Richard Pousette-Dart; Abstract Expressionist

Richard Pousette-Dart, 76, a painter who belonged to the first generation of abstract expressionists. In the 1940s, Pousette-Dart joined the influential New York School, which included Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning. In 1951, Life magazine called the three “The Irascibles” in a tribute to their broad brush strokes and brilliantly colored paintings, although Pousette-Dart was considered a distinctive member of the school. His paintings are in the Whitney Museum of American Arts, the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum. In New York City on Sunday of colon cancer.