A Champion of Discarded Artists

Bram Dijkstra brings to light American Expressionism, 'great art with a social content'

By PETER MONAGHAN

Del Mar, Calif.

For more than 60 years, influential art critics have been completely wrong about American Expressionism, Bram Dijkstra insists.

The movement was marked by narrative works of emotional immediacy, and characterized by intense colors and other distortions....

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