Catalog for Christopher Clark Fine Art's 2022 Exhibition, "The Creative Impulse: Post War Art in America." The end of World War II ushered in a period of extraordinary creativity in art and a powerful shift to pure abstraction. Emerging from such a dark period, artists began to fully embrace the freedom of non-academic expression and to focus on the elements of pure line, form, and color. It was an exhilarating time in which the center of the artistic universe shifted from Paris to New York, and the syncopated rhythms of jazz seemed to infuse art with an energy that was uniquely American. We hope you will enjoy our visual exploration of this remarkable time.