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Cummings Modernist Painter and Poet
E. E. Cummings: Modernist Painter and Poet Author(s): Milton A. Cohen Source: Smithsonian Studies in American Art, Vol. 4, No. 2 (Spring, 1990), pp. 54-74 Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Smithsonian American Art Museum Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3108985 . Accessed: 05/04/2011 17:57
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E.E.Cummings
Modenist Painterand Poet

Milton A. Cohen

As painters took down their canvases after the huge 1919 exhibition of the Society of Independent Artistsin New York, one young artist eagerly wrote to his parents of his success: You may be glad to know that Gleizes(the 'first cubist"-probably the most individual,though somewhat

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