We would like to thank the directors and curators of the following public collections (in alphabetical order of the institution) for their generous loans:

Stephanie Wiles, John G. W. Cowles Director, the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College; James Cuno, President and the Eloise W. Martin Director, and James Rondeau, Curator and the Frances and Thomas Dittmer Chair of the Department of Contemporary Art, the Art Institute of Chicago; Walter Soppelsa, Director, the Daros Collection, Zürich; Olga Viso, Director, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.; Dominique Szymusiak, Director and Curator, Musée départemental Matisse, Le Cateau-Cambrésis; Glenn Lowry, Director, and John Elderfield, Chief Curator of the Department of Painting and Sculpture, the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Marc F. Wilson, the Menefee D. and Mary Louise Blackwell Director/CEO, and Jan Schall, the Sanders Sosland Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City; Brent R. Benjamin, Director, Andrew Walker, Assistant Director for Curatorial Affairs, Cara McCarty, former Grace L. Brumbaugh and Richard E. Brumbaugh Curator of Decorative Arts and Design, Charlotte Eyerman, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, the Saint Louis Art Museum; Adam D. Weinberg, the Alice Pratt Brown Director, and David Kiehl, Curator of Prints, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

With gratitude we recognize the following private lenders: Glenn Fuhrman, New York; Judith Neisser, Chicago; Cindy and Howard E. Rachofsky, Dallas; Deedie and Rusty Rose, Dallas; and Howard and Donna Stone, Chicago.

Advice was generously provided by colleagues and friends from the lending institutions and beyond: Robin Clark, Associate Curator of Contemporary Art, the Saint Louis Art Museum; Anne Ellegood, Curator, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C; Mark Francis, Director, the Gagosian Gallery, London; Peter Freeman, Director, Peter Freeman, Inc., New York; Paul F. Haner, Paintings Conservator, the Saint Louis Art Museum; John R. Klein, Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art, University of Missouri-Columbia; David Leiber, Director, Sperone Westwater, New York; Peter MacKeith, Associate Director, the Sam Fox Arts Center and Associate Dean, the School of Architecture at Washington University, St. Louis; Allan Schwartzmann, Director of the Rachofsky Collection; Nancy Whyte, New York; and Joanna Woodall, Senior Lecturer, the Courtauld Institute of Art, London.

We thank our Registrars, Helene Rundell and Elise Hall, for their professional work, and our Facilities Manager, Steve Morby, for making impossible things possible.

Last but not least, our gratitude goes to the artists who took the time to respond to our questionnaire. Their generous and insightful answers, along with installation photographs of their works in our galleries, constitute this catalogue.

Edited by Matthias Waschek and Camran Mani. Production coordinated by Rachel Gagnon and Elise Hall. All installation and watercourt photography ©2007 Robert Pettus. Catalogue and Web site design by TOKY Branding + Design St. Louis.