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Unlike many avant-garde artists of the New York school, the painters most centrally identified with the cool style in California don’t seem to have been trying to revolutionize their medium. An early label for the work of the four best-known practitioners — Karl Benjamin, Frederick Hammersley, Lorser Feitelson and John McLaughlin — was “abstract classicism,” which overstates their conservatism but highlights the formal equilibrium they sought.