Figuration Never Died

Karen Wilkin is an independent curator and art critic specialising in 20th-century Modernism. She has organised numerous exhibitions internationally and is the author of monographs on Stuart Davis, David Smith, Anthony Caro, Kenneth Noland, Helen Frankenthaler, and Hans Hofmann. Bruce Weber was senior curator at the National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts. His specialty is in American painting, sculpture, and drawings from the late-18th century to the mid-20th century, and he has also frequently curated and written on contemporary American art. Danny Lichtenfeld is the director of the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center in Brattleboro, Vermont.

• Director's StatementDanny LichtenfeldAcknowledgmentsForewordBruce WeberFiguration Never DiedKaren WilkinTen New York Painterly PaintersRobert De Niro, Sr.Lois DoddJane FreilicherPaul GeorgesGrace HartiganWolf KahnAlex KatzAlbert KreschPaul ResikaAnne TabachnickExhibition ChecklistPhotography Credits