Ms. Helfond's work of the last several decades therefore lacks the intense emotional conviction of her earlier prints.

The editor of Asia's leading business magazine frets that the crisis may "negate much of the hard work and progress of the past two decades."

Yet, the Atheneum has pulled this off, despite being relatively weak in the work of the last four decades.

Not surprisingly, Stella's work of the last two decades has focused on enlarging the sense of space in his pictures - but in a radical way.

I intended from the start to make the collection as "contemporary" as possible, with a good proportion of the stories representing the work of the two decades since the Council.

This week, two concerts - Sunday and Wednesday - may help change that by offering a cross-section of Mr. Tenney's widely varied work of the last five decades.

The past years have seen the foundation continue to build on its the work of the first four decades, working in the maritime, welfare and international cooperation fields.

Jones's return to African themes in her work of the past several decades coincided with the black expressionistic movement in the United States during the 1960s.

"We believe that Mass Moca is a valid concept that no museum provides: to properly exhibit the work of the last three decades."

Mr. Barnet's work of the last three decades has won enormous popularity, though not necessarily in the art world.