The Irascible Eighteen  

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The Irascibles or The Irascible Eighteen were a group of Abstract Expressionists which included of Hedda Sterne, Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko.

They were a group of abstract painters who protested the Metropolitan Museum of Art's policy towards American painting of the 1940s and who posed for a famous picture in 1950; members of the group besides Sterne included: Willem de Kooning, Adolph Gottlieb, Ad Reinhardt, Richard Pousette-Dart, William Baziotes, Jimmy Ernst, Jackson Pollock, James Brooks, Clyfford Still, Robert Motherwell, Bradley Walker Tomlin, Theodoros Stamos, Barnett Newman, and Mark Rothko.

They were referred to as The Irascibles in an article featured in an issue of Life where the infamous Nina Leen photograph[1] was published of all members of "The Irascibles".

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