Jackson Pollock - Untitled (1953-1954)

Hans Hofmann - Flowering Desert (1953)

"The key to Hofmann’s paintings is his passion for nature, whether perceived on location, from memory, or imagination. He incessantly probed natural elements, focusing on volume, and geometric forms in positive and negative spaces. It was ...the object, he said, that creates the negative or positive space, not, as traditionally conceived, that an object is placed in a space. If an object creates space, then it is light that creates form. Similarly, light makes color in nature, but color creates light in painting."

Read more at the artist's website:

http://www.hanshofmann.net/

Jackson Pollock - White Light (1954)

Amaranth Ehrenhalt - Parcours (1959-60)

"Some are born with a silver spoon in their mouth; I arrived with a paint brush in my hand and have painted steadily since the age of four. My work is abstract expressionist.'Unexpected' and 'radiating energy' are often used to describe my art."

Read more at the artist's website:

http://www.amaranthehrenhalt.com/

Misha Reznikoff - Untitled (1958)

Misha Reznikoff was born in Ukraine in 1905. During the Russian Revolution in 1918 he served as the youngest communication officer. In 1921 immigrated with his family to the United States and settled in Rhode Island.

Read more here:

http://www.anitashapolskygallery.com/reznikoff.html

Ernest Briggs - Untitled (1958)

"From dense layers of calligraphic brushstrokes to broad, sweeping passages of luminous color, Ernest Briggs's paintings from the 1950s bristle with the artist's sense of elation at leaving traditional image-making behind. Briggs was an active participant in the later wave of Abstract Expressionism, the revolution in abstract painting that secured New York City's position as the art capitol of the world in the post-World War II period."

Read more here:

http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/mishkin/briggs/briggs.html

Jackson Pollock - Alchemy (1947)