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(HAMMERSLEY, FREDERICK). Coke, Van Deren. Venice, CA: L.A. Louver Gallery, 1978. First Edition. Small Square 4to. Stapled Printed Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Fine.. np (12pp), 1 color and 2 b&w illustrations + b&w back cover. With an exhibition checklist, biography and exhibition history. This is the slender twelve page catalogue published in conjunction with a 1978 gallery exhibition of twenty abstract paintings executed during the seventies by Frederick Hammersley - who along with John McLaughlin, Karl Benjamin, and Lorser Feitelson comprised the "Four Abstract Classicists" featured in the ground-breaking 1959 Los Angeles County Museum of Art exhibition of the same name. A bright white, most handsome example of this uncommon item. Inventory Number: 024459