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(Page Four: 1955 - 1964)
Page One: 1800-1934 | Two: 1935-1944 | Three: 1945-1954 | Five: 1965-1980+
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Yves Tanguy dies.
Robert Motherwell's second daughter, Lise, is born.
Franz Kline lives in the East Village before moving to East 10th Street.
Philip Guston joins the Sidney Janis Gallery.
John Ferren becomes responsible for arranging the panels at The Club.
Barnett Newman moves to Brooklyn Heights.
Ben Heller buys Yellow, Green (1953) by Mark Rothko.
Jackson Pollock breaks his ankle again.
"Fifty Years of American Art" in Paris.
Mark Rothko's first show at the Sidney Janis Gallery.
"The New Decade: 35 American Painters and Sculptors" exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
"American-Type Painting" by Clement Greenberg appears in Partisan Review.
Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner begin therapy.
Jackson Pollock gets a passport.
Mark Rothko teaches at the summer session of University of Colorado in Boulder.
Lee Krasner exhibition at the Stable Gallery.
Willem de Kooning denies he is an Abstract Expressionist.
Jackson Pollock's third solo exhibition at the Sidney Janis Gallery.
Fortune Magazine publishes "The Great International Art Market."
Barnett Newman exhibits again.Barnett Newman doesn't paint.
Mark Rothko moves his studio.
Mark Rothko sells.
"Modern Art in the U.S." exhibition at the Tate Gallery in London.
Joan Ward gives birth to Willem de Kooning's daughter, Johanna Lisbeth de Kooning.
Alfred Jensen visits Mark Rothko in his studio.
Barnett Newman and Ad Reinhardt battle it out in court.
Time magazine refers to Jackson Pollock as "Jack the Dripper."
Jackson Pollock meets Ruth Kligman at the Cedar Street Tavern.
Franz Kline solo exhibition at the Sidney Janis Gallery.
Willem de Kooning's second one-man show opens at the Sidney Janis Gallery on Easter Monday.
Donald Blinken buys Mark Rothko's Three Reds (1955).
Jackson Pollock is chosen by The Museum of Modern Art to open a series of exhibitions on artists in mid-career.
"Twelve Americans" exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art.
Jackson Pollock rejects label of "Abstract Expressionism."
Ruth Kligman and Jackson Pollock break up.
Jackson Pollock at the Cedar.
Ruth Kligman moves to Sag Harbor.
Mark Rothko is bedridden for two months.
Franz Kline stays in Provincetown with Al Leslie.
Franz Kline's work is shown at the 28th Venice Biennale.
Ruth Kligman sleeps with Jackson Pollock in the barn with Lee Krasner in the house.
Jackson Pollock asks Ruth Kligman to move in after Lee Krasner decides to leave for Europe.
Lee Krasner goes to Europe.
Jackson Pollock and Ruth Kligman attend Clement Greenberg's dinner party.
Jackson Pollock tells Ruth Kligman that Lee Krasner is coming back.
Ruth Kligman tells Jackson Pollock she is going to New York for a few days.
Ruth Kligman arrives in New York.
Ruth Kligman has lunch with Edith Metzger.
Ruth Kligman has a date with a Jewish comedian.
Ruth Kligman returns to the Springs.
Jackson Pollock dies in a car accident.
Willem de Kooning learns of Jackson Pollock's death.
Jackson Pollock's funeral is held.
Donald Blinken buys Mark Rothko's Blue over Orange.
"An Evening for Jackson Pollock at The Club" takes place.
"Jackson Pollock" exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art.Sidney Janis becomes Robert Motherwell's exclusive dealer.
Robert Motherwell separates from Betty Little.
Franz Kline lives at 473 6th Avenue.
Franz Kline and Philip Guston go on a drunken spree while serving as jurors for the "Exhibition Momentum '57" in Chicago.
Tanager Gallery artists plan a series of exhibitions and a book (unsuccessfully).
Ben Heller buys Barnett Newman.
Leo Castelli opens an art gallery.
Mark Rothko declines an invitation to take part in the Whitney Annual (again).
Mark Rothko sells 17 paintings for $19,133.00.
Adolph Gottlieb teaches at the Pratt Institute and UCLA.
"Paintings by Mark Rothko, Bradley Tomlin and Kenjo Okada" at the Phillips Collection museum.
"Adolph Gottlieb" at the Martha Jackson Gallery.
Mark Rothko works as Visiting Artist at Tulane University in New Orleans.
Picasso 75th Anniversary exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art.
Picasso 75th Anniversary exhibition on the third floor of The Museum of Modern Art.
"American Painting 1945 - 1957" at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
Franz Kline moves from 473 6th Avenue to 242 West 14th Street.
Franz Kline paints in John Little's barn in East Hampton.
Willem de Kooning begins an affair with Ruth Kligman.
Abstract Expressionists are represented at the IV Bienal de São Paulo.
Elaine de Kooning teaches at the University of New Mexico.
John and Dominique de Menil buy Mark Rothko's painting, Number 10, 1957.
Discussion panel "The Accidental in Art" takes place at The Club.
"Two Americans in Action: Franz Kline and Mark Rothko" by Elaine de Kooning is published in the Art News Annual.
Barnett Newman and wife spend Thanksgiving with Lee Krasner on Long Island.
Barnett Newman has a heart attack.
The Whitney Annual.
"An Exhibition of Oil Paintings by Adolph Gottlieb" at The Jewish Museum.
Art News publishes Mark Rothko's response to Elaine de Kooning's article.
Willem de Kooning has a brief affair with Shirley Stoler."Has the Situation Changed?" panel discussion takes place at The Club.
Robert Motherwell, Philip Guston, Ad Reinhardt, Harold Rosenberg and Jack Tworkov participate in "The Concept of the New" panel at the Philadelphia Museum School of Art.
Franz Kline makes "sfumato" paintings: Siegfried and Requiem.
Barnett Newman recovers from heart attack.
"Adolph Gottlieb: New York" at the Andre Emmerich Gallery.
Mark Rothko's second (and last) show at Sidney Janis.
Jasper Johns' first solo show at the Leo Castelli Gallery.
Barnett Newman has canvases stretched for First Station (1958) and Second Station (1958) of his Stations of the Cross series.
Willem de Kooning takes Ruth Kligman to Cuba.
Lee Krasner exhibits at the Martha Jackson Gallery.
Allan Kaprow exhibition at the Hansa Gallery.
Franz Kline solo exhibition at Galleria del Naviglio in Milan.
Franz Kline's second solo exhibition at the Sidney Janis Gallery.
"The New American Painting" opens at the Kunsthalle Basel.
Barnett Newman retrospective at Bennington College in Vermont. Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, Philip Guston, Franz Kline and Robert Motherwell sign an agreement authorizing Bernard Reis to represent them in their dealings with Sidney Janis.
During 1958 Mark Rothko sold 13 paintings earning him $20,666 after 1/3 gallery commission was deducted.
Life magazine covers Expressionism.
Willem de Kooning hires Bernard Reis as his accountant.
First magazine article devoted to Barnett Newman appears in Art News.
Sidney Janis confirms Mark Rothko's commission for the Seagram murals.
Mark Rothko is featured at the United States Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.
Franz Kline orders a black Thunderbird.
Rothko spends the summer in his newly purchased house in Provincetown.
Robert Motherwell marries Helen Frankenthaler.
Mark Rothko rents a studio space to begin working on the Seagram murals.
Mark Rothko refuses a prize from the Guggenheim Museum.
Barnett Newman moves for the last time.
Mark Rothko offers up a recipe for art.
"Jackson Pollock" exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery, London.
The 1958 Pittsburgh Bicentennial International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture takes place at the Carnegie Institute.Hedy Lamarr writes to Franz Kline.
Mark Rothko earns $61,130.
Willem de Kooning moves his studio to 831 Broadway.
The Museum of Modern Art becomes the first American museum to own a work by Barnett Newman.
Thomas B. Hess publishes a monograph on Willem de Kooning.
"Adolph Gottlieb: New Paintings" at the André Emmerich Gallery.
Franz Kline buys a house.
"Barnett Newman: A Selection 1946 - 1952" opens at French and Co.
"Gottlieb: Ecole de New York" at the Galerie Rive Droite, Paris.
"Adolph Gottlieb" exhibition at the Paul Kantor Gallery.
Exhibition of de Kooning's new large abstractions at Sidney Janis opens.
Mark Rothko changes his legal name from Marcus Rothkowitz to Mark Rothko.
"The New American Painting as shown in 8 European Countries 1958-1959" exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art.
Mark Rothko and his wife, Mell, write their wills.
"Is There a New Academy?" is published in Art News.
Mark Rothko sails to Europe with his wife Mell and daughter Kate.
Willem de Kooning and Ruth Kligman rent a house in Southampton.
Aaron Siskind visits Franz Kline in Provincetown.
"Adolph Gottlieb: Paintings 1949 - 1959" at the Institute of Contemporary Art, London.
Willem de Kooning buys 4.2 acres of land in the Springs.
The Four Seasons restaurant opens in the Seagram building.
Willem de Kooning stays in Rome with Ruth Kligman.
Barnett Newman travels to Canada to head summer art workshop.
Mark Rothko and family leave London to return to the United States.
Joan Ward moves to San Francisco, taking her and Willem de Kooning's daughter with her.
Wolfgang Paalen commits suicide in Mexico.
Allan Kaprow's 18 Happenings in Six Parts takes place at the Reuben Gallery in New York.
Abstract Expressionists appear in Life magazine.
"Sixteen Americans" at The Museum of Modern Art.
Willem De Kooning and Ruth Kligman argue in Italy.
Mark Rothko backs out of the Seagram deal.Sketchbook No. 1: Three Americans is released.
Clement Greenberg offers Lee Krasner a show.
Franz Kline is included in Who's Who in Art (London).
Barnett Newman finishes his third and forth paintings of the Stations of the Cross series.
Rothko sells.
Mark Rothko buys a house.
Willem de Kooning returns from Italy and hires an assistant.
The times, they were a-changin'.
Grove Press publishes De Kooning by Harriet Janis and Rudi Blesh.
"Adolph Gottlieb: New Paintings" at French & Co. in New York.
"Ray Gun" exhibition at the Judson Gallery.
Franz Kline's third solo exhibition at the Sidney Janis Gallery.
Queen of Hearts is performed in front of a backdrop painted by Franz Kline.
Small solo Rothko exhibition at The Phillips Collection.
Frank Stella's first one-man exhibition at Leo Castelli.
Willem de Kooning and Ruth Kligman spend the summer in Southampton.
Franz Kline departs for Europe with Elisabeth Ross Zogbaum.
Franz Kline punches French artist Jean Fautrier at the 30th Annual Venice Biennale.
Franz Kline visits Peggy Guggenheim's collection in Venice.
Franz Kline in Italy. Franz Kline and Elisabeth fly from Rome to New York.
Willem de Kooning goes on a bender in San Francisco.
"An Exhibition of British Abstract Painting" at the RBA (Royal Society of British Artists) Galleries, London.
Barnett Newman rents a space in Carnegie Hall.
The Phillips Collection annex, including their Rothko room, opens in Washington.
Willem de Kooning gets in a fight at the Cedar and is sued for $100,000.1961: Why Willem de Kooning punched Clement Greenberg
John Graham dies in London England.
Robert Motherwell begins to make prints.
Robert Motherwell retrospective at the VI Bienal de Arte, Sao Paolo, Brazil.
Rothko sells eight paintings.
Peggy Guggenheim sues Jackson Pollock's estate.
Adolph Gottlieb is awarded third prize at the Pittsburgh International Exhibition, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh.
Ben Heller buys Barnett Newman.
Mark Rothko exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art.
Barnett Newman's brother dies.
Franz Kline exhibition at The Collector's Gallery in New York.
Mark Rothko visits Dr. Grokest.
Artists denounce The New York Times art critic John Canaday.
Barnett Newman battles Erwin Panofsky in Art News.
Franz Kline is admitted into hospital.
Willem de Kooning buys more land in the Springs.
Franz Kline hangs a show.
"Gottlieb" exhibition at the Galeria del Ariete in Milan, Italy.
Franz Kline attends 30th reunion of Lehighton High School.
Barnett Newman offers $500 to the Carnegie Museum of Art.
Mark Rothko visits England.
"American Abstract Expressionists and Imagists" at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
Willem de Kooning punches Clement Greenberg.
Claes Oldenburg opens The Store.
Mark Rothko donates Number 19, 1958 to The Museum of Modern Art.
Willem de Kooning has an affair with Marina Ospina.Kurt Seligmann dies after accidentally shooting himself in the head.
Franz Kline has a heart attack.
Mark Rothko moves his studio from downtown to uptown.
Mark Rothko agrees to do the Harvard murals.
Mark Rothko's prices continue to rise.
Barnett Newman casts Here I (To Marcia).
Clement Greenberg criticizes Harold Rosenberg.
"Geometric Abstraction in America" at the Whitney Museum. Katherine Dreier dies.
Willem de Kooning becomes a U.S. citizen.
Willem de Kooning exhibition at the Sidney Janis Gallery.
Willem de Kooning meets Mera McAlister.
Mark Rothko complains about depression to Dr. Grokest.
The Club closes.
Mark Rothko sells paintings to pay for his brother's medical costs.
Ed Mobley oversees renovation of Willem de Kooning's Accabonac house.
Franz Kline enters New York Hospital.
Franz Kline dies.
Franz Kline's funeral is held.
Franz Kline is buried in Wilkes-Barre.
Mark Rothko visits Dr. Grokest again.
Philip Guston retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum opens.
A memorial is held for Franz Kline at Grace Church, New York.
"Formalists" at the Gallery of Modern Art, Washington, DC.
"Something New is Cooking" is published in Life magazine.
Mark Rothko visits Dr. Grokest for the third time in three months.
Andy Warhol exhibits his soup cans for the first time in a public gallery.
Allan Stone sells de Kooning.
Mark Rothko trades Untitled (1960) for Slow Swirl at the Edge of the Sea.
"Newman-De Kooning, an exhibition of 'two founding fathers'" opens at the Allan Stone Gallery.
The President of Harvard University visits Mark Rothko in his studio to view the Harvard murals.
"The New Realists" group show at the Sidney Janis Gallery.
Two Rothko paintings are featured in House and Garden magazine.
Elaine de Kooning paints President Kennedy.
Arshile Gorky retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art.
Mark Rothko's Harvard murals arrive in Cambridge.1963: Toward a New Abstraction
Kay Sage commits suicide.
Robert Motherwell signs with Marlborough - Gerson.
Robert Motherwell visits London and Paris.
The Cedar Street Tavern closes.
Adolph Gottlieb is awarded prize of Grand Premio at the VII Bienal de Sao Paolo, Brazil.
William Baziotes dies of lung cancer.
Ruth Kligman introduces Mark Rothko to Andy Warhol (sort of).
Mark Rothko goes to Harvard for the hanging of his murals.
Harold Rosenberg praises Barnett Newman in Vogue magazine.
"Pop Art - Cult of the Commonplace" is published in Time magazine.
The renovated Jewish Museum opens with a Robert Rauschenberg retrospective.
Willem de Kooning moves back in with Joan Ward and their daughter LIsa in the Springs.
Mark Rothko's Harvard murals are exhibited at the Guggenheim Museum.
"Toward a New Abstraction" at the Jewish Museum.
Robert Motherwell spends the summer in Provincetown.
Mark Rothko signs with the Marlborough Galleries.
Willem de Kooning begins an affair with Susan Brockman.
Christopher Rothko is born to Mark and Mell Rothko.
Barnett Newman visits Universal Limited Art Editions (ULAE) studio.
Life magazine proclaims Pop Art a best-seller in the art market.
Barnett Newman's Model of a Synagogue is exhibited at the Jewish Museum.
Marlborough Fine Art Ltd. opens its New York branch - the Marlborough-Gerson Gallery.
Willem De Kooning retrieves his possessions. Christmas at the Rothkos.Robert Motherwell is awarded the 4th Guggenheim International Award.
Barnett Newman paints Seventh Station, Eighth Station, Ninth Station and completes Be II.
Mark Rothko sells.
Willem De Kooning plans a retrospective.
Joan Ward and Lisa moved back to New York.
Jasper Johns retrospective at the Jewish Museum.
Willem de Kooning receives doors.
Franz Kline's mother dies.
"Post-Painterly Abstraction" at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Joseph Hirshhorn and Harold Diamond clean de Kooning out.
Barnett Newman completes color lithographs.
Barnett Newman visits Europe for the first time.
"Four Germinal Painters" at the U.S. Pavilion of the 32nd Venice Biennale.
Mark Rothko moves his studio to East Sixty-ninth Street.
Mark Rothko is commissioned to do the Rothko Chapel.
Barnett Newman's wife retires.
Willem de Kooning gets a medal from the White House.
Joseph Hirshhorn buys more de Koonings.
Allan Kaprow asks "Should the Artist Be a Man of the World?"
Philip Johnson argues with Mark Rothko over the Rothko Chapel.
Barnett Newman travels to Seattle for a symposium of contemporary art.
Harold Rosenberg profiles Willem de Kooning in Vogue magazine.
Donald Judd writes about Barnett Newman.
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