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Record factCatalog or archival metadata presented as a record claim with source visibility where available.

Source interpretationAn interpretation attributed to a cited source; it is not silently converted into object fact.

AEU editorial mappingA normalization or navigation relationship created by AEU; useful for discovery, not a source claim by itself.

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Institutions

Museums, galleries, schools, clubs, archives, and other institutions represented by the validated corpus.

gallery or institution

The Museum of Modern Art

Museum venue for the validated 2010–2011 Abstract Expressionist New York exhibition fixture. AEU does not infer current floor configuration from historical exhibition data.

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  • 1 direct source

gallery or institution

National Gallery of Art

No summary is stored in the current validated AEU foundation corpus.

  • museum
  • 1 direct source

gallery or institution

Denver Art Museum

Museum venue for the 2016 Women of Abstract Expressionism exhibition represented as a recovery/history node in AEU012.

  • museum
  • 1 direct source

gallery or institution

The Studio Museum in Harlem

Museum founded in Harlem and a major institutional site for Black artists, postwar abstraction, and later canon-reassessment exhibitions represented in AEU013.

  • museum
  • 2 direct sources

gallery or institution

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Philadelphia art museum and school represented here as the originating venue of the first comprehensive museum retrospective of Norman Lewis.

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  • 1 direct source

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Brooklyn Museum

New York museum represented through the 2014 exhibition Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties.

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  • 1 direct source

gallery or institution

Institute of American Indian Arts

Santa Fe arts school founded in 1962; AEU uses its documented experimental educational role without treating all students or faculty as one style.

  • school
  • 2 direct sources

gallery or institution

IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts

Museum and collection developed from IAIA’s student/faculty collecting history; venue and organizer for Action/Abstraction Redefined.

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  • 2 direct sources

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Washington Gallery of Modern Art

Washington, D.C. venue for the 1965 Washington Color Painters exhibition. AEU uses the institution as a historical network node, not as proof of one shared style.

  • museum
  • 1 direct source

gallery or institution

The Club

A New York discussion organization central to artist social/intellectual exchange. Archival and oral-history sources disagree on whether its founding should be dated 1948 or late 1949; AEU preserves that disagreement.

  • club
  • 2 direct sources

gallery or institution

Betty Parsons Gallery

New York gallery opened by Betty Parsons in 1946 and closely documented in relation to early Abstract Expressionist artists.

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  • 2 direct sources

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Kootz Gallery

Mid-century New York gallery established by Samuel Kootz and documented as supporting emerging modernist and Abstract Expressionist artists.

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  • 1 direct source

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Stable Gallery

New York gallery opened in 1953, associated with artist-selected annuals and multiple artists in and around the New York School.

  • gallery
  • 1 direct source

gallery or institution

Tanager Gallery

Artist cooperative gallery operating 1952–1962 on 10th Street, documented as an alternative to uptown commercial galleries.

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  • 2 direct sources

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Sidney Janis Gallery

New York gallery established in 1948 whose surviving catalog series documents exhibitions by numerous postwar artists.

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  • 2 direct sources

gallery or institution

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Museum institution recorded only as the venue for the source-backed 2013 Gutai retrospective in the current AEU corpus.

  • museum
  • 1 direct source

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