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Also Known As Morris Bernstein
Born November 24, 1912 • Baltimore • Maryland • (Birthday in 3 days)
Died September 7, 1962 (aged 49) • Washington, D.C. • United States
Movement / Style Abstract Expressionism

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Jackson Pollock
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Mark Rothko: Untitled (1954) and Yellow Band (1956)
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Elaine and Willem de Kooning
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Grace Hartigan
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Joan Mitchell
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Ethel Schwabacher
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Lee Krasner
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Lee Bontecou: Untitled
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Robert Irwin: Getty Center's Central Garden
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Motherwell, photograph by Arnold Newman, 1959
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Marca-Relli with one of his paintings
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Larry Rivers, photograph by Hans Namuth, 1965
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Twombly, Cy
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