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Article: "Nell Blaine, artist in the world: works from the 1950s" at Tibor de Nagy Gallery. March 22, 2003-April 26, 2003. (Exhibition notes).
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- New Criterion
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- May 1, 2003
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Nell Blaine (1922-1996) can tell a story through a remarkable economy of language. Her best work is lyrical, self-aware, in control, and inviting without the hints of self-indulgence that befell many in the New York School.
A native of Richmond, Virginia, Blaine began her career in New York as an abstract painter and the precocious student of Hans Hofmann. In 1944, at the age of twenty-one, she became the youngest member of the American Abstract Artists Group; her Mondrian-inspired, purely abstract paintings from the period remain well known and collected. She formed fast friendships with many artists on the scene, in particular those who were associated with the ...