the in crowd

 the intellecutal artists/writers of the Bloomsbury Group in early 19th century Britain

Group shot of Abstract Expressionist painters, known as "The Irascibles" ; taken in 1951 for LIFE magazine

 

front: Theodore Stamos, Jimmy Ernst, Barnett Newman, James Brooks, and Mark Rothko; middle: Richard Pousette-Dart, William Baziotes, Jackson Pollock, Clyfford Still, Robert Motherwell, and Bradley Walker Tomlin; back: Willem de Kooning, Adolph Gottlieb, Ad Reinhardt, and Hedda Sterne