Antedating of "Abstract Expressionism"

[Fred Shapiro]

abstract expressionism (OED 1952)

1936 _Parnassus_ Apr. 28  The fourth floor is devoted to the
non-geometrical abstract stuff: ... the movement, "abstract
expressionism", from Gauguin to Kandinsky.

Fred Shapiro


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