{{Short description|American art critic and psychiatrist}} {{Notability|1=Biographies|date=January 2024}} '''Jules Langsner''' (1911{{mdash}}1967) was an American art critic and psychiatric social worker. Born in New York City in 1911 and died in 1967 in California. Although born in New York, Langsner he spent most of his years residing in California. He and his family moved to Ontario, California in 1922.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Biographical Note |url=https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/jules-langsner-papers-9117/biographical-note |access-date=2025-08-19 |website=Smithsonian Institution - Archives of American Art}}</ref>

==HardEdge Colorforms== Langsner has become associated with the term that he coined, along with Peter Selz, ''"hard-edge painting."'' <ref>http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt5v19r00h/ It was in 1959 that Langsner and art historian Peter Selz originated the phrase "hard-edge painting" to describe the colors, shapes and style of abstract expressionist painting on the West Coast.</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Hard-edge painting |url=https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/movement/hard-edge-painting |access-date=2025-08-19 |website=The Guggenheim Museums and Foundation |language=en-US}}</ref>

==References== {{reflist}}

* https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/01/31/philip-guston-mural-morelia-mexico-restored * Social Security death index. Accessed August 2, 2010. * [https://web.archive.org/web/20090121193318/http://the-artists.org/movement/Hard-Edge.html the-Artist.org]. Accessed January 17, 2009. * [http://www.kadishart.org/biojl.html Kadishart]{{dead link|date=April 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}. February 19, 2005. January 19, 2009. * Kleiner, Fred S. Mamiya, Christin J. Gardner's Art Through The Ages. Belmont Ca.: Thomson Higher Education, 2006.

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