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Article: TRADITIONAL BOSTON EXPRESSIONISM ON VIEW.(Show)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- August 3, 1986
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Byline: Joanne Silver
It's no coincidence that modern art didn't take hold in Boston until after World War II. In a city as entrenched as Boston, previous upheavals wre artistically smoothed over or ignored. As World War I was fought, William Paxton painted aristocratic beauties busying themselves in genteel interiors.
At that point, some of Boston's first wave of modern artists were children in the Jewish quarters of Eastern European cities. By the 1940s, they would be Bostonians, searching for a way to express in art their reaction to being human in an inhuman time.
Hyman Bloom, Jack Levine and Karl Zerbe started a tradition of expressionism ...