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Balcomb Greene
American painter
Balcomb Greene (1904–1990) was an American artist and teacher.
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He and his wife, artist Gertrude Glass Greene, were heavily involved in political activism to promote mainstream acceptance of abstract art and were founding members of the American Abstract Artists organization.[1][2][3] His early style was completely non-objective.
Juan Gris and Piet Mondrian as well as Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse influenced his early style.[4] From the 1940s his work "opened out to the light and space of natural form." He painted landscapes and figure.
"He discerned the pain of a man, and hewed to it integrally from beginning to end…. In his study of the figure he did not stress anatomical shape but rather its intuitive, often conflicting spirit."[5]
Balcomb Greene contributed to modernist cause through his writings: "It is actually the artist, and only he, who is equipped for approaching the individual