Jack Youngerman, Painter Who Was Central to 1950s New York Art Scene, Is Dead at 93

Jack Youngerman, whose innovative paintings pushed abstraction in new directions in 1950s New York, has died at 93. The New York Times, which first reported the news, said he died of complications related to a fall.
Working in the years after Abstract Expressionism first took hold, Youngerman began crafting abstractions that resembled blooms of color or explosions. At the time he was making them, he and his colleagues, among them Ellsworth Kelly and Frank Stella, were sorting through formalist i