This catalogue was published on the occasion of the exhibition "Abstraction, Geometry, Painting: Selected Geometric Abstract Painting in America Since 1945," on view at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery from September 17 to November 5, 1989. It also traveled to the Center for the Fine Arts in Miami, Milwaukee Art Museum, and Yale University Art Gallery.

This publication featured an essay by exhibition organizer and Chief Curator Michael Auping.