Abstract Expressionist Painters

Painters of Abstract Expressionism, the American movement centered on New York from the 1940s through the 1950s that shifted advanced painting away from representational subject matter entirely, spanning both the gestural, action-based painters and the color field painters who pursued a quieter, large-scale approach to pure abstraction. This group gathers the movement's core figures and painters directly associated with its exhibiting circle, and excludes later abstract painters working without a direct tie to this specific postwar American movement, who belong instead under Other Modernist Painters or Contemporary Painters.