Caught By Politics: Art of the 1930s and 1940s
January 19–March 18, 2001
Lower Galleries
Lower Galleries
Selected works

Reuben Kadish
Job
1945
Arshile Gorky
Golden Brown Painting
1943–44
Werner Drewes
Re-awakening
1943–47
Karl Zerbe
Armory
1943
Fernand Léger
Les grands plongeurs (The Divers)
1941
William Baziotes
Still Life
1945
William Baziotes
Night Form
1947
Fred Becker
Inferno
1946
Max Beckmann
Les artistes mit Gemüse (Artists with Vegetable)
1943
Max Beckmann
Self Portrait, from the portfolio Day and Dream
1946
Max Beckmann
Weather-vane, from the portfolio Day and Dream
1946
Max Beckmann
Sleeping Athlete, from the portfolio Day and Dream
1946
Max Beckmann
I Don't Want to Eat My Soup, from the portfolio Day and Dream
1946
Max Beckmann
King and Demagogue, from the portfolio Day and Dream
1946
Max Beckmann
Dream of War, from the portfolio Day and Dream
1946
Max Beckmann
Morning, from the portfolio Day and Dream
1946
Max Beckmann
Circus, from the portfolio Day and Dream
1946
Max Beckmann
The Fall of Man, from the portfolio Day and Dream
1946
Max Beckmann
Christ and Pilate, from the portfolio Day and Dream
1946
Alexander Calder
Bayonets Menacing a Flower
1945
Julio de Diego
Our Undersea Craft Have Been Raiding Supply Lines
1943
Werner Drewes
Apocalyptic Beasts
1945
Marcel Duchamp
Pocket Chess Set
1944
Max Ernst
L’oeil du silence (The Eye of Silence)
1943–44
Stanley William Hayter
Printing plate for Amazon
1945
Mauricio Lasansky
Spring
1947
Peter Grippe
The City II
1946
Philip Guston
If This Be Not I
1945
Stanley William Hayter
Amazon
1945
Stanley William Hayter
Palimpsest
1946
Hans Hofmann
White Space
1950
Yasuo Kuniyoshi
Tomorrow Will Come
1945
Jacques Lipchitz
Mother and Child
1949
Fernand Léger
Les belles cyclistes (The Women Cyclists)
1944
Roberto Matta
Lambeaux Iron-Oniriques (Iron-Oneiric Scraps)
1942
Roberto Matta
Untitled
1945
Jacques Lipchitz
The Joy of Orpheus I
1945
Robert Motherwell
9th Street Collage
1951
André Racz
Perseus Beheading Medusa, VIII
1945
Abraham Rattner
Job
1949
György Kepes
Optical Transformation
1940
György Kepes
Bread and Light
1937
György Kepes
Shadow Picture
1938
Nathan Lerner
Wooden Dowels Light Box Experiment
1939
Edward John Stevens Jr.
Arrival of the Village Princess
1945
Rufino Tamayo
Lion and Horse
1942
Yves Tanguy
La tour marine (Tower of the Sea)
1944