Contemporary Art Survey

Northwestern University, Fall 2026

Pablo Picasso, Glass and Bottle of Suze, 1912

Marcel Duchamp, Bottle Rack, 1914

Alfred Barr, Cubism and Abstract Art, 1936

Diego Rivera, Man at the Crossroads, 1933

Willem de Kooning, Asheville, 1948

Jackson Pollock, Lavender Mist, 1950

Helen Frankenthaler, Mountains and Sea, 1952

Morris Louis, Faces, 1958

Kenneth Noland, Half, 1959

Jackson Pollock painting Autumn Rhythm, photographed by Hans Namuth, 1950

Kazuo Shiraga, Challenge to the Mud, 1955 (at the first Gutai exhibition in Tokyo)

Allan Kaprow, 18 Happenings in Six Parts, 1959

Yayoi Kusama, Accumulation No. 1, 1962

Robert Rauschenberg, Erased de Kooning, 1953

Robert Rauschenberg, Broadcast, 1959

Jasper Johns, Flag, 1954-1955

Jasper Johns, Target with Plaster Casts, 1955

Richard Hamilton, Just What Is It that Makes Today’s Homes So Different, So Appealing?, 1956

Claes Oldenburg, Floor Cake, 1962

Marisol Escobar, Love, 1962

James Rosenquist, The F-111, 1965

Roy Lichtenstein, White Brush Stroke, 1965

Andy Warhol, Green Coca-Cola Bottles, 1962

Andy Warhol, White Burning Car III, 1963

Frank Stella, Die Fahne Hoch, 1959

Donald Judd, Untitled, 1965

Hélio Oiticica, “Tropicália” exhibition, 1967

Richard Serra, Splashing with 4 Molds, 1969

Richard Serra, One Ton Prop (House of Cards), 1969

Eva Hesse, Repetition 19 III, 1968

Lawrence Weiner, Two minutes of spray paint directly upon the floor from a standard aerosol can, 1968

Chris Burden, Trans-fixed, 1974

Yoko Ono, Cut Piece, 1964

Adrian Piper, from Mythic Being project, 1973

Robert Smithson, Nonsite (Essen Soil and Mirrors), 1969

Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty, 1970

Hank Willis Thomas, Colonialism and Abstract Art, 2019