8 AMERICAN PAINTERS
ALBERS | DE KOONING | GORKY | GUSTON | KLINE | MOTHERWELL | POLLOCK | ROTHKO
Sidney Janis Gallery
[Sidney Janis Gallery]: 8 AMERICAN PAINTERS [ALBERS | DE KOONING | GORKY | GUSTON | KLINE | MOTHERWELL | POLLOCK | ROTHKO]. New York City: Sidney Janis Gallery, 1959. First edition. A good or better staple-bound booklet with thick printed and die cut wrappers, which has been dog-eared. Minor shelf wear includes rubbing and slight creasing. Interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print.
8.5 x 11 unpaginated staple-bound booklet with 84 pages with 10 black-and-white illustrations. Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name: Sidney Janis Gallery, New York City [Jan 5 – 31, 1959].
Artists include Josef Albers, Willem de Kooning, Arshile Gorky, Philip Guston, Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko.
From the website for the nonprofit The Art Story Foundation [entry by Justin Wolf]: The Sidney Janis Gallery first opened its doors in 1948 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 Léger, Mondrian, the de Stijl artists, the Futurists and the Fauves. Beginning in 1952, 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 in showcasing some of the finest and riskiest avant-garde art of the 20th century.