Andrew Lambirth

The European influence on modern American art

New York’s Atelier 17 became a creative hub in the 1940s, where émigré Surrealists shared ideas with artists such as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Robert Motherwell

‘Temptations of the Painter’, by Gordon Onslow Ford, 1941. [Collection and courtesy of the Lucid Art Foundation]
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