Jack Tworkov (American, born Poland, 1900–1982) "West 23rd." 1963 Oil on canvas, 60" x 6' 8" (152.6 x 203.3 cm) The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Purchase © Estate of Jack Tworkov, courtesy Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York

By Mackie Healy, Art Market Views Contributor

This fall, for the first time in over forty years, MoMA is flaunting its Abstract Expressionist holdings. In The Big Picture: Abstract Expressionist New York, curator Ann Temkin features lesser-known Ab-Ex works from the collection alongside the old familiars.

The exhibition traces  the movement’s development from its origins in the 1940s through its height in the late 1960s. In a complete re-installation of the fourth floor, the show will feature approximately 300 works in a variety of mediums by about 40 artists. The big guns are amply represented with no shortage of examples by Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko,  David Smith, Barnett Newman and Willem de Kooning. Women artists are also given their due, including Grace Hartigan, Louise Nevelson, Lee Krasner and Joan Mitchell.

Temkin rounds up some lesser known lights including George McNeil and Bradley Walker Tomlin.

There is also a healthy dose of photography, including Minor White, Frederick Sommer, Aaron Siskind, Robert Frank and Harry Callahan.

The Big Pictures: Abstract Expressionist New York will be on view from October 3, 2010 through April 25, 2011.

Here is a list of artists and works which made the cut:

William Baziotes
Dwarf, 1947
Pompeii, 1955

Romare Bearden
The Silent Valley of Sunrise, 1959

James Brooks
Qualm, 1954

Harry Callahan
Chicago, c. 1949
Grasses in Snow, Detroit, 1943
Sunlight on Water, 1943

Paul Caponigro
Untitled, 1959

Willem de Kooning
Litho #2 (Waves #2), 1960
Painting, 1948
Seated Woman, 1952
A Tree in Naples, 1960
Valentine, 1947
Woman, I, 1950–52

Herbert Ferber
He Is Not a Man, 1950

Sam Francis
Big Red, 1953

Robert Frank
Ticker Tape, New York, 1951

Helen Frankenthaler
Great Meadows, 1951

Arshile Gorky
Agony, 1947
Diary of a Seducer, 1945
Garden in Sochi, c. 1943
Study for “Summation,” 1946

Adolph Gottlieb
Apparition, 1945
Blast, I, 1957
Man Looking at Woman, 1949

Philip Guston
The Clock, 1956–57
Drawing, 1953

David Hare
Magician’s Game, 1944 (cast 1946)

Grace Hartigan
Shinnecock Canal, 1957

Hans Hofmann
Memoria in Aeternum, 1962

Franz Kline
Chief, 1950
Painting Number 2, 1954
Untitled II, c. 1952

Lee Krasner
Gaea, 1966
Untitled, 1949

Ibram Lassaw
Kwannon, 1952

Norman Lewis
Phantasy II, 1946

Nathan Lyons
Untitled, 1958
Untitled, 1959

George McNeil
Constanza, 1958

Joan Mitchell
Grandes Carrières, 1961–62
Ladybug, 1957

Robert Motherwell
Elegy to the Spanish Republic, 54, 1957–61
The Little Spanish Prison, 1941–44
Open Number 24 in Variations of Orange, 1968
Pancho Villa, Dead and Alive, 1943

Louise Nevelson
Sky Cathedral, 1958

Barnett Newman
The Blessing, 1944
Canto VII from “18 Cantos,” 1963
Canto VIII from “18 Cantos,” 1963
Canto X from “18 Cantos,” 1964
Canto XI from “18 Cantos,” 1964
Onement, I, 1948
Untitled, 1946
Vir Heroicus Sublimis, 1950–51
The Wild, 1950

Jackson Pollock
Easter and the Totem,1953
Echo: Number 25, 1951
Full Fathom Five, 1947
Number 1A, 1948
One: Number 31, 1950
The She-Wolf, 1943
Untitled, c. 1943–44
Untitled, c. 1943–44
Untitled, c. 1943–44
Untitled, c. 1950
Untitled (4), 1944–45
Untitled (8), 1944–45

Richard Pousette-Dart
Chavade, 1951
Fugue Number 2, 1943

Ad Reinhardt
Abstract Painting, 1963
Abstract Painting, Red, 1952
Number 107, 1950

Milton Resnick
Burning Bush, 1959
Pictograph, c. 1945
Untitled (E # E), c. 1945
Voyager’s Return, 1946

Mark Rothko
Archaic Idol, 1945
No. 1 (Untitled), 1948
No. 10, 1950
No. 16 (Red, Brown, and Black), 1958
Slow Swirl at the Edge of the Sea, 1944
Untitled, 1969–70

Siskind, Aaron
Arizpe, Mexico 21, 1966
Chicago, 1949
Kentucky, 1951
Martha’s Vineyard, 1954

David Smith
Australia, 1951
Cubi X, 1963
Don Quixote, 1952
History of LeRoy Borton, 1956
A Letter, 1952
Sentinel, 1961
Untitled (Tank Totems), 1953

Frederick Sommer
Sumaré, 1951

Theodoros Stamos
Sounds in the Rock, 1946

Clyfford Still
1944-N No. 2, 1944
1951-T No. 3, 1951

Mark Tobey
Edge of August, 1953
Wild Field, 1959

Bradley Walker Tomlin
Number 9: In Praise of Gertrude Stein, 1950
Number 20, 1949

Jack Tworkov
West 23rd, 1963
The Wheel, 1953

Minor White
Peeled Paint on Store Window, San Francisco, 1951