Here and there a Charles Burchfield or an Andrew Wyeth appears; there is a convulsed semi-abstraction by Larry Rivers, a grisly head by Leon Golub, a surrealist landscape by Kay .
Her winner was a highly colorful semi-abstraction called Circus Cyclists II, in which acrobatic cyclists, painted in green, loomed out of a circular composition bold with rich .
And it's probably true that her work in that vein helped inspire a lot of insipid suburban semi-abstraction in the years that followed.