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Gerome Kamrowski at Washburn.(painting exhibitions)

From: Art in America  |  Date: 4/1/2005  |  Author: Leffingwell, Edward

Born in Minnesota, Gerome Kamrowski (1914-2004) studied at the Art Students League in New York in 1933-34 and then at the New Bauhaus in Chicago. With the support of a Guggenheim Fellowship, he attended the Hans Hofmann School in Provincetown in 1938. His esthetic interests ran to European Surrealism, and with William Baziotes and Jackson Pollock he began to experiment with nontraditional ways of making art, including automatism. In 1941, he met Andre Breton, Max Ernst and others when ...

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