她于50 年代中后期搬到纽约,在Hunter College 的 Robert Motherwell 和 Hans Hofmann 的指导学习艺术,在他们的指导下,她对抽象表现主义产生了兴趣。她使用自由笔触创作充满活力的绘画的倾向受到霍夫曼和亨利·马蒂斯作品的影响。 [7][8]Hofmann还引入了构图受颜色影响的概念,他称之为“推拉”概念。 [6]
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^Year: 1940; Census Place: Raleigh Terrace, Elizabeth City, Virginia; Roll: T627_4259; Page: 19A; Enumeration District: 28-22. United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.
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