Word: kootz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DIED. Samuel M. Kootz, 83, foresighted art dealer and paladin of abstract expressionism in America; in New York City. Kootz helped to define the emerging school by showing such artists as Robert Motherwell, Hans Hofmann, Carl Holty, Fritz Glarner and Adolph Gottlieb. As a critic and author, Kootz griped about American artists who poured "their ideas into the same corny molds." By contrast, he wrote of the abstract expressionists' works: "Dramatically personal, each painting contains part of the artist's self, this revelation of himself in paint being a conscious revolt from our Puritan heritage...