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Description A photograph of 15 of the so-called Irascibles, taken by Nina Leen on November 24, 1950 and published in Life magazine on January 15, 1951. Front row: Theodore Stamos, Jimmy Ernst, Barnett Newman, James Brooks, and Mark Rothko; middle row: Richard Pousette-Dart, William Baziotes, Jackson Pollock, Clyfford Still, Robert Motherwell, and Bradley Walker Tomlin; back row: Willem de Kooning, Adolph Gottlieb, Ad Reinhardt, and Hedda Sterne.
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Source (WP:NFCC#4) http://www.nybooks.com/multimedia/view-photo/2033/
Date of publication 24 November 1950
Use in article (WP:NFCC#7) The Irascibles
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Nina Leen's 1951 Life photograph has become the touchstone for canonical lists of the New York School. Irving Sandler used it as the frontispiece and rear dust jacket photograph of his The Triumph of American Painting: A History of Abstract Expressionism, published in 1970. This book defined Abstract Expressionism for a generation of scholars.

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Minimal use (WP:NFCC#3) This group portrait of 18 people is 414 by 500 pixels, or 45KB. While available elsewhere at higher resolution, this is considered sufficient to identify individual members of the group.
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Other information Irving Sandler, historian of the New York School and Abstract Expressionism wrote in 2003: "This group portrait has been reproduced so often and disseminated so widely that it has become the image whereby we invision the artists who achieved the triumph of American painting". Sandler, Irving (2003). In Daniel A. Siedell. Weldon Kees and the Arts at Midcentury. University of Nebraska Press. pp. 39-50.
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