Ninth Street women

Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler : five painters and the movement that changed modern art

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Mary Gabriel: Ninth Street women (2018)

927 pages

English language

Published Oct. 30, 2018

ISBN:
978-0-316-22618-9
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OCLC Number:
1052553358

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"Set amid the most turbulent social and political period of modern times, Ninth Street Women is the impassioned, wild, sometimes tragic, always exhilarating chronicle of five women who dared to enter the male-dominated world of twentieth-century abstract painting–not as muses but as artists. From their cold-water lofts, where they worked, drank, fought, and loved, these pioneers burst open the door to the art world for themselves and countless others to come"--

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Subjects

  • Modern Art
  • Women artists
  • Abstract expressionism
  • Biography

Places

  • United States
  • New York (State)
  • New York