de Kooning's Woman series (1948–1953)

1950 - 1954

The Ninth Street Art Exhibition and New York School consolidation (1951–1954)

1949 - 1958

Robert Motherwell's Elegy to the Spanish Republic series (1948–1977)

1948 - 1977

Museum of Modern Art exhibitions and acquisitions promoting Abstract Expressionism (1940–1960)

1950 - 1959

Mark Rothko's late color-field work and Seagram Murals (1957–1960)

1957 - 2011

Lee Krasner's post-Pollock work and late abstract paintings (1951–1984)

1951 - 1985

Jackson Pollock's drip period (1947–1952)

1947 - 1953

Helen Frankenthaler's stain paintings and the origins of Color Field (1950–1964)

1951 - 1964

Franz Kline's black-and-white paintings (1950–1956)

1949 - 1958

Clyfford Still's formative and breakthrough abstracts (1944–1955)

1944 - 1955

Betty Parsons Gallery exhibitions and the New York Abstract Expressionist scene (1946–1962)

1946 - 1962

Barnett Newman's zip paintings and major public commissions (1948–1968)

1948 - 1968

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