Mott #3, Philip Guston, 1959, Gouache, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James T. Wyman

Marks of Intention: Abstract Art on Paper, 1945-2005

Sunday, June 11, 2006—Sunday, March 4, 2007
Gallery 263
Free Exhibition

This exhibition features a selection of more than fifty drawings, prints, and artist's books that demonstrates the persistent interest in abstraction and non-objective art among modern and contemporary artists working in the postwar era. The works on view were drawn entirely from the museum’s permanent collection and range from Jackson Pollock’s rare early experimental etchings to Robert Motherwell’s dynamic gestural color prints to Brice Marden’s monochromatic minimalist abstractions. The exhibition includes examples by Willem de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Helen Frankenthaler, Philip Guston, Joan Mitchell, Cy Twombly, Beauford Delaney, Richard Diebenkorn, Louise Bourgeois, Sam Francis, John Newman, Mel Kendrick, Julie Mehretu, and others.