Carolina Quotes..there is a real Dada strain in the minds of the New York School of abstract painters that has emerged in the last decade.
Robert Motherwell Connected to the Carolinas
Source
The Dada Painters and Poets, Schultz, Wittenborn, New York 1951, p. xiii
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- 1951
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“..there is a real Dada strain in the minds of the New York S…” Robert Motherwell. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-973CD7ED67. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/973cd7ed67
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