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John Elderfield, chief curator of painting and sculpture, Museum of Modern Art. Courtesy Museum of Modern Art.
Photo by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders. Courtesy Museum of Modern Art.

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Kirk Varnedoe, who served for 13 years as chief curator of painting and sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, died in 2003 at the age of 57. Courtesy of Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N.J.

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Cover art: Pictures of Nothing: Abstract Art since Pollock by Kirk Varnedoe. Courtesy of Princeton University Press.