Vatican Museums

The section dedicated to the United States offers an unusual selection of American art from the second half of the twentieth century. This rich collection illustrates some of the phases that precede and succeed the phase of Action Painting, recording signs of the osmosis between American art and European avant-gardes and offering a glimpse of some of the late developments of the figurative trend, which ran parallel to the success of artists such as Pollock, de Kooning and Rothko. In the room, as well as the Columbian Fernando Botero's ironic painting Trip to the Ecumenical Council, there are works by the painters Will Barnet, sensitive to abstract and informal research, Philip Evergood, influenced by deformations of the expressionist type, and Leonard Baskin, a sculptor, painter and carver, who proposes a harsh reinterpretation of the figurative tradition.