JENKINS Paul

Paul JENKINS, born 12 July 1923 in Kansas City, Missouri, and died 9 June 2012 in New York, is an American painter and writer of the 20th and 21st century, classified for convenience in the Lyric Abstraction movements, or abstract Expressionism while, according to Frank Anderson Trappnote: "One of these artists that would be difficult to describe in these terms, despite the reciprocity of influences between Europe and America during contemporary evolution. According to Jean Cassou, if you have to put a label on him, that of an informal artist would suit him better.