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MoMA places Composition 16 within its New York School framework while documenting Delaney’s move from New York to Paris and subsequent gestural abstraction.
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1901–1979
Modernist painter active in New York and later Paris whose gestural abstractions intersect the New York School without collapsing his broader portrait, color, and expatriate practice into one movement label.
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MoMA places Composition 16 within its New York School framework while documenting Delaney’s move from New York to Paris and subsequent gestural abstraction.
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