While New York and the world were yet unfamiliar with the New York avant - garde by the late 1940s, most of the artists who have become
household names today had their well - established patron critics: Clement Greenberg advocated Jackson Pollock and the color field painters like Clyfford
Still, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Adolph Gottlieb and Hans Hofmann; Harold Rosenberg seemed to prefer the action painters
such as Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline, as well as the seminal paintings of Arshile Gorky; Thomas B. Hess, the managing editor of ARTnews, championed Willem de Kooning.
While Cosindas's career would fade from public view over the years, she went on to photograph
household names such as Yves Saint Laurent, Truman Capote, Coco Chanel, Robert Redford, Elsa Schiaparelli, and Peggy Guggenheim, and produced film
stills.