Joseph Drapell

At the Cranbrook Academy he met visiting Canadian artist Jack Bush and the American art critic Clement Greenberg.

[2] He moved permanently to Toronto in 1970 and during the period from 1972 through 1974, in Toronto, he developed a technique of applying paint with a broad spreading device attached to a movable support having also been influenced by the American painter Morris Louis.

[2] The core of this group is from the United States: it has two Canadian members: Drapell and Graham Peacock from Edmonton.

[2] Drapell and his wife, the poet Anna Maclachlan, founded the first Museum of New New Painting in 1998 devoted to exhibiting New New art.

[2] One writer calls it everything meretriculous and impure,[2] but admits Drapell can produce impressive effects, often based on a Georgian Bay retreat bought in 1971.