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Jack Youngerman

Jack Youngerman

1926

WA-00012638

PaintingHard-Edge PaintingFiguration

Representation

None documented

6

Institutional Exhibitions

29

Works in Collection

55

Assets Indexed

2

Authority-backed Facts

0

Publications Referenced

90%

Profile Completeness

Cultural Positioning

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Authority Records (2)

WikidataQ6115904

Selected Institutional Exhibitions

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Posters by Painters

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1977

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76 Jefferson

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1975

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American Prints from the International Program

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1971

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Recent Acquisitions: Painting and Sculpture

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1965

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Recent Acquisitions

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1961–1962

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16 Americans

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1959–1960

Field Verification (2 fields)

1 cross-verified · 1 single-source

Birth yearArtsy· 85%✓
NationalityArtsy· 85%

Source Registry (2)

MoMA bulk 2026-05-04https://www.moma.org/artists/6524
Tier 1 · Institutional92%
Artist Index
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred35%

About

Why this artist matters now

Jack Youngerman is an American painter whose biomorphic abstractions synthesize organic form and geometric precision through interlocking curved shapes in oil and acrylic. Working from the 1950s onward, he developed a distinctive vocabulary of color relationships and flowing contours that evoke botanical growth and movement without descending into figuration. His compositions hover between abstraction and suggestive form, creating a visual language rooted in the language of natural systems rather than direct representation.

Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 29d ago

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Taste overlap and adjacency

Movement

Hard-Edge Painting

Medium

Painting

Related Artists

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Institutional

Museum Collections

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Museum of Modern ArtNew York Cleveland Museum of Art Art Institute of Chicago

Canonical record

Artworks (29)

The 50th Year, The New School

The 50th Year, The New School

1969 · Lithograph

34 15/16 x 25" (88.8 x 63.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled

1968 · Acrylic and ink on paper

7 5/8 × 6 3/4" (19.4 × 17.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Youngerman - Watercolors - Betty Parsons, New York

1968 · Silkscreen

34 x 24" (86.3 x 61.0 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Blue – White – Red

1966 · Lithograph

composition and sheet: 32 × 24 1/8" (81.3 × 61.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Yellow – White

1966 · Lithograph

composition (irreg.): 30 1/2 × 22 11/16" (77.5 × 57.6 cm); sheet: 33 13/16 × 24 15/16" (85.9 × 63.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

White – Yellow

1966 · Lithograph

composition and sheet: 31 3/4 × 22 11/16" (80.7 × 57.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Vertical Symmetry: White

Vertical Symmetry: White

1966 · Inkless intaglio

plate: 32 7/16 × 24 3/8" (82.4 × 61.9 cm); sheet: 41 3/16 × 28 7/8" (104.6 × 73.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

1966 · Lithograph

composition and sheet: 32 1/2 × 24 1/4" (82.5 × 61.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

White – Black

1966 · Lithograph

composition and sheet: 31 5/8 × 23 3/4" (80.4 × 60.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

1966 · Lithograph

composition and sheet: 31 15/16 × 24 3/16" (81.2 × 61.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

August: Black – White

August: Black – White

1966 · Etching and aquatint

plate: 25 7/8 × 30 11/16" (65.7 × 78 cm); sheet: 29 1/8 × 41 3/16" (74 × 104.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Elegy – White

Elegy – White

1966 · Inkless intaglio

plate: 32 3/8 × 24 1/16" (82.2 × 61.1 cm); sheet: 41 3/16 × 28 7/8" (104.6 × 73.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

October: Black – White

October: Black – White

1966 · Etching and aquatint

plate: 22 9/16 × 30 1/2" (57.3 × 77.5 cm); sheet: 28 7/8 × 41 1/8" (73.4 × 104.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Red – White

1966 · Lithograph

composition (irreg.): 27 3/16 × 21 1/2" (69 × 54.6 cm); sheet: 31 7/16 × 23 11/16" (79.9 × 60.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Blue – Yellow – White

Blue – Yellow – White

1966 · Lithograph

composition (irreg.): 29 1/2 × 20 13/16" (74.9 × 52.8 cm); sheet: 33 7/8 × 23 9/16" (86 × 59.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

November: Black – White

November: Black – White

1966 · Etching and aquatint

plate: 22 11/16 × 30 5/8" (57.6 × 77.8 cm); sheet: 29 3/16 × 41 1/4" (74.2 × 104.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

February – White

February – White

1966 · Inkless intaglio

plate: 24 3/16 × 32 3/8" (61.4 × 82.2 cm); sheet: 29 7/16 × 41 1/8" (74.8 × 104.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Horizontal Symmetry: Black – White

Horizontal Symmetry: Black – White

1966 · Etching and aquatint

plate: 22 9/16 × 30 5/8" (57.3 × 77.8 cm); sheet: 29 × 41 3/16" (73.7 × 104.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

April: Black – White

April: Black – White

1966 · Etching and aquatint

plate: 30 9/16 × 22 5/8" (77.6 × 57.5 cm); sheet: 41 3/16 × 29" (104.6 × 73.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

The Paris Review

The Paris Review

1966 · Silkscreen

45 × 32" (114.3 × 81.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Bleu-Blanc-Rouge

1966 · color lithograph

Paper: 81.3 x 61.4 cm (32 x 24 3/16 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Delfina II

1964 · Acrylic on canvas

279 × 264.8 cm (109 7/8 × 104 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1963 · Brush and black ink and graphite on off-white wove paper

70.3 × 57.5 cm (27 11/16 × 22 11/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Black, Red, and White

Black, Red, and White

1962 · Oil on canvas

6' 3 5/8" x 6' 11" (191.9 x 210.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Artwork sources (3)

29 published of 53 catalogued · 40 with image

MoMA
24 publishedof 48 catalogued36 img
Art Institute Chicago
4 published4 img
Cleveland Museum of Art
1 published

Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 1)

1 entries · 1 sources

Bleu-Blanc-Rouge
1966 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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Record

Images

Artsy artist portrait

Artsy

Delfina II (Art Institute of Chicago)

Art Institute of Chicago

Relationships

7

Movements2

Hard-Edge Painting Figuration

Collections5

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Museum of Modern Art Cleveland Museum of Art Art Institute of Chicago Wright

Institutional

Representation & Collections

In collection

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

In collection

Museum of Modern Art

New York, US

In collection

Cleveland Museum of Art

In collection

Art Institute of Chicago

Market

Auction sale history

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