Robert Coates (writer)

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Robert Myron Coates (born April 6, 1897 in New Haven , Connecticut , † February 8, 1973 in New York City ) was an American writer and longtime art critic for the New Yorker . It is from him that the term Abstract Expressionism for the New York School's art movement comes from .

As an author of fictional prose, he is assigned to the group of the Lost Generation .

In 1958 he was accepted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters .

Works

  • The Eater of Darkness (Paris 1926; New York, 1929)
  • Yesterday's Burdens (1933)
  • The Bitter Season (1946)
  • Wisteria Cottage (1948)
  • The Farther Shore (1955)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Members: Robert M. Coates. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed February 22, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Coates, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Coates, Robert Myron
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer and art critic
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH New Haven , Connecticut
DATE OF DEATH February 8, 1973
Place of death New York City