"I see myself as a well-working lens, a perceiver of something that exists independently of me: don’t look at.mes , look at what I’ve found."
Hedda Sterne

©Nina Leen, The Irascibles, 1950. Hedda Sterne (top right), the only woman in the famed group of abstract artists, "The Irascible 18," in 1950.

From left to right, top to bottom: Willem de Kooning, Adolph Gottlieb, Ad Reinhardt, Hedda Sterne, Richard Pousette-Dart, William Baziotes, Jackson Pollock, Clyfford Still, Robert Motherwell, Bradley Walker Tomlin, Theodoros Stamos, Max Ernst, Barnett Newman, James Brooks, and Mark Rothko.