William Johnstone was the UK's first Abstract  Expressionist painter, years ahead of anyone else                      and one of the first internationally.
           [Ben Nicholson only started painting his 
                        hard-edge abstracts in 1933]
            This book includes most of his greatest                          abstract oil paintings from 1923 to 1980

             The Hayward Gallery mounted a major                       retrospective exhibition of his work in 1981

 The paintings on the front and back cover of this                book were painted in 1947, the year art          historians tell us Abstract Expressionism started
    and they are as good as anything created by any                     other artist working at the time