WEEGEE "DISTORTION: PAINTER" c. 1950s repurposed material he created figurative works throughout

he created figurative works throughout his career

The menu cover is a paradigm of Simpson's oeuvre

made up the quartet of abstract painters that radically defined Modern painting in America and established New York City as the new center of the art world

squishy sculptures of an ice cream cone

Motherwell was the unofficial spokesman of the New York School of painters

WEEGEE "DISTORTION: PAINTER" c. 1950s repurposed material he created figurative works throughoutArthur Felling, better known as Weegee (1899 1968) was a highly successful (and notorious) photojournalist artist. In addition to contributing an enormous number of images to various American newspapers, he would become famous, beyond New York and news circles, after the publication of Naked City (1945) and Weegee's People (1946). Weegee began shooting scenes of crime, drama, tragedy and depravity throughout New York City in the 1930s for Acme