In 1952 Henri Matisse was asked to create a stained-glass window for the mausoleum of art collector Albert Lasker, and he took on the project with enthusiasm.

"I feel the wonder of a small figure walking in space."

The art of Jasper Johns refuses easy summary, and Device offers no exception.

In 1950 Franz Kline dramatically abandoned his figurative style to arrive at his elemental architectonic abstractions.

Between 1947 and 1950, American painter Jackson Pollock perfected his revolutionary drip technique,

Andrew Dasburg was born in Paris in 1887. After his father died he moved with his mother to Nittel, Germany and in 1892 to New York City. He was injured in a fall, and in 1894 he attended a school for crippled children where he learned how to draw and work with wood and metal. In 1902, Dasburg went to study at the Art Students League where he studied under Robert Henri.