PAPERMAG: THE NEXT IRASCIBLES (CLOSE)

"The Irascibles," 1950, Photographed by Nina Leen (Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)

THE NEW IRASCIBLES Pictured from left rear: Willem De Kooning, Adolph Gottlieb, Ad Reinhardt, Hedda Sterne; next row: Richard Pousette-Dart, William Baziotes, Jimmy Ernst, Jackson Pollock, James Brooks, Clyfford Still, Robert Motherwell, Bradley Walker Tomlin; foreground: Theodoros Stamos, Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko. Missing from photo: Weldon Kees, Fritz Bultman and Hans Hofmann.