Jimmy Ernst (1920–1984) was born in Germany to the Surrealist painter Max Ernst and the art historian, Luise Straus. In 1938, he moved to the United States in order to escape the Nazi regime and acquired work at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, NY. Ernst was very involved within the art community of New York and in 1950 he joined the Irascibles group alongside fellow artists Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock. His work falls under both categories of Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism.

Paintings by Jimmy Ernst in Chronological Order:

Surreal V, 1940	Aeroflower, 1942	Paysage, 1942
Surreal, 1942	The Elements, 1942	Biological Discovery, 1944
Abstraction in Green and Black, 1946	See See Rider, 1946	Night Subway, 1948
Science Fiction, 1948	A Time for Fear, 1949	Synapse, 1950
UntitledxUntitled, 1950	White Space, 1951	Animals and Minerals, 1952
Lookscape, 1952	Dialogue II, 1954 , YEAR	Stillness, 1956
Untitled, 1957	Landscape with Pinetree, 1958	Southwest Image, 1958
Rimrock, 1960	Recollections and Silence, 1962	Silence at Sharpeville, 1962
Chronicle, 1964	Equations, 1965	Observation VII, 1965
untitled, 1965	Interior and Silence, 1967	Lumiere, 1968
Hieroglyphics, 1969	Moonscape, 1969	Mona Lisa Red, 1970
Oracle, 1971	Twice, 1972	Epilogue, 1974
Exile, 1974	Mona Lisa in Water, 1974	Terra Incognita #10, 1974
Mombosa, 1975	Silent Protest, 1976	Four Days, 1979
Dusklight, 1980	Signifiant Event Note, 1980	Sea of Grass, 1982
Sea of Grass, 1983