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                          Samples from the Audio Tour:
                    
 
Admission to Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art, 1940–1976 includes an iPod multimedia tour for visitors 12 and older. Use the audio interface above to hear samples from the Action/Abstraction audio tour. The free browser plug-in, Flash Player, is required to listen to the audio clips. If you do not already have this plug-in, you can click here to download it for free.

 
Referenced works of art:
The following paintings are referenced in the audio tour samples on this page.
convergence

gotham news

twilight sounds
PICTURED WORKS OF ART


Action Abstraction Catalogue David Smith, American, 1906–1965; Cubi XIV, 1963; stainless steel; 125 1/2 x 78 x 30 3/4 inches; Saint Louis Art Museum, Friends Fund 32:1979; Art © Estate of David Smith / Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY

Jackson Pollock, American, 1912–1956; Convergence, 1952; oil on canvas; 93 1/2 x 155 inches; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y., Gift of Seymour H. Knox Jr., 1956; © 2008 The Pollock-Krasner Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Willem de Kooning, American (born Netherlands), 1904–1997; Gotham News, 1955; oil on canvas; 69 x 79 inches; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y., Gift of Seymour H. Knox Jr., 1955; © 2008 The Willem de Kooning Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Norman Lewis, American, 1909–1979; Twilight Sounds, 1947; oil on canvas; 23 1/2 x 28 inches; Saint Louis Art Museum, Funds given by Mr. and Mrs. John Peters MacCarthy, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Saligman, Billy E. Hodges, and Art Enrichment Fund 88:2007; Image courtesy of the Bill Hodges Gallery, New York, NY
 
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