Treasury Secretaries Abstractly Expressed

These engravings are from the US Bureau of Engravings and Printings. Years listed after names are tenures not lifespans. Some non-Treasury secretaries are at the bottom of the page.

Alexander Hamilton (1789-95)

Ilya Bolotowsky – Grey Diamond [1955]

Alexander Hamilton (1789-95)

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy – A 19 [1927]

Alexander Hamilton (1789-95)

Saitō Yoshishige – Untitled [1965]


Alexander Hamilton (1789-95)

Georgia O'Keeffe – Red and Pink Rocks and Teeth [1938]


Alexander Hamilton (1789-95)

Morris Barazani – Spring is in all the Winters [1977]


Alexander Hamilton (1789-95)

Erika Giovanna Klien – Rhythm of Bird Flight [1935]

Oliver Wolcott Jr. (1795-1800)

Lee Krasner – Through Blue [1963]

Samuel Dexter (1801)

Fiona Rae – Figure 2c [2016]

Albert Gallatin (1801-14)

Lee Krasner Mosaic Table [1947]

George W. Campbell (1814)

Robert Delaunay Rythme n°1 [1938]

Alexander J. Dallas (1814-16)

Lee Krasner Bald Eagle [1955]

William H. Crawford (1816-25)

Alexandra Luke Observance to a Morn of May [1957]

Richard Rush (1825-29)

Robert Delaunay – Relief Rythme [1933]

Samuel D. Ingham (1829-31)

Norman Lewis Untitled [1961]

Louis McLane (1831-33)

Jackson Pollock – Watery Paths [1947]

William Duane (1833) 

Jackson Pollock – Blue Poles [1952]

Roger B. Taney (1833-34)

Joseph Stella – Battle of Lights, Coney Island, Mardi Gras [1913–14]

Levi Woodbury (1834-41)

Tran Tuan Sublimation of Soul [2016]

Thomas Ewing (1841)

 Bridget Riley – Lagoon 2 [1997]

Walter Forward (1841-43)

 Something by Bridget Riley (b. 1931-)

John C. Spencer (1843-44) 

Lee Krasner – Icarus [1964]

George M. Bibb (1844-45)

Isabel McLaughlin Qui Sait? [1950]

Robert J. Walker (1845–49)

Nestor Toro Terrain series [2015]

William Meredith (1849-50)

Jackson Pollock – White Light [1954]

Thomas Corwin (1850-53)

Kimberly Conrad – Bladeworks #47 [2015]

James Guthrie (1853-57)

Alexej von Jawlensky – Red Path, St. Prex [1915]

Howell Cobb (1857-60)

Nabil Nahas Untitled [2006]

Philip F. Thomas (1860-61)

Clyfford Still – PH-1074 [1956]

John A. Dix (1861)

Clyfford Still – PP-53 [1959]

Salmon P. Chase (1861-64)

Elaine de Kooning Bacchus #3 [1977]

William P. Fessenden (1864-65)

Kamrooz Arem – Bashful Seyed Oil [2020]

Hugh McCulloch (1865-69)

Olga Albizu – 900-50-80 [1978]

George S. Boutwell (1869-73)

Lee Krasner – Blue Level [1955]

William A. Richardson (1873-74)

Robert Delaunay – La Grande Portugaise [1916]

Benjamin H. Bristow (1874-76)

Clyfford Still – PH-1034 [1973]

Lot M. Morrill (1876-77)

Kazuo Nakamura – Forest [1953]

John Sherman (1877-81)

Norman Lewis – Multitudes [1946]

William Windom (1881)

Nabil Nahas Untitled [2019]

Charles Folger (1881-84)

Lee Krasner Untitled [1946]

Walter Q. Gresham (1884) 

Georgia O’Keeffe Black Rock with Blue Sky and White Clouds [1972]

Hugh McCulloch (1884-85)

László Moholy-Nagy – Composition A XXI (1925)

Daniel Manning (1885-87)

Robert Delaunay – Endless Rhythm [1934]

Charles S. Fairchild (1887-89)

Robert Delaunay – Rythme n°2 [1938]

William Windom (1889-91)

 Something from a book of pattern samples

Charles Foster (1891-93)

Beauford Delaney Untitled [1966]

John G. Carlisle (1893-97)

 Clyfford Still – PH-118 [1947]

Lyman J. Gage (1897-1902)

Walgreens wall

Connecticut Representative Charles A. Russell (1887-1902)

Damien Hirst – Veil of Mother's Tenderness [2017]

Virginia Senator John S. Barbour (1889-92)

Damien Hirst – M220/140 Skin Mole, LM_SPL.jpg [2015]

New Jersey Senator William J. Sewell (1881-87; 1895-1902)

Jason Martin – Mechocana [2006]

Missouri Representative James N. Burnes (1883-89)

Alexander Calder – Untitled [1962]

José Paranhos, Baron of Rio Branco (1845-1912)

Yayoi Kusama – My Life [2014]

Admiral David Glasgow Farragut (1801-1870)

Stanley Whitney – Untitled [2019]

New York Representative Francis B. Spinola (1887-91)

Damien Hirst – Tuberculosis [2003]

Li Hongzhang, Marquess Suyi (1823-1901)

Antoni Tàpies – Espiral (Spiral) [1979]

New York State Senator Francis S. Thayer (1868-71) 

Kimberly Conrad - Bladeworks #96 (2011)

Pennsylvania Representative Marriott Henry Brosius (1889-1901)

Fiona Rae – Untitled (pale blue) [1991]

Georgia Senator Alfred H. Colquitt (1883-94)

M.C. Escher Sky and Water I [1938]

General George Armstrong Custer (1839–76)

László Moholy-Nagy – Tilled Fields Painting [1921]

New York Governor Silas Wright Jr. (1845-46)

 Ralph Balson Painting no. 9 [1959]

President James K. Polk (1845-49)

Danielle Eben – Untitled [2022]

President Zachary Taylor (1849-50)

Robert Ryman – Untitled [1962]

President Millard Fillmore (1850-53)

Kinga Ogieglo – Grimaldi [2015]

President Franklin Pierce (1853-57)

Untitled

Presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln (1860)

Willem de Kooning – Excavation [1950]

West Virginia Senator John E. Kenna (1883-93) 

M.C. Escher (1967) – Fish, Poultry (№ 126)

Kentucky Representative Marcus C. Lisle (1893-94)

Pablo Rey – Estados Complementarios #17 [2005]