"Everybody knows and loves Rothko's large abstract canvases ... nearly 3,000 works on paper," said curator Adam Greenhalgh. Now, an exhibit at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C ...

Gorky affixed this work on paper, The Limit (1947 ... Surrealism and the emerging field of Abstract Expressionism, per the Smithsonian American Art Museum. He was often inspired by memories ...