[The Irascibles] [graphic] / Nina Leen. 1950. Nov. 24.

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[The Irascibles] [graphic] / Nina Leen. 1950. Nov. 24.

Pictured from left rear: Willem De Kooning, Adolph Gottlieb, Ad Reinhardt, Hedda Sterne; next row: Richard Pousette-Dart, William Baziotes, Jimmy Ernst, Jackson Pollock, James Brooks, Clyfford Still, Robert Motherwell, Bradley Walker Tomlin; foreground: Theodoros Stamos, Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko. Missing from photo: Weldon Kees, Fritz Bultman and Hans Hofmann. Photographed by Nina Leen for Time/Life, 1951.

1 photographic print : b&w ; 26 x 21 cm.

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