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Paul Jenkins was an American abstract expressionist painter, creating in oil, acrylic and watercolor on canvas as well as sculptures mainly in New York and in Paris. When he had studied at the Art Students League of New York in the early 1950s, he met Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock and others, who inspired his work. Paul Jenkins was recognized early on by the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and by Peggy Guggenheim, who acquired his creations.

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Schiff, John: Portrait photograph of Paul Jenkins, Leo Baeck Institute, F DM 343 015.