This exceptional book on Mondrian s work concentrates on the artist s American period By birth a Dutchman Piet Mondrian arrived in New York in September 1940 He died there four years later A pioneer of abstract art he was like Wassily Kandinsky and Kasimir Malevich one of those Western painters remarkable as much for the work he produced as for his writings on the theory of art Mondrian s celebrity was affirmed immediately after his death when the first retrospective exhibition of his works given by the New York Museum of Modern Art in 1945 afforded him both global recognition and a place in history In this book containing than 400 reproductions Mondrian s oeuvre finds new life and a new opportunity as befits a master whom some would call the artist of his century Virginia Pitts Rembert through the skill of being able to pass on her own research and expertise reveals Mondrian s secret strengths both as an artist and as an innovator Piet Mondrian in the USA The Artist s Life and Work Temporis