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Franz Kline Franz Kline
Franz Kline 1910-62, American painter, b. Wilkes-Barre, Pa. He studied (1937-38) in England, then settled in New York City. From the early 1950s, Kline exhibited large canvases of dynamically painted black-and-white grids. His works often recall Chinese calligraphy but he himself denied Asian... Read more
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New York School New York School
New York School. Term applied to the innovatory painters, especially the Abstract Expressionists, who worked in New York in the 1940s and 1950s and whose critical and financial success helped the city to replace Paris as the world's leading centre of avant-garde art. An exhibition staged by the Los... Read more
Bradley Walker Tomlin Bradley Walker Tomlin
Bradley Walker Tomlin 1899-1953, American painter, b. Syracuse, N.Y., grad. Syracuse Univ. (1921). He also studied painting in London and Paris. His early work includes cover designs for Vogue and House and Garden magazines. In the 1930s and 1940s he developed consistently toward abstraction.... Read more
Helen Frankenthaler Helen Frankenthaler
Helen Frankenthaler , 1928-, American painter, b. New York City. A painter of the abstract expressionist school (see abstract expressionism ), Frankenthaler was greatly influenced by Jackson Pollock , with whom she studied. In the early 1950s she developed a technique for staining unprimed... Read more
abstract expressionism abstract expressionism
abstract expressionism movement of abstract painting that emerged in New York City during the mid-1940s and attained singular prominence in American art in the following decade; also called action painting and the New York school. It was the first important school in American painting to declare... Read more
Louise Nevelson Louise Nevelson
Louise Nevelson 1900-1988, American sculptor, b. Kiev, Russia. Using odd pieces of wood, found objects, cast metal and other materials, Nevelson constructed huge walls or enclosed box arrangements of complex and rhythmic abstract shapes. These are covered entirely with black, white, or gold paint.... Read more
William Baziotes William Baziotes
William Baziotes , 1912-64, American painter, b. Pittsburgh. Baziotes's works of the 1940s and 50s are largely abstract images, usually with brooding, primitive qualities encompassed in rich and muted colors. He taught in New York City at several schools including the Brooklyn Museum Art School and... Read more
Agnes Martin Agnes Martin
Agnes Martin (Agnes Bernice Martin), 1912-2004, American painter, b. Macklin, Canada. She moved to the United States in 1931, became a U.S. citizen in 1950, and emerged as an important artist in the late 50s and early 60s. Martin is best known for her spare, abstract all-over grid paintings.... Read more
Walt Kuhn Walt Kuhn
Walt Kuhn 1880-1949, American painter, b. New York City. At the age of 19 he worked as a cartoonist in San Francisco, contributing later to Life magazine. After travel and study in Europe he devoted himself largely to oil painting. In 1913, in cooperation with his friend Arthur B. Davies, he was... Read more

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