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Charles Green Shaw, artist
American, 1892--1974
Geometric Abstraction, ca. 1937
oil on canvas
76.2 x 45.7 cm (30 x 18 in.)
Lent by The Harriet and Maurice Gregg Collection of American Abstract Art L05.13.4

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Artist Biography: 1914 graduate of Yale; 1927 enrolled in Thomas Hart Benton's class at the Art Students League in New York; He also studied privately with George Luks who became his friend. Prior to this, Shaw enjoyed a successful career as a free-lance writer for The New Yorker, Smart Set, and Vanity Fair, chronicling the life of the affluent theater and café society of the 1920s. Shaw, born into a wealthy New York family; founding member of the American Abstract Artists

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