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Modernism swept across the world in the early 20th Century. The Europeans, with their own group of pioneering artists, were creating ground breaking work.

The Americans, who were going through an immense shift of huge industrial change, immigration pouring into NYC and music exploding with stimulating Jazz, had their own group of artists creating work, abandoning local colours for objects and replacing them with colour revealing states of feeling and inner reactions to the subject.

These artists inherited attitudes of modesty towards their accomplishments shared by the American painters …