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The exhibition features fine abstract examples that similarly play off the grid as form and content, including by postwar artists as different from one another as Harmony Hammond, Yayoi Kusama, Agnes Martin, Lenore Tawney, Rosemarie Trockel and Jack Whitten.

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Across the United States, exhibitions focusing on artists’ relationships with each other — such as Henri Matisse and André Derain, and Toshiko Takaezu and Lenore Tawney — and to their subjects — like that of Il Guercino or John Singer Sargent — offer new avenues for audiences to explore their work and contemporary impact.

Tragedy is a recurring theme in her life, as Salma’s time on earth so far has been riddled with addiction and trauma, most notably, the unsolved murder of her famous sister, Tawney, 20 years ago.

The youngest of the artists who thrived there, she drew influences from its established members, in particular Ms. Martin, a celebrated painter who blended the hues of nature with Abstract Expressionism, and Lenore Tawney, a fiber artist known for her monumental sculptural weaving.