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]