Clement Greenberg, the art critic at the New York Times, introduced the world to the “Washington Color School”. The Washington Color School was a combination of color field abstraction, and hard-line abstraction painters. A couple of these artists started a new tradition of putting paint directly on unprimed canvases, that created stained looking canvases. Alice Mostoff lived most of her life within minutes of Washington, DC, and was not listed as part of the Color School, however numerous artists were influenced by the emerging styles that came from the School. She was not included in the school partly because Mostoff arrived to late to be part of that art movement. A retrospective review of Mostoff’s work has similarities to noted Washington artists such as Willem de Looper, American University instructor Robert Franklin Gates, and National Gallery print expert Jacob Kainen. These three men were also outliers of the Washington Color School, but they sat on the edge of this com