31.   Few American artists have attained such dynamic poise between imagination and power.

32.   Few American artists have entered the New York art world at a better time or more prepared than Helen Frankenthaler.

33.   For generations, American artists heeded the call of Paris.

34.   From a White House ceremony honoring American artists, Clinton clambered aboard Air Force One on Sunday evening for an overnight flight to this Hungarian capital.

35.   Generations of American artists have traveled by subway from their Manhattan studios and lofts to spend time with them.

36.   He became one of the few living American artists whose prices hit stratospheric heights.

37.   Having previously concentrated on a mediocre roster of American artists, the gallery now seems to be turning its attention to Europe.

38.   He accumulated paintings by Dubuffet, Tapies, Alexander Calder and contemporary American artists.

39.   He also saw works by artists of the European postwar development known as Art Informel and by abstract American artists, finding de Kooning and Pollock especially attractive.

40.   He believed that modernism did not break definitively with the past but was on a continuum that included American artists.