After George Dunbar had exhibited his artwork in New York, where he had earned a certain reputation for his Abstract Expressionist and Minimalist canvases, he returned in 1955 to his native Louisiana. He quickly founded, with a group of like-minded artists, what would soon become the influential Orleans Gallery in New Orleans. In their small space on Royal Street in the French Quarter, Dunbar helped establish a venue for abstract art in a city suffused with antiques dealers.
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