Akron Art Museum

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Art created since 1950 is featured in the Sandra L. and Dennis B. Haslinger Family Foundation Galleries. The eclecticism of style in late 20th century art is revealed through examples of postmodern painting and sculpture, photorealism, Pop art and works that continue surrealist and expressionist approaches. Galleries are organized thematically, an example being artists' varied representations of the human body. On view are Chuck Close 's Linda, a monumental early painting; Andy Warhol 's witty silkscreen painting Elvis; and Ohio carver and preacher Elijah Pierce's animated relief sculpture The Wise and Foolish Virgins and Four Other Scenes.

Other spaces explore both the subtlety and power of abstraction. Masterpieces by Donald Judd , Jackie Winsor and Sol LeWitt present an elegant vision of space ordered through geometry. Frank Stella 's enormous Diepholz (which is both painting and sculpture) and African artist El Anatsui's shimmering wall hanging made from hundreds of liquor bottle caps, address abstraction through a more emotional or instinctual world view.

A separate room in the Haslinger Family Galleries is devoted to the first work of installation art to enter the museum's collection - Atrabiliairios (Defiant), by Colombian sculptor Doris Salcedo. The piece's elegantly ordered rectangular niches belie its visceral content and materials related to the politics of Colombia.

represented artists

Ansel Adams      Diane Arbus      Harry Callahan      Chuck Close      Richard Deacon      Mark di Suvero      Robert Frank      Helen Frankenthaler      Gilbert & George      Phillip Guston

Childe Hassam      Donald Judd      Ed Moses      Claes Oldenburg      Nam June Paik      Frank Stella      Alfred Stieglitz      Andy Warhol