The exhibition does so simply by interspersing American and European work in an opening gallery of postwar abstract painting.

For that reason there are histories of American postwar abstract painting, and museum surveys of that same subject, in which she plays no part.

She was a major contributor to the history of postwar American painting.

Ms. Herrera has an honorable place in postwar geometric painting, and this fine show should help secure it.

If a special place hasn't yet been reserved for them in the story of postwar American painting, it should be.

Anyone who gets a firm grasp of these six paintings will have something important to say about postwar American painting.

In 1979-1980, only 14 postwar paintings sold for $1 million or more; in 1987-1988, the figure rocketed to 121.

But it's still a treat for anyone interested in postwar painting and, more generally, the challenges faced by young painters.

It raises the complex issue of the human figure in postwar German painting.

Those were the years in which postwar American painting first came to widespread international notice.