At Sears you could purchase contemporary art by leading Abstract Expressionists such as Robert Motherwell.

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In 1951 he helped set up the influential Ninth Street Show, which featured mainly abstract expressionists.

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It came to full fruition later, in the singing expanses of Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and other Abstract Expressionists.

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All of his colleagues found humor a useful tool to mock, deflate and overthrow the swaggering grandiosity of the Abstract Expressionists.

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The cross-sections of tissue from frogs, newts, slime mold, cockroaches and other organic matter are beautiful, like works of the Abstract Expressionists with which they are contemporaneous.

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Alexander Calder became one most recognized artists of the 20th Century, not through the Jungian explorations of the Abstract Expressionists or through the co-opting of everyday images of Pop Artists.

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Collectors of American Art don't consider Alice Neel part of the Ash Can School or the American Modernist School, and the glitzy works by Abstract Expressionists attract the Post-War collectors.

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