Abstract Expressionism emerged in New York during the early 1940s and became the first American art movement to achieve international influence. A small group of painters, many of them immigrants or children of immigrants, broke with European tradition by treating the canvas as an arena for spontaneous, large-scale gesture. The movement divided loosely in…
Works of Abstract Expressionism are held in 120 museums worldwide, including National Gallery of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Museum of Modern Art.
Key artists
Work by these painters is spread across the museums listed below.
🇦🇺 Australia
1 museum
Also in AustraliaNational Gallery of Australia (6)
🇧🇪 Belgium
1 museum
Also in BelgiumMu.ZEE - Kunstmuseum aan Zee (29)
🇨🇦 Canada
1 museum
Also in CanadaNational Gallery of Canada (6)
🇫🇷 France
1 museum
Also in FranceMusée National d'Art Moderne (13)
🇩🇪 Germany
5 museums
Also in GermanyMuseum Ludwig (17)Neue Nationalgalerie (17)Sprengel Museum (10)Wallraf–Richartz Museum (7)Museum Frieder Burda (6)
🇮🇱 Israel
1 museum
Also in IsraelIsrael Museum (15)
🇳🇱 Netherlands
1 museum
Also in NetherlandsStedelijk Museum Amsterdam (12)
🇪🇸 Spain
2 museums
Also in SpainMuseo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (14)Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum (10)
🇸🇪 Sweden
1 museum
Also in SwedenHilma af Klint Foundation (14)
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
1 museum
Also in United KingdomTate (41)
🇺🇸 United States
35 museums
Also in United StatesNational Gallery of Art (3518)Metropolitan Museum of Art (383)Museum of Modern Art (136)Smithsonian American Art Museum (104)Yale University Art Gallery (58)Whitney Museum of American Art (54)Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (45)Buffalo AKG Art Museum (44)Museum of Fine Arts Boston (41)Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (41)Art Institute of Chicago (37)Seattle Art Museum (26)Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (22)Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (21)Los Angeles County Museum of Art (20)Detroit Institute of Arts (19)Carnegie Museum of Art (18)Harvard Art Museums (18)Vanderbilt Museum of Art (17)San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (16)Fogg Museum (14)Princeton Art Museum (14)The Phillips Collection (13)Philadelphia Museum of Art (13)Cleveland Museum of Art (12)Dallas Museum of Art (12)The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (11)Minneapolis Institute of Art (10)RISD Museum (9)Saint Louis Art Museum (8)Museo de Arte de Worcester (8)Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (8)Indianapolis Museum of Art (6)Cincinnati Art Museum (6)New Britain Museum of American Art (6)
70 more museums hold Abstract Expressionism works with smaller collections, not listed here.
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National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. holds the largest Abstract Expressionism collection with 3518 works.