New York school

American  

noun

1. a loosely associated group of American and European artists and sculptors, especially abstract expressionist painters, active in and near New York City chiefly in the 1940s and 1950s.

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Example Sentences

David Shapiro, a cerebral yet deeply personal poet aligned with the so-called New York School, whose highly lyrical work balanced copious literary allusions with dreamlike imagery and intimate reflections drawn from family life, died on Saturday in the Bronx.

From New York Times

His book “You Are You: Writings and Interviews on Poetry, Art and the New York School” is scheduled to be published this fall.

From New York Times

The teenage Wolff astonished Cage when he first studied with him in the early 1950s, becoming the youngest and now final surviving member of Cage’s legendary New York School of composers.

From Los Angeles Times

The New York School shows up on page 165.

From Los Angeles Times

He is the last living representative of what’s known as the New York School of composition, a group that included John Cage, Morton Feldman, Earle Brown and David Tudor.

From New York Times