A Daily Dose of Art: Ninth Street Women by Mary Gabriel
I’ve been reading and re-reading Ninth Street Women, Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement that Changed Modern Art, all summer. This morning, I listened to a few chapters on Joan Mitchell.
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"Gabriel delivers an immersive group biography of eclectic, free-spirited painters who shocked the art world in the 1940s and '50s with abstract expressionism... Through the lens of these women's lives, Gabriel delivers a sweeping history of abstract expressionism and the postwar New York School, and an affectionate tribute to the underappreciated women of America's avant-garde."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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Below is a video of author Mary Gabriel in conversation with Deborah Solomon.
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