So, here was something I could actually exploit and make my own, and make drawings as
big as abstract expressionism, and, using glass, make them objects with a heaviness, a weight.
The gallery continues, «In his essay for the exhibition catalogue, William Agee describes Hofmann
as going against the grain of the artistic canon of the day; «His art was too
big, too bold, to be encapsulated in a few years after 1945, the years we generally identify
as the heyday of
abstract expressionism.»