The 50th Year, The New School
1969 · Lithograph
34 15/16 x 25" (88.8 x 63.5 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Jack Youngerman
1926
PaintingHard-Edge PaintingFiguration
Representation
None documented
6
Institutional Exhibitions
29
Works in Collection
55
Assets Indexed
2
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0
Publications Referenced
90%
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- • Hard-Edge Painting
- • Figuration
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Selected Institutional Exhibitions
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Posters by Painters
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1977
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76 Jefferson
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1975
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American Prints from the International Program
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1971
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Recent Acquisitions: Painting and Sculpture
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1965
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Recent Acquisitions
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1961–1962
About
Why this artist matters now
Jack Youngerman is an American painter whose biomorphic abstractions synthesize organic form and geometric precision through interlocking curved shapes in oil and acrylic. Working from the 1950s onward, he developed a distinctive vocabulary of color relationships and flowing contours that evoke botanical growth and movement without descending into figuration. His compositions hover between abstraction and suggestive form, creating a visual language rooted in the language of natural systems rather than direct representation.
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Hard-Edge Painting
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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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Cleveland Museum of Art
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Art Institute of Chicago
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