New York Artists

Artists who have lived and worked in New York, from the Hudson River School and Harlem Renaissance to Abstract Expressionism and Pop.

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New York became a centre of American art in the 19th century, when Thomas Cole and the Hudson River School painted the wilderness upstate. Around 1900, painters of the Ashcan School, such as John Sloan and George Bellows, turned to tenements and boxing rings. In the 1920s the Harlem Renaissance gave Black artists including Aaron Douglas a platform.

After the Second World War the city took over from Paris as the capital of modern art. Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning led Abstract Expressionism, and John Cage's silent piece 4′33″ (1952) opened art to chance. Robert Rauschenberg combined paint with rubbish, Frank Stella's black stripe paintings of 1959 cooled things down, and Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol borrowed from comics and advertising. Diane Arbus photographed the city's margins, and in the 1980s Jean-Michel Basquiat moved from street graffiti to painting, while Jeff Koons made gleaming replicas of consumer goods.