“At a time when experimentation expresses itself in all forms of life, search becomes the only valid expression of the spirit.”

— Mark Tobey

As quoted in Willem de Kooning, MOMA Bull, pp. 7, 6
1950's

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American abstract expressionist painter 1890–1976

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