The American Abstract Artists General Prospectus was issued in New York, formalizing an artists' organization devoted to abstract art at a time when American galleries and museums offered little support for nonrepresentational work. The group had decided earlier in January to create American Abstract Artists, and the prospectus gave the new association its program: unite abstract painters and sculptors, bring their work before the public, foster appreciation, and create exhibition opportunities. Its early membership included artists working through Cubist, geometric, biomorphic, and Neoplastic idioms, with women artists such as Gertrude Greene, Alice Mason, Rosalind Bengelsdorf, and Esphyr Slobodkina central to its organization. The first AAA exhibition followed that year at Squibb Gallery, becoming a major non-museum presentation of American abstraction in the 1930s.
AAA helped build a public and institutional platform for American abstraction before Abstract Expressionism became dominant.
