Picasso developed this painting from the central motif of an unrealized mural of four mounted riders and a walking figure leading a horse. Determinedly striding forward, the youth seen here exudes ...

Joseph Roulin, a postal employee, was a friend of Van Gogh ’s when the artist lived in Arles, a town in the South of France, in 1888–89. Van Gogh depicted Roulin in the uniform he always wore proudly, ...

Japanese, born 1929A vital part of New York’s avant-garde art scene from the late 1950s to the early 1970s, Yayoi Kusama developed a distinctive style utilizing approaches associated with Abstract ...

A key figure in the Pop art movement and beyond, Roy Lichtenstein grounded his profoundly inventive career in imitation—beginning by borrowing images from comic books and advertisements in the early ...

Yoko Ono: When I do the Cut Piece, I get into a trance, and so I don't feel too frightened. There's several layers of meanings. So of course I was saying, hey, you're doing this to women, you know? We ...

If Jackson Pollock was the public face of the New York avant-garde, Willem de Kooning could be described as an artist’s artist, who was perceived by many of his peers as its leader. He was born in ...

MoMA Highlights: 375 Works from The Museum of Modern Art Introduction by Glenn D. Lowry, 2019 Flexibound, 408 pages MoMA Now: Highlights from The Museum of Modern Art—Ninetieth Anniversary Edition ...

If you would like to reproduce an image of a work of art in MoMA’s collection, or an image of a MoMA publication or archival material (including installation views, checklists, and press releases), ...

Born in New York City's Harlem neighborhood in 1919, Roy DeCarava came of age during the Harlem Renaissance, when artistic activity and achievement among African Americans flourished across the ...

Elizabeth Catlett quoted in Samella S. Lewis, “Elizabeth Catlett” in Jeanne Zeidler, ed., Elizabeth Catlett: Works on Paper, 1944–1992, Hampton, Virginia: Hampton University Museum, 1993: 9. Elizabeth ...

Donald Judd is a landmark figure in the history of postwar art. In the 1950s, he studied philosophy and art history and took classes at the Art Students League in New York. He was first publicly ...

American, 1938–2024Richard Serra Sculpture: Forty Years Kynaston McShine and Lynne Cooke. Interview with Richard Serra by Kynaston McShine. Essays by Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Lynne Cooke, and John ...