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In the late 1950s, Langsner and Peter Selz , then professor at the Claremont Colleges , observed a common link among the recent work of John McLaughlin , Lorser Feitelson , Karl Benjamin , Frederick Hammersley and Feitelson's wife Helen Lundeberg . The group of seven gathered at the Feitelson's home to discuss a group exhibition of this nonfigurative painting style. Curated by Langsner, "Four Abstract Classicists" opened at the Los Angeles County Museum Of Art in 1959. Helen Lundberg was not included in the exhibit. "Four Abstract Classicists" was subtitled "California Hard Edge" by British art critic and curator Lawrence Alloway when it traveled to England and Ireland. The term came into broader use after Alloway used it to describe contemporary American geometric abstract painting featuring "economy of form," "fullness of color," "neatness of surface," and the nonrelational arrangement of forms on the canvas. In 2000, Tobey C. Mos s curated "Four Abstract Classicists Plus One" at her gallery in Los Angeles. The exhibit again featured Feitelson, McLaughlin, Hammersley, and Benjamin, and added Lundeberg as the fifth of the original Hard-edge painters. This style of geometric abstraction recalls the earlier work of Josef Albers and Piet Mondrian . Other artists associated with Hard-edge painting include June Harwood , Al Held , Ellsworth Kelly , Alexander Liberman , Morris Louis , Brice Marden , Kenneth Noland , Ad Reinhardt , Frank Stella , Leon Polk Smith , and Jack Youngerman . REFERENCES
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