Chronology of Postwar American Art
1942-46 Peggy Guggenheim opens the Art of This Century gallery near New York’s Museum of Modern Art and begins showing Jackson Pollock — soon to be followed by Mark Rothko and Clyfford Still. With the emergence of these artists, and others Guggenheim exhibits (Robert Motherwell, Ad Reinhardt), New York effectively replaces Paris as the center of the art business. [-1–> [–> … Read more