books.google.ca - In 1953 eleven Canadian Abstract Expressionist artists banded together to break through the barricades of traditional art at a time when landscapes were about the only paintings collectors were buying. Hungry for recognition, raging against the art establishment that was shutting them out, they decided...http://books.google.ca/books/about/P11_Painters_Eleven.html?id=rgvrHdQ_iXEC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareP11, Painters Eleven