Sam Adams Green becomes the Director of the ICA. The first exhibit under his directorship is 1943- 1953, the Decisive Years. January 14 - March 1, 1965.  The artists include Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell, Barnet Newman, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Clyfford Still. Barnet Newman secretly curated the exhibit (Forty Years at the ICA, p 14)