Artists Sessions At Studio 35 (1950)

In the late fall of 1948, three abstract painters, William Baziotes, Robert Motherwell, Mark Rothko and an abstract sculptor, David Hare, began a small cooperative school in Greenwich Village in New York city; somewhat later, they were joined by another abstract painter, Barnett Newman. In the interest of introducing the students to as wide an experience as possible, other advanced artists, one by one, were invited to speak to the students on Friday evenings. The Friday evenings were open to the general public and quickly became a physical place for everyone interested in advanced art in the US to meet; the audiences averaged about 150 persons, all that the loft on Eighth Street that housed the school could hold.