New York Figurative Expressionism

Marsden Hartley’s 1941 painting of “Lobster Fishermen” inspired by fishermen from his home state of Maine.

New York Figurative Expressionism is a visual arts movement and a branch of American Figurative Expressionism. Though the movement dates to the 1930s, it was not formally classified as “figurative expressionism” until the term arose as a counter-distinction to the New York–based postwar movement known as Abstract Expressionism.

Marsden Hartley’s “Adelard the Drowned, Master of the Phantom,” 1939.

Max Weber’s sculpture “Aurora,” 1937.

Edwin Dickinson’s “Portrait of Biala,” 1924.