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List of illustrations

  • #12
  • Score for a Bird
  • Transmutation
  • Untitled
  • Storm
  • Mountains and Sea
  • Red Abstraction
  • Installation of Ninth Street Show
  • Untitled
  • Poster of the Second Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture
  • Perle Fine
  • Collage, 256
  • Untitled
  • Nihilism
  • Dagger of Light
  • Helen Frankenthaler in her New York Studio
  • Joan Mitchell in her studio
  • Elaine and Willem de Kooning
  • Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner
  • Willem and Elaine de Kooning in his studio with a working version of Seated Man (Clown)
  • Seated Woman
  • Portrait of Elaine
  • Portrait of Willem de Kooning
  • Self-Portrait #3
  • The Glazier
  • Self-Portrait
  • Willem de Kooning
  • Bill Asleep
  • Paul Rosano Reclining
  • Untitled (Two Figures)
  • The Persian Jacket
  • Immaterial Forms
  • Colorspace #1
  • Ochre Red and Blue
  • June Painting #2
  • Untitled
  • Classroom at California School of Fine Arts
  • Zoo
  • Untitled
  • Deborah Remington with fellow co-founders of the Six Gallery
  • For H.M.
  • Bernice Bing in her North Beach studio, San Francisco
  • Two Plus
  • The Rose
  • The Eye is the First Circle
  • Listen
  • Sun Woman I
  • Lee Krasner in her Brooklyn studio
  • George Went Swimming at Barnes Hole, but It Got Too Cold
  • Oisin's Dream
  • Imrie
  • All Green
  • Torso
  • Untitled (Everest)
  • Incision
  • Abstraction
  • Bill
  • Bill at St. Mark's
  • Falling Man
  • Bullfight
  • Early Morning Garden
  • Summer I
  • Image d'Hiver
  • Untitled
  • Mountain Storm
  • Jacob's Ladder
  • Western Dream
  • Anna Karenina
  • Untitled #2
  • Children of Frejus
  • The Beginning
  • Woman
  • Martha Graham–Lamentation
  • Epic
  • The King is Dead
  • Portrait of W
  • The Massacre
  • Interior, "The Creeks"
  • New York City Rhapsody
  • Untitled
  • Gothic Frieze
  • Stretched Yellow
  • The Seasons
  • Cornucopia
  • Charred Landscape
  • What Beast Must I Adore?
  • Untitled
  • Number 12
  • Hudson River Day Line
  • East Ninth Street
  • Evenings on Seventy-Third Street
  • Cercando un Ago
  • Eleusian
  • Apropos or Untitled
  • Phunky or Dacia
  • Exodus
  • Dead Leaves or Autumn Leaves
  • Pennington I/Pelham II
  • Antigone I
  • Origins I
  • Perle Fine (facing the camera) in Hans Hofmann's Class, Provincetown, Massachusetts
  • Grace Hartigan at the Cedar Tavern, Greenwich Village, New York
  • Alex Matter (son of Mercedes and Herbert Matter), Mercedes Matter, Lee Krasner, and Jackson Pollock in Springs, New York
  • Janice Biala (background, left) and Hedda Sterne (background, right) alongside other artists in one of the “Artist Sessions at Studio 35,” New York
  • The group of American abstract artists labeled “The Irascibles,” New York
  • Grace Hartigan (left) and Helen Frankenthaler (right)
  • Sonia Gechtoff, Jay DeFeo, and Jim Kelly on New Year’s Eve
  • Charlotte Park, James Brooks, and Jackson Pollock, Montauk, New York
  • 23º North by 82º West
  • Gray and Orange
  • Alaska I
  • Joan Mitchell, Helen Frankenthaler, and Grace Hartigan (from left to right)at the opening of an exhibition of Frankenthaler’s paintings, New York
  • Artists in group discussion in the East Tenth Street studio of Milton Resnick
  • Elaine de Kooning
  • Mary Abbott in her studio
  • Ruth Abrams in her studio
  • Memory of My Mother
  • Ruth Armer
  • Untitled
  • Janice Biala in her studio
  • Beach
  • Bernice Bing in her North Beach studio, San Francisco
  • Two Plus
  • Joan Brown in her studio
  • Brambles
  • Jay DeFeo and The Rose
  • Elaine de Kooning working on a portrait of John F. Kennedy in her New York studio
  • Madeleine Dimond in Hassel Smith’s studio
  • Untitled
  • Amaranth Ehrenhalt in New York
  • Umatilla
  • Claire Falkenstein
  • Barcelona #2
  • Lilly Fenichel at the Giacomo Patri School of Art, San Francisco
  • Circus
  • Perle Fine working in her Springs, New York, studio
  • Helen Frankenthaler working in her New York studio
  • Sonia Gechtoff in her San Francisco studio
  • Judith Godwin at Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, with Moon
  • Shirley Goldfarb
  • Where Angels Got Lost and Then Left
  • Gertrude Greene
  • Composition II
  • Grace Hartigan posed beside one of her works in her Lower East Side studio, New York
  • Buffie Johnson putting the finishing touches on her Astor Theatre mural
  • The Bridge
  • Ida Kohlmeyer
  • Transverse
  • Lee Krasner in her studio in East Hampton, New York
  • Zoe Longfield
  • Untitled (Gray and Yellow Painting)
  • Mercedes Matter teaching
  • Tabletop Still Life
  • Joan Mitchell
  • Composition in Yellow
  • Charlotte Park in her Montauk, New York, Studio
  • Zachary
  • Betty Parsons
  • Untitled (7124)
  • Pat Passlof in her studio
  • Ionian
  • Vita Petersen
  • Untitled #18
  • Portrait of Lil
  • Resurrection
  • Deborah Remington as a student at the California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco
  • Anne Ryan
  • Small Red Collage
  • Ethel Schwabacher
  • Sonja Sekula in Northport, New York
  • The Burning Forest, detail
  • Janet Sobel
  • Untitled
  • Vivian Springford
  • Untitled
  • Hedda Sterne
  • No. 3–1957
  • Alma Thomas working in her studio
  • The Stormy Sea
  • Yvonne Thomas in her New York studio
  • Composition
  • Michael West
  • Road to the Sea
  • Jane Wilson at the Hansa Gallery in New York
  • Parade
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Description: Women of Abstract Expressionism
~Women of Abstract Expressionism, organized by the Denver Art Museum, is the first major museum exhibition to present the work of female painters who came of age artistically in the heady avant-garde milieu of late 1940s and 1950s America. These painters took full part in classes and exhibitions on both the East and West coasts within the circles of artists...
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~It is a pleasure to acknowledge the many people who contributed to Women of Abstract Expressionism.
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Description: Women of Abstract Expressionism
Elaine de Kooning’s description of process speaks to critic Harold Rosenberg’s legendary account of Abstract Expressionist painting: its genesis comes from an “event” and is a “result of this...
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Description: Women of Abstract Expressionism
Although art critics and historians have been writing about Abstract Expressionism for more than sixty years, most of the women involved continue to be marginalized. Many writers have refused to acknowledge that these women artists of the 1940s and 1950s could be innovators, and certain curators and critics have simply ignored them while continuing to focus attention on male members of the group....
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Description: Women of Abstract Expressionism
There they are, the de Koonings—New York’s art-world king and queen—preserved exactly as we’d like to remember them by photographer Hans Namuth in 1953 (fig. 18).As art dealer Leo Castelli put it, “Elaine and Bill de Kooning—this...
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There is a great irony that cleaves to any account of Abstract Expressionism in San Francisco, a paradox so simultaneously dire and delightful that it borders on black humor. That lover of dark comedy, the painter Hassel Smith, was probably the first to declare publicly that the essential feature of the San Francisco...
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Since critics and art historians have long thought that first-generation Abstract Expressionism, with the sole exception of Lee Krasner, was comprised of only men, there has been a concomitant tendency to regard this art as a singularly male...
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Before the interview began, Sandler mentioned that if he were choosing artists (now) for his first book, The Triumph of American Painting: A History of Abstract Expressionism, he would add five artists—one of them Lee Krasner.
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Catalogue of the Exhibition
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Lenders to the Exhibition
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Chronology: Jesse Laird Ortega
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Description: Women of Abstract Expressionism
Selected Biographies
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Index
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Contributors
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