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With "Between Tachisme and Abstract Expressionism: Bluhm, Francis, Jenkins," Hollis Taggart Galleries will present a selection of works by Postwar painters Norman Bluhm, Sam Francis, and Paul Jenkins that illustrates their function as a bridge between the avant-garde movements in New York and Paris. All three artists spent most of the 1950s together in Paris, bringing with them the gesturalism of the New York School. Into this they incorporated the luminous light that is characteristic of French art, beginning with the early modernisms of the Impressionists and Symbolists and up to …