Early Life and Education Gerome Kamrowski (January 29, 1914 – March 27, 2004) was an American visual artist and pioneer in the surrealist and abstract expressionist Movements in the United States. Born in Warren, Minnesota, he embarked on his artistic journey in 1932 at Saint Paul School of Art (now Minnesota Museum of American Art - MMAA), where he studied alongside Leroy Turner and Cameron Booth—all former students of Hans Hofmann who were also associated with the Abstraction-Création group in Paris. It was from these peers that Kamrowski was introduced to a “kind of expressionist cubism.”…