New York School Abstract Expressionists: Artists Choice by Artists: A Complete Documentation of the New York Painting and Sculpture Annuals; 1951-1957

This book provides a complete documentation of the New York Painting and Sculpture Annuals held initially as the 9th St. Exhibition and continued at the Sta­ble Gal­lery in New York City from 1951 until 1957.

After half a century the book plans to fulfill the desire of the Annual Organizing Committee of the New York School artists: to show the most engaged creative work on the New York scene in a book, with wide distribution and with equal importance. The contributing writers are the artists themselves by means of the reproduction of their statements.

The annuals in 1951 and 1953 showed the work of the pioneers of the New York School abstract expressionists. Artists who participated in the Ninth Street Exhibition in 1951 and in the Second Annual in 1953 are each presented with four pages, in alphabetical order in the following manner: artist s statement, two works in full page reproduction from the period (1951-1957) and the artist s biography.