Artworks

Judit Reigl

Oil, alkyd, and acrylic on canvas · 1958

Sam Francis

Oil paint and acrylic paint on canvas · 1957

Anni Albers

Cotton, rayon, and acrylic, bands of four-color complementary warp plain weave, weft-faced plain weave, weft-faced plain weave of discontinuous wefts, plain weave of discontinuous wefts, and gauze weave; main warp fringe · 1957

Grace Hartigan

Collage composed of brush and black ink and cut and pasted papers, with acrylic, oil, oil transfer, gouache, and charcoal, on cream wove paper · 1956

Lygia Pape

Acrylic on wood · 1956

Robert D. Sailors

Cotton, wool, acrylic, silk, linen, polyester, rayon, and nylon, plain weave · 1955

Angelo Testa

Rayon, linen, and acrylic, plain weave · 1955

Yki Nummi

Acrylic · 1955

Mercedes Franchini

Acrylic with metal hardware · 1955

Alberto Burri

Acrylic paint and hessian on canvas · 1954

Ben Rose

Modacrylic and rayon, plain weave; screen printed · 1954

Ben Rose

Modacrylic and rayon; screen printed · 1954

Saburo Murakami

Acrylic on paper · 1954

Hedda Sterne

Acrylic on canvas · 1954

Dorothy Liebes

Acrylic, gauze weave with paired wefts · 1953

Wucius Wong

Acrylic paint and Chinese ink on wove paper · 1953

Carmen Herrera

Acrylic on canvas · 1952

Mary Evans Landis

Silk, wool, acrylic, wild silk, and probably polyethylene film, point twill weave; warp fringe · 1951

Helen Frankenthaler

Watercolor and acrylic on paper (recto); Watercolor on paper (verso) · 1951

Amish

Wool, rayon, and acetate, plain and twill weaves; pieced; backed with cotton, plain weave; nylon and acrylic knit batting; quilted with cotton thread · 1950

Marianne Strengell

Linen, nylon, cotton, wool, modacrylic metallic strip encased in polyester film, weft-faced plain weave with supplementary wrapping wefts forming cut and uncut pile through a technique known as "Ghiordes knots;" knotted warp fringe · 1950

Robert Natkin

Acrylic paint on frosted mylar · 1950

Ruth Reeves

Cotton, acrylic, and jute, plain weave with supplementary backing wefts and supplementary pile wefts forming cut solid pile; edges bound with cotton, 2:2 twill weave tape; machine woven · 1950

Dorothy Liebes

Wool and acrylic, twill weave · 1948