Aiming to shed new light on a crucial stage in the evolution of American Abstractionism, this volume reproduces works from the 1930s and 1940s by Josef Albers, Willem de Kooning, Burgoyne Diller, Suzy Frelinghuysen, Alexander Calder, and more than 50 other artists. All the 162 images are from the J. Donald Nichols Collection, and they include works by members of the American Abstract Artists group and the Museum of Non-Objective Painting in New York, the Transcendental Painting Group in New Mexico, the New Bauhaus school centred around Laszlo Moholy-Nagy in Chicago, and regional modernists from Pennsylvania, California, the Pacific Northwest and the Deep South.