Dan Budnik: Picturing Artists, 1950s-1960s

The young Jasper Johns stands atop a small ladder to smooth one of the gridlines on his silver “Numbers” painting of 1964. Photographed the same year, Roy Lichtenstein strides thoughtfully across his studio floor while his two young sons read from dozens of comic books on the floor. In 1967, Diane Arbus leans against a tabletop at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, nonchalant in a white minidress and matching thigh-high boots, while her camera hangs heavily around her neck. This compelling portrait collection features many of the most important and pioneering artists of the postwar period in American art, including Henri Cartier-Bresson, Lee Bontecou, Louise Bourgeois, John Chamberlain, Willem de Kooning, Helen Frankenthaler, Philip Guston, Ellsworth Kelly, Louise Nevelson, Barnett Newman, Isamu Noguchi, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, Mark Rothko and many others.