William Baziotes (1912–1963) American painter
Modern Art U.S.A., R. Blesh, New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1956, pp. 268-69
1950s
“His strongest tastes were negative. He abhorred plastics, Picasso, sunbathing and jazz — everything in fact that had happened in his own lifetime.”
Source: The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold (1957), Chapter 1
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