Diebenkorn began making his earliest abstractions not long after.
As a product it had much in common with earlier geometric abstraction and suprematism.
In photographs and drawings, Usonia's houses look like early 20th-century geometric abstractions, or even Constructivist sculpture.
Mr. Butler is toying like a Pop artist with conventions of early 20th-century abstraction.
The exhibition's opening gallery represents several kinds of earlier American geometric abstractions.
The biomorphic shapes of his early abstractions were derived from objects found in the studio.
At Home in the West He began creating his earliest abstractions not long after.
His early abstractions played at the 1929 Baden-Baden Festival to international acclaim despite their being almost eight years old.
For example, there is neither an early abstraction from the teens by Hartley, nor a major example of his late figurative or landscape work included here.
In the '50s, Jenkins achieved prominence both in New York and Europe for his early abstractions.