Nadelman fused classical influences with the subject matter and imagery of popular culture. Using bronze, marble, wood and plaster, he created stylized, curvilinear emblems of modern life whose formal motifs referenced both the antique and the modern.

Author Biography

Barbara Haskell has been a curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art since 1975: she is now Curator of Early Twentieth Century Art. A well-known scholar on American art, she most recently curated Edward Steichen, as well as organized and wrote the book for Part One of the landmark exhibition, The American Century: Art & Culture 1900-2000. Ms. Haskell has written extensively on early 20th-century American modernists and has authored monographs on a range of artists including Marsden Hartley (1980), Milton Avery (1982), Ralston Crawford (1985), Charles Demuth (1987), Burgoyne Diller (1990) and Joseph Stella (1994). She has also organized exhibitions and written on contemporary art and artists, including Agnes Martin (1992), Donald Judd (1988) and BLAM! The Explosion of Pop, Minimalism and Performance 1958-1964 (1984).