Sidney Janis Gallery Exhibition Catalogue 8 American Painters 1959

8 American Painters
Sidney Janis Gallery, 1959
Exhibition Catalogue

Features Josef Albers, Willem de Kooning, Arshile Gorky, Phillip Guston, Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko

First edition
Out-of-print
8.5 x 11 inch
12 pages with 10 black-and-white illustrations.
Staple-bound booklet with thick printed and die cut wrappers.

Condition Minor wear includes rubbing and slight creasing.

Published in conjunction with 8 American Painters Exhibition at Sidney Janis Gallery, New York City, January 5, 1959 – January 31, 1959. Artists include Josef Albers, Willem de Kooning, Arshile Gorky, Philip Guston, Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko. The Sidney Janis Gallery was established in1948 and over the ensuing decades became a beacon for some of New York City's most avant-garde artists. Art collector, dealer and businessman Sidney Janis, along with his wife Harriet, swiftly established the gallery's reputation by curating exhibitions of Fernand Léger, Piet Mondrian, Jean Arp, Tom Wesselmann, Willem deKooning, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Josef Albers.

In 1952, Sidney Janis gave Jackson Pollock the first of three solo shows, further establishing the cultural dominance of Abstract Expressionism. Ten years later, the gallery put on its most famous exhibition, The New Realists. Throughout the gallery's existence, it ably and consistently measured the pulse of the New York Art world by showcasing some of the finest and riskiest avant-garde art of the 20th century.