A student of Nell Blaine, Hans Hofmann and William Baziotes, Anne Tabachnick (1927-1995) referred to herself as a "Second Generation New York School painter." This mini-retrospective suggests that, for her, this label implied an effort to reconcile the pure painterly abstraction she learned under Hofmann's tutelage with an evocation of the visible world. Her paintings contain echoes of Matisse, Cezanne, Bonnard and Gauguin, but the tension between abstraction and representation is ...