Artwork summaries

Here we bring together over fifty summary texts about individual artworks in Tate’s collection that were written as part of the Refiguring American Art research project. These include the very earliest acquisitions made by Tate in the field of American art, going back to 1914. To show how Tate’s collection of art from the United States grew over time, the works are listed here in the order in which they were acquired.

Henry Muhrman, Kew Bridge c.1898 (Tate N02996)
Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Robert Louis Stevenson c.1887–93 (Tate N03431)
Neville Cain, John S. Sargent c.1875 (Tate N03993)
Herbert Haseltine, Suffolk Punch Stallion: Sudbourne Premier 1931–2 (Tate N04560)
Charles Burchfield, Freight Cars in March 1933 (Tate N04833)
John Marin, Downtown, New York 1923 (Tate T00080)
Sam Francis, Painting 1957 (Tate T00148)
Philip Guston, The Return 1956–8 (Tate T00252)
James Brooks, Boon 1957 (Tate T00253)
Mark Rothko, Light Red Over Black 1957 (Tate T00275)
Dorothea Tanning, A Mi-Voix 1959 (Tate T00298)
Ben Shahn, Lute and Molecules 1958 (Tate T00314)
Jacques Lipchitz, Study for Monument to ‘The Spirit of Enterprise’ 1953 (Tate T00320)
Ben Shahn, Lute and Molecules 1958 (Tate T00314)
Man Ray, Pisces 1938 (Tate T00324)
Jackson Pollock, Number 23 1948 (Tate T00384)
Hassel Smith, Untitled 1959 (Tate T00383)
Jackson Pollock, Yellow Islands 1952 (Tate T00436)
William N. Copley, Place de l’Opéra 1956 (Tate T00442)
Jasper Johns, 0 Through 9 1961 (Tate T00454)
Mark Tobey, Northwest Drift 1958 (Tate T00463)
Alexander Calder, Antennae with Red and Blue Dots c.1953 (Tate T00541)
Lee Bontecou, Drawing 1961 (Tate T00506)
Morris Graves, Spring with Machine Age Noise No. 1 1957 (Tate T00520)
Stephen Greene, The Return 1950 (Tate T00526)
Richard Lindner, Homage to a Cat 1952 (Tate T00538)
Milton Avery, Yellow Sky 1958 (Tate T00575)
Frank Roth, Transylvania 1962 (Tate T00600)
Milton Avery, Yellow Sky 1958 (Tate T00575)
Ernest Trova, Falling Man 80 1963 (Tate T00666)
Louise Nevelson, An American Tribute to the British People 1960–4 (Tate T00796)
Jim Dine, Walking Dream with Four Foot Clamp 1965 (Tate T00761)
James Wines, Homage to Léger 1965 (Tate T00760)
Mark Rothko, Black on Maroon 1958 (Tate T01031)
Alexander Calder, Black Sun 1953 (Tate T01090)
John Chamberlain, Kora 1963 (Tate T01094)
Mark Rothko, Black on Maroon 1958 (Tate T01163)
Mark Rothko, Black on Maroon 1958 (Tate T01164)
Mark Rothko, Red on Maroon 1959 (Tate T01165)
Mark Rothko, Black on Maroon 1959 (Tate T01166)
Mark Rothko, Red on Maroon 1959 (Tate T01167)
Mark Rothko, Red on Maroon 1959 (Tate T01168)
Mark Rothko, Red on Maroon 1959 (Tate T01169)
Mark Rothko, Black on Maroon 1959 (Tate T01170)
Matta, Black Virtue 1943 (Tate T01232)
Carl Andre, Last Ladder 1959 (Tate T01533)
Robert Morris, Location Piece 1973 (Tate P07235)
Ludwig Sander, Three Blues 1966 (Tate P01798)
Josef Albers, White Line Square IV 1966 (Tate P01786)
Eva Hesse, Addendum 1967 (Tate T02394)
Mark Rothko, Untitled 1969 (Tate T04149)
Jackson Pollock, Number 14 1951 (Tate T03978)
Barnett Newman, Untitled Etching #1 1969 (Tate P77732)
Ellsworth Kelly, Saint Martin Landscape 1979 (Tate P12117)
Andy Warhol, Head of a Girl and Children 1958–61 (Tate AR00282)
Berenice Abbott, Dinty Moore Antiques c.1937 (Tate P13098)
Berenice Abbott, Tri-Boro Barber Shop 1935 (Tate P13100)
Lewis Baltz, Houston A, Houston B 1972 (Tate P80062)
Hedda Sterne, NY, NY No. X 1948 (Tate T13861)
Robert Morris, Untitled 1967–8, remade 2008 (Tate T14224)
Anni Albers, TR III 1969–70 (Tate P14776)

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