Each group in the exhibition achieves this through their own distinct technique: the Abstract Classicists of Los Angeles worked in oil; the Washington Color School stained acrylic into their unprimed canvases; and the New York Op artists built up their acrylic on primed canvases. (dwigmore.com)
Comparisons to the renown Abstract Classicists of the midcentury are inevitable. (minusspace.com)
Four of these artists — Karl Benjamin, Lorser Feitelson, Frederick Hammersley, and John McLaughlin — gained prominence when they were featured in the 1959 exhibition Four Abstract Classicists at the Los Angeles Museum of Art (now the Los Angeles County Museum of Art) and the San Francisco Museum of Art (now the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art). (artsy.net)