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For now, though, it feels like something fresh, a handoff from the Modernists of the early 20th century to the authors of the early 21st.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 20, 2022

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

This we have made abundantly clear by quotations from the Modernists themselves.

From Outspoken Essays by Inge, William Ralph