American Abstract Artists 1937

This list of names, "American Abstract Artists," a document with signatures or checkmarks, is like a drawing with words and gestures. The handwriting has a certain rhythm, right? Some names are firmly planted, others kind of trail off, and those little checkmarks are like tiny abstract paintings themselves, each one slightly different. Look at the texture of the paper, the way the ink bleeds just a bit; it's a physical thing, this record of a moment. It makes you think about what it meant to be an abstract artist at that time. Was it a radical act? A community? A secret club? I imagine they were all in a room together, maybe arguing about Mondrian, or just gossiping. Each name represents someone who was pushing boundaries, trying to figure out how to make something new. Think of other artists like Ad Reinhardt, who also embraced a kind of reductive approach. This list is a conceptual gesture, a way of thinking about art as an ongoing process of questioning and discovery.