Lawrence Kupferman

Years later he recalled, "Being a short, homely Jewish kid in a predominantly Irish-Catholic, snobby town, I admit, I was a lonely, misunderstood, introverted boy.

In the late 1920s he studied drawing under Philip Leslie Hale at the Museum School (an experience he called "stultifying and repressive").

[2] Kupferman held various jobs while pursuing a career as an artist, including two years as a security guard at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

In 1946 he began spending summers in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where he met and was influenced by Mark Rothko, Hans Hofmannn,[2] Jackson Pollock, and other abstract painters.

The poorly written statement, intended to distinguish Boston's art scene from that of New York, was widely perceived as an attack on modernism.

[7] Kupferman chaired the meeting and read a statement to the press: The recent manifesto of the Institute is a fatuous declaration which misinforms and misleads the public concerning the integrity and intention of the modern artist.

By arrogating to itself the privilege of telling the artists what art should be the Institute runs counter to the original purposes of this organization whose function was to encourage and to assimilate contemporary innovation.