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Coates’s review is a key terminology-history record: institutional and scholarly sources identify his 1946 review of Hans Hofmann as an early application of “Abstract Expressionism” to American painting. AEU stores that historical use without treating the label as an uncontested artist self-definition.

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Coates’s review is a key terminology-history record: institutional and scholarly sources identify his 1946 review of Hans Hofmann as an early application of “Abstract Expressionism” to American painting. AEU stores that historical use without treating the label as an uncontested artist self-definition.

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MoMA identifies Robert Coates’s 1946 review of Hans Hofmann as an early American use of the term Abstract Expressionism; a university dissertation supplies the March 30 bibliographic date.

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