Article: Bay Area bravura. (post-war Abstract Expressionism, various artists, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California)

For the last decade interest in abstract Expressionism has seemed stultified by the era's big egos, gigantic canvases and oversized spiritual claims. Now from left field - or rather from the left coast - comes an exhibition that reinvigorates our sense of late-1940s painting. "The San Francisco School of Abstract Expressionism," curated by Susan Landauer for the Laguna Art Museum and currently at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art [through Sept. 29], traces the development of a fascinating group of artists who were working at the same time as the denizens of the Cedar Bar. Painters with already solid reputations such as Ronald Bladen Edward Corbett, Hassel Smith and ...

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