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Heavily influenced by his studies in Paris in the early 1930s, Charles Green Shaw was an advocate for abstract art in America during a time when regionalism and figurative art held center stage. As a founding member of the American Abstract Artists (AAA), Shaw sought to infuse the American art scene with an avant-garde style inspired by European Modernism. He was also known as one of the "Park Avenue Cubists," a small cohort of wealthy abstract artists from New York, including Albert Gallatin, George L.K. Morris and Suzy Frelinghuysen, who modeled their works after artists such as Pablo Picasso, Juan Gris, George Braque and Fernand Léger. As seen here, Shaw developed his own individual approach combining Constructivist and Cubist principles into compelling experimentations with geometry and color.