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It will also offer a Dame Elisabeth Frink sculpture from the collection of British fashion designer Dame Mary Quant and work from early British Modernists including Ben Nicholson, Christopher Wood and Edward Wadsworth.

From BBC • Nov. 18, 2021

Her coverage of Modern architecture expanded in the 1950s, as a growing Northwest School of Modernists gave her ample projects to choose from.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 13, 2020

Modernists are famously haunted by a sense of anxiety and guilt.

From Slate • May 3, 2020

Later, other Modernists, such as Richard Neutra, Rodney Walker, Ray Kappe, and Craig Ellwood—a self-invented architect without a degree, who had been the cost estimator on the Eames House—built houses in the community.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 11, 2019

The Modernists themselves desire, for the most part, that criticism rather than philosophy should be regarded as the starting-point of the movement.

From Outspoken Essays by Inge, William Ralph