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Each core Washington Color School artist created and became identified with their initial motifs and techniques: Morris Louis with pours, columns and veils, Howard Mehring with overall blotting and layers of multiple colors, Gene Davis with stripes, Thomas Downing with dots, Kenneth Noland with the use of basic geometric shapes, and Gilliam initially with pouring into folded and draped unstretched canvas. Willem de Looper is identified by edge-to-edge overall staining into raw canvas. All the artists worked with unprimed canvas and acrylic paint, although some of the earliest works are in …