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Joan Marter (Editor)
Description: Women of Abstract Expressionism
Women of Abstract Expressionism
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Joan Marter (Editor)
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Illustrations and figures are indicated by “f” following page numbers; artworks are under names of artists.
Abbott, Mary, 11, 70
biography, 162
collaboration with Barbara Guest, 15, 160, 162
photograph of, 162f
in Stable Gallery: Third Annual, 157
Fourth Annual, 158
Sixth Annual, 160
in The Club, 154, 162
training of, 154, 162
travels of, 154, 158, 162
artwork by: All Green, 14, 75
Bill’s Painting, 162
Imrie, 74
Oisin’s Dream, 14, 73
Virgin Islands series, 14
Abrams, Ruth
biography of, 163
photograph of, 163f
in Stable Gallery: Fifth Annual, 158
Sixth Annual, 160
artwork by: Conversation series, 163
Great Mother series, 163
Memory of My Mother, 163f
Microcosms series, 163
Travel series, 163
Abstract and Surrealist American Art (1947), 174
Abstract and Surrealist Art in America (1944), 169, 183, 185
Abstract Expressionism
demise of, 33–34
gender bias in, 10, 18, 21, 28, 28n3, 28n4, 42, 58, 154, 161, 176
genesis of, 10, 18
Greenberg on, 17
as “male” domain. See maleness and machismo
terminology for, in San Francisco, 56n30
women’s recognition in and contribution to, 10, 17, 18, 21, 28, 49, 69
Abstract and Surrealist Art in the United States (1944), 43
Abstract Expressionism: The Formative Years (1978), 22, 183
Abstract Expressionism: Second to None: Six Artists of the New York School (2001), 161n1, 201
Abstract Impressionism, 62, 63
Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America (1951), 179, 194
Académie de La Grande Chaumière (Paris), 189
Académie Julian (Paris), 181
ACA Galleries (New York), 163
Action/Abstraction (2008), 17n2
Action 1, Santa Monica Pier (1955), 168, 170, 176
Action Painting, 30, 34, 38, 68, 156, 160
Aden, Alonzo J., 200
African Americans, 24, 28, 153, 154, 200
Albers, Josef, 154, 169, 190
Alechinsky, Pierre, 198
Alloway, Lawrence, 36
American Abstract Artists, 18, 69, 174, 179, 183, 185
American Abstract Expressionists and Imagists (1961), 180, 186
American Abstract Sculptors and Painters in Paris (1956), 178
American Academy of Arts and Letters, Award of Merit for Painting, 190
American Academy of Dramatic Arts, 178
American and French Paintings (1942), 183
American Artists Union, 179
American Drawings, Watercolors, and Prints (1952), 187
American Impressionism, 62
American Painting Today—1950, 44, 155, 164
American Primitive Painting of Four Centuries (1943), 197
American Transcendentalism, 61
American University (Washington, D.C.), 200
Anderson, Jeremy, 184
Anita Shapolsky Gallery (New York), 171, 177, 181, 201
Betty Parsons and the Women (2005), 177
Women of the ’50s (1995), 188
Annuals (Stable Gallery). See Stable Gallery Annuals
Appel, Karel, 198
Archipenko, Alexander, 45, 163, 172, 185
Armer, Ruth, 43–44, 56, 56n5, 56n10
biography of, 164
photograph of, 164f
artwork by: Immaterial Forms, 43f, 44
Untitled, 164f
Art Academy of Cincinnati, 202
Art Autre, 172
Art Informel, 178, 202
Art Institute of Chicago, 186
Abstract and Surrealist American Art (1947), 174
Artists Club. See The Club
“Artist Sessions at Studio 35” symposium (1950), 155, 155f, 165
Artists: Man and Wife (1949), 183, 185
ARTnews
“The American Action Painters” article (Rosenberg, 1952), 156
Elaine de Kooning at, 154, 168
Greene’s solo exhibition review (Holliday, 1951), 156
“Hans Hofmann Paints a Picture” article (E. de Kooning, 1950), 154
“Man and Wife” article (Munson, 1949), 21
“Mitchell Paints a Picture” article (Sandler, 1957), 25, 63, 160
“Subject: What, How or Who?” article (E. de Kooning, 1955), 62
The Art of Assemblage (1961), 174, 194
Art of This Century Gallery (New York), 153, 174, 189
Exhibition by 31 Women (1943), 153, 181, 196, 199
Exhibition of Collage (1943), 199
Spring Salon for Young Artists (1943), 196, 199
The Women (1945), 153, 196, 197, 199
Arts Club of Chicago, 197
Art Students League (New York), 154, 156, 162, 163, 164, 165, 170, 174, 177, 178, 181, 183, 185, 195, 196, 198, 201, 202
Ashbery, John, 68, 186
Ashton, Dore, 161
Aspen (Colorado), 201
Astor Theatre (New York), 181, 181f
Atelier 17 (New York), 18, 23, 174, 194
Atelier 17 (Paris), 181
Atlanta University, Eighth Annual Exhibition of Paintings, Sculptures and Prints by Negro Artists (1949), 154
Auerbach, Ellen Rosenberg, 31–33, 32f, 40n9, 40n12
Auerbach, Walter, 31–32
Austin, J. L.: How to Do Things with Words, 66n7
Avery, Milton, 202
Barnes Foundation (Merion, Pennsylvania), 171
Barnet, Will, 177
Barnett-Aden Gallery (Washington, D.C.), 153, 200
Barr, Alfred, 28, 42–43, 70, 165, 179
Batman Gallery (San Francisco)
Bing solo exhibition (1960), 166
Gangbang show (1960–61), 53, 57n39, 166
Bauhaus, 45, 49, 172, 187
Baur, John I. H., 22, 167
Bay Area. See San Francisco
Bay Area School, 173
Baziotes, William, 154
photograph of, 155f
Bearden, Romare, 28
Beat Generation, 49, 51
Bellows, George, 164
Bennington College (Vermont), 175, 189
Nine Women Painters (1953), 174
Berezov, Maurice, 22f, 62f, 153f, 174, 188f
Berkeley School, 184
Berlin, 28, 31
Berlin Academy, 191
Bertha Schaefer Gallery (New York), 179
Betty Parsons and the Women (2005), 177
Betty Parsons Gallery (New York), 14, 17n4, 22, 28n3, 68, 69, 154, 155, 177f, 180, 181, 189, 191, 194, 199
Hedda Sterne: Paintings (1947), 154
Paintings 1951: Lee Krasner, 156, 183
Section Eleven, 177, 189
Biala, Janice, 40n14, 155, 157
biography of, 165
photographs of, 155f, 165f
in Stable Gallery: Third Annual, 157
Fourth Annual, 158
Fifth Annual, 158
artwork by: Beach, 165f
Bignou Gallery (Paris), 165
Bing, Bernice, 53, 56, 57n41
biography of, 166
photographs of, 54f, 166f
artwork by: Two Plus, 53, 54f, 166f
Las Meninas, 166
Bischoff, Elmer, 51, 166, 167, 169, 173, 176, 187, 193
Black Mountain College (Asheville, North Carolina), 40n15, 153, 154, 168, 190
Blaine, Nell, 29n19, 160
Bollingen Foundation, 181
Bonestell Gallery (New York), 172
Bouché, René, 40n4
Bourdelle, Émile-Antoine, 189
Bourgeois, Louise, 24
Brancusi, Constantin, 165
Brandt, Mortimer, 189
Bredin, Hugh, 58
Breton, André, 196, 199
bridal imagery, 180
Briggs, Ernest, 170, 176, 184
Brook, Alexander, 163
Brooks, James, 70, 154, 155f, 177, 188
photograph of, 157f
Brooks, Romaine, 189
Brown, Joan, 17n4, 51, 53, 157
and Bing, 166
biography of, 167
and DeFeo, 168
photograph of, 167f
and Remington, 193
shared studio with Dimond, 170
artwork by: Brambles, 167f
Zoo, 50f, 51
Brown, William H., 167
Browne, Byron, 24, 29n16
Browner, Juliet, 36
Brussels World’s Fair (1958), 53, 57n46, 176
Brustlein, Daniel, 40n14, 165
Budd, David, 177
Buddhism, 53, 166, 177, 202
bullfights, 15, 33, 153, 161, 169
Burchfield, Charles, 65
Burckhardt, Rudy, 31, 33, 186f
Burke, James, 160f
Butler, Judith
Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of “Sex,” 66n7
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, 66n7
Butor, Michel, 178
Café au Go Go (New York), 192
Cage, John, 190
Calder, Alexander, 189
California College of Arts and Crafts, 53, 166
California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 43, 45
California School of Fine Arts (CSFA; now San Francisco Art Institute), 43, 45, 46, 48, 49, 49f, 51, 53, 154, 158, 164, 166, 167, 170, 172, 173, 176, 184, 187, 193, 193f
calligraphy, 53, 55, 166, 183, 193, 196, 198, 202
Campbell, Jewett, 177
Canaday, John, 38n2
Carlebach, Julius, 154
Carles, Arthur B., 185
Carlson Gallery (San Francisco), 173
Cassatt, Mary, 25
Castelli, Leo, 38n1, 155, 169
Cavallon, Giorgio, 163
Cedar Street Bar/Tavern (New York), 14, 20, 68, 153, 153f, 154, 155, 162, 178, 185
The Cellar (San Francisco), 166, 167
Cézanne, Paul, 62
C. Grimaldis Gallery (Baltimore), 180
Charles, Ezzard, 68–69
Chelsea (New York), 32
Cherry, Herman, 68–69
China, 53, 166
Chinatown (San Francisco), 49, 53, 184
Chouinard Art Institute (Los Angeles), 45, 173
Chryssa, 189
Cohantz, W., 184
Cohen, John, 153f
Cold War, 23, 56n23
collage, 23, 165, 183, 188, 192, 194, 199
College Art Association
Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement, 186
Women’s Caucus for Art, 181
College Arts Traveling Service (Washington, D.C.), Contemporary American Paintings (1958), 160
Color Field paintings, 28, 63, 65, 175
Columbia University (New York), 203
Columbia University Teachers College, 200
Conner, Bruce, 55, 57n39, 166
Constructivism, 179
Contemporary American Paintings (1958), 160
Cooper Union (New York), 193, 201
Corbett, Edward, 45, 48, 51, 154, 170, 173, 187, 193
Corcoran Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.), 163, 182, 200
Corcoran School of Art (Washington, D.C.), 162
Cordoba, Mercedes de, 185
Cranbrook Academy of Art (Bloomfield Hills, Michigan), 190
Crehan, Hubert, 161, 184
CSFA. See California School of Fine Arts
Cubism, 23, 33, 45, 46, 175, 179, 183, 188, 202
Cubism and Abstract Art, 179
Cummings, Paul, 40n12
Cunningham, Merce, 154, 169, 190
Dadaists, 23, 192
Dalí, Salvador, 69
Dalton School (New York), 153, 175
D’Arcy Galleries (New York), An Exhibition of Small Paintings (1962), 163
David Findlay Jr. Fine Art (New York), Twelve New York Painters (2006), 162
David Richard Gallery (Santa Fe), 173
David Stuart Galleries (Los Angeles), 167
Davis School, 51
Day, Elizabeth Nottingham, 177
Day, Horace, 177
DC Moore Gallery (New York), 203
Dean, Loomis, 27f
de Dienes, André, 196f
DeFeo, Jay, 11, 42, 44, 49, 53–56, 57n39, 57n48, 166, 167, 170, 193
biography of, 168
experimentation with materials, 15, 55
iconic status of, 55
in MoMA’s Sixteen Americans exhibition (1959), 161, 168
Mountain series, 14, 77
photographs of, 156f, 168f
and Six Gallery, 158, 168
and Whitney Museum, 55, 168
artwork by: Doctor Jazz, 55
The Eyes, 55
Florence series, 55
Incision, 14, 79
The Rose, 44, 49, 55, 55f, 168, 168f
Torso, 76
Untitled (Everest), 77
de Kooning, Cornelia, 40n3
de Kooning, Elaine
at ARTnews, 62, 154, 168
and Biala, 165
bias against, 21, 25
biography of, 169
at Black Mountain College, 154, 169, 190
death of, 38
and figuration, 24, 70
first solo exhibition (1954), 169
gyroscope (or faceless) men, 35, 41n27, 41n37, 169
initial meeting of Willem, 40n13, 169
marriage to Willem (1943), 14–15, 153, 168
in New Talent 1950, 155
and Ninth Street Show, 18, 20, 155
photographs of, 31–32f, 160–61f, 169f
portraiture and models, 30–38, 169
on process, 10
Sandler on, 70
in 60 American Painters, 1960 (Walker Art Center), 161
in Stable Gallery: Second Annual, 157
Third Annual, 157
Fourth Annual, 158
Fifth Annual, 158
Sixth Annual, 160
“Subject: What, How or Who?” 62
in The Club, 154
at University of New Mexico, 161
artwork by: Abstraction, 80
Bill, 81
Bill Asleep, 36, 36f
Bill at St. Mark’s, 35, 82
Black Mountain series, 28, 68, 154, 169
Bullfight, 15, 33, 68, 84–85, 169
Faceless Men series. See gyroscope men
Falling Man, 83
Juarez series, 15, 33, 161
Portrait of Willem de Kooning, 33, 33f
Self-Portraits, 34–35f
Willem de Kooning, 35, 35f
de Kooning, Willem, 30–38
and Abbott, 162
admiration for Ingres and Le Nain brothers, 40n12
and Biala, 165
and Bing, 166
at Black Mountain College, 153, 154, 169, 190
and Brown, 167
Elaine’s initial meeting, 40n13, 169
and figuration, 24
and Fine, 174
and Frankenthaler, 175
at Stable Gallery Annual, 23
and Hartigan, 180
illness and death of, 38
influence of, 21, 25, 28, 29n6, 53, 69, 153, 162, 166, 167, 175, 180
marriage to Elaine (1943), 15, 153, 168
Mitchell compared to, 28
and Passlof, 154, 190
photographs of, 31f, 155f
portraiture and models, 30–38
self-assertion of, 60
signature images of, 61
and The Club, 154
in WPA, 153
in Younger American Painters (1954), 53
artwork by: Excavation, 18
The Glazier, 34, 34f, 40n19
Portrait of Elaine, 33, 33f
Seated Man (Clown), 32, 32f
Seated Woman, 32, 32f
Untitled (Two Figures), 37, 37f
Woman I, 37, 41n30
Woman series, 30, 31f, 37, 38–40n3, 70, 155
Delaunay, Sonia, 171, 181
Delson-Richter Gallery (Jerusalem), 163
Denby, Edwin, 31–32, 33
Derrida, Jacques, 62
DeVree, Howard, 198
Dickinson, Edwin, 165
Diebenkorn, Richard, 46, 53, 70, 166, 187
Dilexi Gallery (San Francisco), 168, 193
Dimond, Madeleine, 45, 49, 51, 56, 154, 157, 193
biography of, 170
comic strips and, 51
photograph of, 170f
artwork by: Untitled (c. 1950–52), 51, 51f
Untitled (1950), 170f
di Suvero, Mark, 69
Dixon, James Budd, 176, 187, 193
Documenta II (1959), 175
Dodd, Lois, 69, 70
Dove, Arthur, 65
Drummond, Sally Hazelet, 69
Dubin Gallery (Philadelphia), 53
Duchamp, Marcel, 196, 199
Dugmore, Edward, 184
Duncan, Michael, 55
Duncan, Robert, 157
Dupin, Amantine-Lucile-Aurore. See Sand, George
East and West Gallery (San Francisco, 1950s), 176, 193
Nine Painters (1955), 170
East Hampton (New York), 18, 22, 24, 38, 63, 155, 168, 181, 183f, 188. See also Springs (New York)
East-West Gallery of Fine Arts (San Francisco, 1920s–30s), Falkenstein solo exhibition (1930), 45, 172
Ebony, David, 154
Eckstein, Claire, 31
École du Pacifique, 172
Egan, Charles, 68
Ehrenhalt, Amaranth
biography of, 171
photograph of, 171f
artwork by: Umatilla, 171f
Eighth Annual Exhibition of Paintings, Sculptures and Prints by Negro Artists (1949), 154
Eighth Street (New York), 18, 188
Eighth Street Club (New York). See The Club
80 Washington Square East Galleries (New York), 162
Eliot, George, 17n3, 155
11th Exposition du Salon des Surindépendents (Paris), 199
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
“Circles,” 61, 66n15
“Nature,” 61
Ernst, Jimmy, 155f
Ernst, Max, 178, 196
Esther Stuttman Gallery (New York), 161, 191, 201
Evans, Mary Ann. See Eliot, George
Exhibition by 31 Women (1943), 153, 181, 196, 199
Exhibition of Collage (1943), 199
Falkenstein, Claire, 43, 44, 45, 56, 56n5, 167
biography of, 172
photograph of, 172f
artwork by: Barcelona #2, 45, 172f
Colorspace #1, 44f, 45
“Topological Image Transducers,” 45
Fantastic Art, Dada, and Surrealism, 43
Fauvism, 33
Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors, 179
Feeley, Paul, 175
feminism, 68, 160, 192
Fenichel, Lilly, 49, 157, 170, 193
biography of, 173
photograph of, 173f
artwork by: Circus, 173f
Ochre Red and Blue, 45–46, 46f
Fernandez, Jesse, 190f
Ferus Gallery (Los Angeles), 14, 49, 53, 158, 161, 176
Objects on the New Landscape Demanding of the Eye (1957), 168, 176
Fifteen Unknowns (1950), 175
figuration, 21, 24, 70, 167, 197, 199
Fillmore Street (San Francisco), 53, 55, 157, 168, 170, 176, 193
Fine, Perle, 11, 25, 28
and Betty Parsons Gallery, 189
biography of, 22, 174
in Nature in Abstraction (1958), 160
and Ninth Street Show, 18, 20, 22, 155
photographs of, 22f, 153f, 174f
Sandler on, 24, 69, 70
solo show of (1945), 153
in Stable Gallery: Second Annual, 157
Third Annual, 157
Fourth Annual, 158
Fifth Annual, 158
Sixth Annual, 160
in The Club, 154, 174
training of, 153
in The Women (1945), 153
artwork by: Early Morning Garden, 14, 87
Image d’Hiver, 89
Summer I, 14, 22, 88 Fischbach Gallery (New York), 203
Flack, Audrey, 17n4
Ford, Ford Maddox, 165
France, 15, 24, 158, 171. See also Paris
Francis, Sam, 171, 178, 198
Frankenstein, Alfred, 48, 53
Frankenthaler, Helen, 11, 21, 23, 25, 28, 38, 58–65
and Abrams, 163
biography of, 175
Color Field paintings, 63, 65, 175
experimentation with materials, 15, 175
first solo show (1956), 158, 159f
in Life article “Women Artists in Ascendance” (1957), 29n19, 160
in Nature in Abstraction (1958), 160
and Ninth Street Show, 18, 155
photographs of, 26f, 156f, 159f, 175f
retrospective (1960), 161
Sandler on, 68
in 60 American Painters, 1960 (Walker Art Center), 161
in Stable Gallery: Second Annual, 157
Third Annual, 157
Fourth Annual, 158
Fifth Annual, 158
in The Club, 154
training of, 153, 154, 175, 188
artwork by: Jacob’s Ladder, 14, 94
Mountains and Sea, 14, 16f, 65, 156, 175
Mountain Storm, 14, 93
Untitled, 91
Western Dream, 95
Freilicher, Jane, 21, 70, 203
French Impressionism, 62
Fried, Elaine Marie Catherine, 33, 153. See also de Kooning, Elaine
Friedman, B. H., 61
Fuller, Buckminster, 154, 169, 190
Funk ceramic sculpture, 51
Galerie Arnaud (Paris), American Abstract Sculptors and Painters in Paris (1956), 178
Galerie Maeght (Paris), Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme, 196
Gangbang show (1960–61), 53, 57n39, 166
Gates, Robert, 200
Gechtoff, Ethel, 176
Gechtoff, Sonia, 11, 15, 49, 53–55
biography of, 176
and Brown, 167, 176
at Brussels World’s Fair (1958), 53, 57n46, 176
and DeFeo, 168, 176
and Dimond, 170
first solo exhibition (1957), 158
in King Ubu Gallery show (1953), 157, 176
marriage to James Kelly, 157, 176
move to East Coast (1958), 53, 57n48, 157, 176
move to West Coast (1951), 156
photographs of, 156f, 176f
and Remington, 193
Sandler on, 70
and Six Gallery, 158, 176
in 60 American Painters, 1960 (Walker Art Center), 161
in Younger American Painters (1954), 176
artwork by: Anna Karenina, 15, 97
The Beginning, 14, 53, 103
Children of Frejus, 15, 100–101
Love at High Noon, 57n46
Mountain, 57n43
Mountains, 53
Mystery of the Hunt, 53
These Foolish Things, 57n42
Untitled #2, 99
gender bias, 10, 18, 21, 28, 28n3, 28n4, 42, 154, 161, 176
Georgette Passedoit Gallery (New York), 165, 195
gestural abstraction, 22, 24, 28, 34, 38, 165, 168, 173, 177, 178, 179
Getz, Dave, 168
Giacometti, Alberto, 178, 189
Gibson, Ann Eden, 29n6, 38, 42
Gilligan, Carol, 59
Gimbutas, Marija, 181
Ginsberg, Allen: “Howl,” 51, 158, 193
Glinn, Burt, 159f
Gloucester, Massachusetts, 185
Godwin, Judith, 11, 14, 154
and Betty Parsons Gallery, 189
biography of, 177
photograph of, 177f
relationship with Martha Graham, 15, 156, 177
training of, 153, 177
artwork by: Epic, 107
Martha Graham—Lamentation, 15, 105
Moon, 177f
Woman, 15, 104 Goldberg, Michael, 25, 68, 70
Goldfarb, Shirley, 154, 157
biography of, 178
Carnets: Montparnasse, 1971–1980 (writings), 178
photograph of, 178f
artwork by: Storm, 14, 15f
Where Angels Got Lost and Then Left, 178f
Goldthwaite, Anne, 162
Goldwater, Robert, 190
Goodnough, Robert, 156, 165
Goodrich, Lloyd, 167
Gorky, Arshile, 23, 25, 33, 40nn12–13, 53, 56n5, 195, 202
Gottlieb, Adolph, 23, 29n6, 153, 175, 180, 189, 202
photograph of, 155f
artwork by: Bursts, 61
Gould, Joe, 36
Goya, Jorge, 157, 184
Grace Borgenicht Gallery (New York), 156, 179
Graham, John, 163
Graham, Martha, 15, 154, 156
Graham Gallery (New York), 169, 174, 185, 203
Grand Central School of Art (New York), 174
Great Depression, 33, 59
Great Jones Gallery (New York), 198
Greenberg, Clement, 17, 19, 21, 24, 155, 175, 197
Greene, Gertrude (Peter pseud.), 69, 154, 156
biography of, 179
photograph of, 179f
in Stable Gallery: Third Annual, 157
Fourth Annual, 158
artwork by: Composition, 179
Composition II, 179f
Gray and Orange, 158f
Greene, John Wesley (Balcomb), 156, 179
Greenwich Village, 18, 21, 23, 153, 163. See also Ninth Street Show
Grohmann, Will, 28
Grosz, George, 154, 162, 170, 196
Gruen, John, 38n3, 203
Gruenbaum Gallery (New York), 176
Guest, Barbara, 15, 160, 162
Guggenheim, Peggy, 42–43, 153, 181, 189, 196, 197, 199. See also Art of This Century Gallery (New York)
Guggenheim Foundation fellowships, 174, 190
Guggenheim Museum (New York). See Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York)
Guild Hall Museum (East Hampton, New York), 169, 174, 181, 188, 203
Guston, Philip, 25, 28, 69, 70, 168
Haley, John, 184
Hansa Gallery (New York), 203, 203f
Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts (New York), 153, 174, 183, 191. See also Hofmann, Hans
Hare, David, 69, 154, 162, 196
Harrison, Wallace, 154, 163, 175, 188
Hartigan, Grace, 11, 28, 186
on Abstract Expressionism panel, 21
biography of, 180
at Brussels World’s Fair (1958), 53
collaboration with Barbara Guest, 15, 160, 162
and figuration, 24
influences on, 28
in Life article “Women Artists in Ascendance” (1957), 25, 29n19, 160
marriage to Harry Jackson, 154
in MoMA exhibitions (1956, 1958), 21, 160, 180
move to New York, 153
name “George” used by, 17n3, 69, 180
in New Talent 1950, 155
and Ninth Street Show, 18, 155
photographs of, 153f, 156f, 159f, 180f
portraits by, 38
Sandler on, 68–70
series of “place” paintings, 14
in 60 American Painters, 1960 (Walker Art Center), 161
solo shows of (1951 & 1954), 155, 157
in Stable Gallery: Second Annual, 157
Third Annual, 157
Fourth Annual, 158
Fifth Annual, 158
Sixth Annual, 160
in The Club, 154
artwork by: Interior, “The Creeks,” 28, 114
Ireland, 14
The King is Dead, 15, 109
The Massacre, 11
Matador series, 180
New York City Rhapsody, 115
Oranges series, 180
The Persian Jacket, 38, 39f
Portrait of W, 14, 111
Hasegawa, Saburo, 53, 166
Hawthorne, Charles, 165
Hayter, Stanley William, 43, 45, 56n7, 174, 181, 194
Hazelet, Sally, 70. See also Drummond, Sally Hazelet
Hedrick, Wally, 42, 51, 53, 55, 57n39, 156f, 166, 167, 168, 193
photograph of, 51f
Heick, William, 49f
Held, Al, 69
Helena Rubinstein’s New Art Center (New York), Masters of Abstract Art (1942), 179
Henri, Robert, 164
Herms, George, 57n39
Herriman, George, 51
Herring, James V., 200
Hess, Thomas, 35, 38, 40n12, 168, 169
Abstract Painting (publication), 21
High Museum (Atlanta), 182
Hockney, David, 178
Hofer, Carl, 191
Hoffberger School of Painting (Maryland Institute College of Art), 180
Hoffman, Miriam, 49
Hofmann, Hans, 14, 17n4, 18, 23, 33, 48, 56n5, 70, 153, 154, 163, 177, 189, 202. See also Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts
Art Students League classes by, 185, 202
in Gloucester, Massachusetts, 185
summer school (Provincetown), 153, 153f, 174, 175, 177, 182, 192, 201
Hofstra University (Hempstead, New York), 174
Holliday, Betty, 156
Hollis Taggart Galleries (New York), 17n4
Hooton, Bruce Duff, 41n27
Hopps, Walter, 53, 170
Action 1, Santa Monica Pier (1955), 168, 170, 176
Housley, Kathleen, 24
Howard, Richard, 61
Howard, Scott Alexander: “Lyrical Emotions and Sentimentality,” 65
Howard University (Washington, D.C.), 200
Howell, Douglass, 194
Huberich, William, 184
Hunter College (New York), 169
Huntington, Anna Hyatt, 195
Impressionism, 62, 63
India, 158, 193
Ingber Gallery (New York), 177
Ingres, Jean-Auguste-Dominique, 40n12
Odalisque in Grisaille (attrib.), 36
Ippolito, Angelo, 160f
“The Irascibles” group photo (1951), 155, 155f, 199
Jackson, Harlan, 173
Jackson, Harry, 154
Jacobus, Harry, 157
Jacques Seligmann (New York), 175
Jaffe, Lenore, 70
Jaffe, Shirley, 171
Jake Zeitlin Gallery (Los Angeles), 181
Janis, Sidney, 43, 183, 197
Abstract and Surrealist Art in America (book), 197
Japan, 53, 158, 166, 193
Japanese internment, 46, 187
Jefferson, Jack, 184
Jervis, Ida, 200f
Jess [Collins], 157
Jewish Museum (New York), 161, 169
Action/Abstraction (2008), 17n2
The New York School: Second Generation (1957), 169, 175, 180, 186
Johns, Jasper, 70
Johnson, Buffie, 153, 155, 157
and Betty Parsons Gallery, 189
biography of, 181
Lady of the Beasts: Ancient Images of the Goddess and Her Sacred Animals (publication), 157, 181
photograph of, 181f
artwork by: The Bridge, 181f
Jones, Lois Mailou, 200
Judson Gallery (New York), 192
Juilliard School (New York), 178
Jung, Carl, 157, 163
Kahlo, Frida, 31
Kahn, Wolf, 70
Kainen, Jacob, 200
Kandinsky, Wassily, 65
Kantor, Morris, 162, 196
Katz, Alex, 70
Kaufmann Art Gallery (New York), 51, 170
From San Francisco: A New Language in Painting (1954), 170
Kelly, Ellsworth, 189
Kelly, James, 53, 157, 176
photograph of, 156f
Kennedy, John F., 31
Kent, Adaline, 189
Kepes, György, 45, 172
King, Hayward, 51, 51f, 193
King Ubu Gallery (San Francisco), 14, 49, 51–53, 157, 158, 170, 173, 176, 193
Kittay, Eva Feder, 66n4
Klee, Paul, 196
Kline, Franz, 23, 25, 28, 53, 70, 153, 166, 177
Koch, Kenneth, 162
Kohlmeyer, Ida, 153
biography of, 182
photograph of, 182f
artwork by: Transverse, 182f
Koizumi, Kiyo, 184
Kootz, Sam, 28n3, 155
Kootz Gallery (New York), 21
Fifteen Unknowns (1950), 175
New Talent 1950, 154, 155, 169, 180
Kornblee Gallery (New York), 162
Poetry and Painting (1959), 162
Kramer, Hilton, 62, 63
Krasner, Lee, 11, 18, 21, 30, 58–65
arrest of (1936), 153
and Betty Parsons Gallery, 189
bias against, 21, 25
biography of, 183
destruction of works and creation of collages, 156, 183
and figuration, 24
first solo exhibition (1951), 156, 183
friendships of, 154, 185
influences on, 153
marriage to Jackson Pollock (1945), 153, 183
at Mortimer Brandt Gallery, 197
and Ninth Street Show, 155
photographs of, 31f, 62f, 154f, 183f
portraits by, 38
relationship with Pollock, 21
Sandler on, 68–70
signature of, 61
in Stable Gallery: Fourth Annual, 158
Fifth Annual, 158
Sixth Annual, 160
training of, 33, 153, 183
on women’s liberation, 160
in WPA Federal Art Project, 59, 69, 153, 183
artwork by: Charred Landscape, 14, 125
Cornucopia, 123
Earth Green series, 61, 183
The Eye is the First Circle, 59f, 61
Gothic Frieze, 117
Listen, 60f, 61–62
Little Image series, 28, 34, 183
The Seasons, 14, 61, 120–21
Stretched Yellow, 119
Sun Woman I, 61, 61f
Sun Woman II, 61
Umber series, 60–61, 183
Untitled, 116
What Beast Must I Adore?, 15, 127
Kraushaar Galleries (New York), 176
“Krazy Kat” cartoons (Herriman), 51
Kuhlman, Walter, 45
Kuniyoshi, Yasuo, 163
Lacan, Jacques, 60
Landis, Adelie, 49, 170
Landmark Gallery (New York), 163, 181
landscapes, 25, 63, 169, 195
Las Meninas (Velázquez), 166
Lassaw, Ibram, 28n4
Laurent, Robert, 195
Lee, Francis, 202
Leen, Nina, 155f, 199
Léger, Fernand, 185, 199
Leja, Michael, 30–31, 38, 40n4
Leonardo da Vinci Art School (New York), 169, 179
Leslie, Alfred, 68, 69
Levy, Julien, 57n40
Lewis, Norman, 24, 28, 29n16
Liebermann, Max, 191
Life magazine
“The Irascibles” group photo (1951), 155, 155f, 199
“Women Artists in Ascendance” article (1957), 25, 29n19, 70, 159, 203
Lissitzky, El, 179
Little Paris Studio (Washington, D.C.), 200
Lobdell, Frank, 45, 166, 167, 176
photograph of, 49f
Longfield, Zoe, 48–49
biography of, 184
photographs of, 49f, 184f
artwork by: Untitled, 48, 48f
Untitled (Gray and Yellow Painting), 184f
Look magazine (1960), 167
Loran, Erle, 184
Loretta Howard Gallery (New York), 178
Los Angeles City College, 173
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), 199
Lee Krasner (1999), 66n15
Louis, Morris, 68, 175
Lutz-Bergerson Gallery (Taos), 173
lyrical abstraction, 63–65, 67n37
MacAgy, Douglas, 43, 45, 49
MacAgy, Jermayne, 42–43
Large Scale Drawings by Modern Artists, 45
MacIver, Loren, 25
maleness and machismo, 10, 22, 24, 30–31, 38, 42, 45, 49, 58, 69
Mandelman, Beatrice, 173
Man Ray, 178
March Gallery (New York), 69, 161, 190
Marisa del Re Gallery (New York), 177
Mark Borghi Fine Art (New York), 191
Marquie Gallery (New York), 194
Martha Jackson Gallery (New York), 180, 192, 200
Martin, Agnes, 17n4, 177, 189
Martin, Fred, 166
Martin, Peter, 170
Mary Baldwin College (Staunton, Virginia), 177
Marymount Manhattan College (New York), 163
Masters of Abstract Art (1942), 179
Masurovsky, Gregory, 178
Matta, Patricia, 201
Matta, Roberto, 43, 56n7, 196
Matter, Alex, 154f
Matter, Herbert, 35, 154, 154f, 185
Matter, Mercedes Carles, 33, 35, 191, 202
biography of, 153, 185
photographs of, 154f, 185f
in Springs (New York), 154
in Stable Gallery: Second Annual, 157
Fourth Annual, 158
in The Club, 154, 185
training of, 153, 185
artwork by: Tabletop Still Life, 185f
Matus, Jill, 59, 60
May, Rollo, 41n27
McClure, Michael, 53, 55, 57n39, 168, 176
McCormick Gallery (Chicago), 162, 198, 201
Abstract Expressionism: Second to None: Six Artists of the New York School (2001), 201
McKibben, Bill: The End of Nature, 65
McMillen Gallery (New York), American and French Paintings (1942), 183
McNay Art Museum, 177
Memorial Art Gallery (Rochester, New York), 202
Mendelssohn, Moses, 191
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice: The Phenomenology of Perception, 67n27
Metart Galleries (San Francisco), 49, 56n32, 184
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 23, 36, 199
American Drawings, Watercolors, and Prints (1952), 187
American Painting Today—1950, 44, 155, 164
The Prismatic Eye: Collages by Anne Ryan, 1948–1954 (2010), 194
Mexico, 33, 153, 154, 155, 161, 196
M. H. de Young Memorial Museum (San Francisco), 53, 174, 176
Midtown Galleries (New York), 189
Miles, Jeanne, 189
Mili, Gijon, 199f
Miller, Dorothy, 161, 168
Miller, Henry, 45
Miller, Kenneth Hayes, 202
Mills, Clark, 160
Mills College (Oakland, California), 168, 172, 187
Mint Museum (Charlotte, North Carolina), 182
Mitchell, Joan, 11, 28, 38, 58–65, 178
on Abstract Expressionism panel, 21
biography of, 186
and Ehrenhalt, 171
experimentation with materials, 15
and gender bias, 154
in Life article “Women Artists in Ascendance” (1957), 25, 29n19, 160
methods of, 24
in Nature in Abstraction (1958), 160
and Ninth Street Show, 18, 20, 155
photographs of, 27f, 159f, 186f
Sandler on, 25–28, 68–70, 160
in 60 American Painters, 1960 (Walker Art Center), 161
in Stable Gallery: Second Annual, 157
Third Annual, 157
Fourth Annual, 158
Fifth Annual, 158
Sixth Annual, 160
in The Club, 154, 155
training of, 153
travels to France, 153, 155, 158, 186
artwork by: Bridge, 63, 160
Cercando un Ago, 135
East Ninth Street, 14, 133
Evenings on Seventy-Third Street, 134
George Went Swimming at Barnes Hole, but It Got Too Cold, 63, 64f, 160
Hemlock, 160, 186
Hudson River Day Line, 14, 132
Ladybug, 186
Number 12, 131
Untitled, 20f, 129
Mitchell, Marion Strobel, 186
modernism, 33, 45, 62, 202
Moholy-Nagy, László, 45, 172, 187
MoMA. See Museum of Modern Art
Mondrian, Piet, 23, 24, 174, 179, 188, 199
Victory Boogie-Woogie, 22, 174
Monet, Claude, 62, 63
monochromes, 46, 55, 183
Montauk (New York), 157, 179, 188, 188f
Montgomery Street Skylight exhibition (1940), 43
Morley, Grace McCann, 42, 43, 45, 56n5, 56n7
Morris Museum of Art (Augusta, Georgia), 182
Mortimer Brandt Gallery (New York), 197, 199
Motherwell, Robert, 23, 29n6, 43, 44, 56n5, 68, 153, 154, 165, 166, 175, 196, 201
Modern Artists in America (edited with Reinhardt), 44, 164
photograph of, 155f
signature images of, 61
in Younger American Painters (1954), 53
Mundt, Ernest, 49
Munich School of Fine Arts, 191
Muse, Isaac Lane, 180
Museum of Fine Arts (Caracas), 163
Museum of Living Art (New York University), 179
Museum of Modern Art, New York (MoMA), 22, 30, 38, 42–43, 62, 70, 158, 169, 173, 175, 203
Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America (1951), 179, 194
The Art of Assemblage (1961), 174, 194
Cubism and Abstract Art, 179
Fantastic Art, Dada, and Surrealism, 43
and gender bias, 21
Hartigan in collection of, 29n25, 38
Krasner retrospective (1983), 183
Mitchell in collection of, 186
The New American Painting (1958), 21, 28, 70, 160, 180
New Talent (1955–57), 203
Recent Drawings U.S.A. (1956), 158
Rothko retrospective (1961), 203
Ryan in collection of, 23
Sixteen Americans (1959), 161, 168
Twelve Americans (1956), 180
Wilson in collection of, 203
Museum of Non-Objective Painting (now Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum), 179
Myers, John Bernard, 169
mythology, 14, 163, 195
Nakano, Emiko, 46
biography of, 187
artwork by: Composition in Yellow, 187f
June Painting #2, 46, 47f
Untitled, 46
Namuth, Hans, 30, 31, 31f, 37, 38, 39n3, 157f
National Academy of Design, 165, 183, 195, 203
Native American art, 24, 196
nature, as theme, 14, 22, 28, 53, 60, 62–65, 176
Nature in Abstraction (1958), 22, 160, 174, 175, 186, 195
Neel, Alice, 36, 37
Neo-Plasticism, 22, 23, 24, 46, 174, 179, 188
Neri, Manuel, 53, 57n39, 166, 167
Nevelson, Louise, 167, 168, 202
The New American Painting (1958), 21, 28, 70, 160, 180
Newcomb College, Tulane University (New Orleans), 182
New Gallery (Taos), 173
Newman, Barnett, 21, 28n3, 29n6, 60, 61, 68, 154, 155f, 162, 189
New Mexico, 173, 196
New Mission Gallery (San Francisco), 166
New Orleans Museum of Art, 182
New Talent (1955–57), 203
New Talent 1950, 154, 155, 169, 180
New York. See specific neighborhoods, streets, addresses, schools, and galleries
New York Abstract Expressionism, 178
New Yorker Bookshop, 170
New York Cultural Center, Women Choose Women (1973), 181
New York School, 14, 25, 28, 42, 43, 51, 53, 56n5, 56n30, 62, 70, 162, 165, 175, 198
The New York School: Second Generation (1957), 169, 175, 180, 186
New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture, 185, 191
New York University, 193
Museum of Living Art, 179
Nicolaides, Kimon, 174
Nine Painters (1955), 170
Nine Women Painters (1953), 174
Ninth Street Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture (Ninth Street Show), 14, 18–20, 19f, 22, 155, 186, 194
Committee of Artists, 18, 20
Noguchi, Isamu, 202
Noland, Kenneth, 175
Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of American Art (Logan, Utah), 55
Norlyst Gallery (New York), 197
North Beach, San Francisco, 54f
nudes, 35–37
Nyehaus Gallery (New York), 176
Oakland Museum of California, 167
Objects on the New Landscape Demanding of the Eye (1957), 168, 176
odalisques, 35–37
O’Hara, Frank, 41n28, 68, 162, 169, 180, 186
Okada, Kenzo, 177
O’Keeffe, Georgia, 25, 35, 65, 167
Old Master drawing, 33
Oliveira, Nathan, 53, 166, 167
Onslow-Ford, Gordon, 43, 56n7
Orozco, José Clemente, 153
Ossorio, Alfonso, 42, 189
Otis Art Institute (Los Angeles, now Otis College of Art and Design), 193
Ozenfant School of Fine Arts (New York), 201
Paalen, Wolfgang, 43, 56n7
“Painterland” (Fillmore Street, San Francisco), 53
Palm Springs Desert Museum (now Palm Springs Art Museum), 172
Paris, 25, 56, 165, 171, 172, 178, 179, 181, 186, 189, 199
Paris Biennale, 175
Park, Charlotte, 11, 153, 154, 157, 163
biography of, 188
first solo exhibition (1957), 160
at MoMA, 158
photographs of, 157f, 188f
in Stable Gallery: Third Annual, 157
Fourth Annual, 158
Fifth Annual, 158
Sixth Annual, 160
artwork by: #12, 11f
Zachary, 188f
Park, David, 173, 193
Parks, Gordon, 26f, 180f
Parrish Art Museum (Southampton, New York), 188
Parsons, Betty, 22, 28n3, 154, 181, 199. See also Betty Parsons Gallery (New York)
biography of, 189
photograph of, 189f
artwork by: Untitled (7124), 189f
Parsons Gallery. See Betty Parsons Gallery
Pasadena City College, 51
Passlof, Pat, 11, 69, 154, 161
biography of, 190
photograph of, 190f
in Stable Gallery Sixth Annual, 160
in The Club, 154, 190
artwork by: Eighth House series, 190
Ionian, 190f
Score for a Bird, 12f, 190f
Pavia, Philip, 162, 163
Pearlstein, Philip, 70
Peggy Guggenheim Collection (Venice), 172
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 171
Pereira, Irene Rice, 163
Peridot Gallery (New York), 69, 185, 188, 191
Perrault, John, 37
Peter and Madeleine Martin Foundation for the Creative Arts, 170
Petersen, Gustav, 191
Petersen, Vita, 11
biography of, 191
photograph of, 191f
in Stable Gallery Third Annual, 157
Peterson, Margaret, 184
Peterson, Valerie, 41n37
Philadelphia College of Art. See Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art
Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art (now University of the Arts, Philadelphia), 53, 176, 185, 193
Picabia, Francis, 181
Picard, Fritz, 192
Picard, Lil
biography of, 192
photograph of, 192f
artwork by: The Bed (public happening), 192
Construction-Destruction-Construction (Vietnam War protest), 192
Resurrection, 192f
Picasso, Pablo, 15, 38, 62
Pinacotheca Gallery (New York), 23, 194, 202
Pippin, William, 194f
The Place (San Francisco), 55
poetry, 14, 53, 160, 162, 176, 180, 186
Poetry and Painting (1959), 162
Poets Choose Painters (1955), 162
Poggioli, Renato, 45
Poindexter Gallery (New York), 53, 56, 69, 176
Pollak, Theresa, 177
Pollock, Jackson, 18, 21, 29n6, 30, 56n5, 68, 69
and Betty Parsons Gallery, 189
death of, 21, 24, 61, 69
and figuration, 70
and Frankenthaler, 156, 175
friendships of, 154
and Goldfarb, 178
and Hartigan, 180
“I am nature,” 14, 60
influence of, 23, 156, 180, 202
and Krasner’s work, 156, 183
marriage to Lee Krasner (1945), 153, 183
and Matter, 185
method of, 22, 24, 34
at Mortimer Brandt Gallery, 197
nationalism of, 24
with Newman to discuss Parsons Gallery, 28n3
in Ninth Street Show, 19
photographs of, 31f, 154–55f, 157f
price of works of, 24
relationship with Krasner, 21
Ryan’s response to methods of, 23
signature images of, 61
and Sobel, 197
and West, 23, 202
in Younger American Painters (1954), 53
artwork by: One: Number 31, 1950, 30, 31f
Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center (East Hampton, New York), 24
Charlotte Park: The 1950s (2013), 188
Pop Art, 33–34, 176
Porter, Aline, 189
Porter, Fairfield, 63, 70, 203
portraits, by de Koonings, 30–38, 169
Post-Painterly Abstraction, 175. See also Color Field paintings
Pound, Ezra, 165, 189
Pousette-Dart, Richard, 23, 60, 195f, 202
photograph of, 155f
Preston Gallery (New York), 198
Price, Winston, 180
Princeton University Art Museum, 195
The Prismatic Eye: Collages by Anne Ryan, 1948–1954 (2010), 194
Progressive Art Workers (PAW), 51
Provincetown, Massachusetts, 153, 153f, 165, 174, 175, 177, 182, 192, 201
Puma Gallery (New York), 197
Putzel, Howard, 183
Rambova, Natacha, 181
Randall, Helen, 63
Rauschenberg, Robert, 70
Reaves, Wendy Wicks, 40n20
Rebay, Hilla, 174, 179
Recent Drawings U.S.A. (1956), 158
Reiff, Robert, 67n37
Reinhardt, Ad, 29n6, 44, 164, 189
photograph of, 155f
Remington, Deborah, 11, 45, 49, 51–53, 56
biography of, 193
photographs of, 51f, 193f
Sandler on, 70
and Six Gallery, 158, 170
solo show and two-person show with Jorge Goya (1953), 157
training of, 154, 158
artwork by: 23º North by 82º West, 158f
Apropos or Untitled, 139
A Cool Kitty on a Hot Tin Roof, 53
Early Adelphi series, 193
Eleusian, 137
Exodus, 143
Fast Company, 53
For H. M., 52f, 53
Gopher Baroque, 53
Phunky or Dacia, 141
Resnick, Milton, 160f, 163, 168, 190
Richards, M. C., 154, 190
Richmond Professional Institute (now Virginia Commonwealth University), 177
Rickey, George, 182
Rimbaud, Arthur, 15
Riopelle, Jean-Paul, 24, 158, 178, 186
Rivera, Diego, 31
Rivers, Larry, 41n28, 162, 203
Robinson, Brooks, 68
Robson, A. Deirdre, 24
Rochester Art Club (New York), 202
Rodewald, Douglas, 203f
Romanovsky, Dimitri, 201
Romanticism, 63
Rose, Barbara, 160
Rose Fried Gallery (New York), 162, 194, 201, 202
Rosenberg, Harold, 10, 22, 35, 38, 67n27, 156, 165, 169, 198
Rosset, Barney, 155, 186
Rothko, Mark, 23, 29n6, 45, 48, 56n5, 60, 61, 68, 69, 153, 154, 162
at Betty Parsons Gallery, 189
and Frankenthaler, 175
and Hartigan, 180
and Kohlmeyer, 182
and Longfield, 184
MoMA retrospective (1961), 203
with Newman to discuss Parsons Gallery, 28n3
photograph of, 155f
signature images of, 61
and West, 202
Ryan, Anne
and Betty Parsons Gallery, 156, 189
biography of, 22–23, 194
and Krasner, 156, 183
and Ninth Street Show, 155
photograph of, 194f
The Prismatic Eye: Collages by Anne Ryan, 1948–1954 (2010), 194
artwork by: Collage, 23f
Small Red Collage, 194f
Untitled, 23f
Ryan, John Allen, 51, 51f, 193
Sacco, Marty, 168f
St. Basil Catholic Church (Los Angeles), 172
Salon des Réalités Nouvelles (Paris), 171, 172, 174, 178
Samuel Kootz Gallery (New York). See Kootz Gallery (New York)
Sand, George, 17n3, 69, 155
Sanders, Ludwig, 160f
Sandler, Irving, 24, 25–28, 29n16, 62
interview with (2013), 68–70
“Mitchell Paints a Picture” article (1957), 160
A Sweeper-Up after Artists, 25
The Triumph of American Painting: A History of Abstract Expressionism, 68, 70
San Francisco, 42–56, 167, 193
San Francisco Art Institute. See California School of Fine Arts (CSFA)
San Francisco Museum of Art (now San Francisco Museum of Modern Art), 42–43, 164, 187, 193
Abstract and Surrealist Art in the United States (1944), 43
Falkenstein solo exhibition (1948), 172
Seventy-Second Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association (1953), 170
San Francisco School, 42, 45, 46, 55, 56
San Francisco State College, 193
São Paulo Bienal, Brazil, 175, 176, 180, 187
Sarah Lawrence College (Bronxville, New York), 196
Schapiro, Meyer, 21, 155
Schapiro, Miriam, 17n4
School of Paris, 165
Schuyler, James, 68, 203
Schwabacher, Ethel, 11, 14–15, 155
and Betty Parsons Gallery, 189
biography of, 195
Hungry for Light (journal), 161n14
in Nature in Abstraction (1958), 160
photograph of, 195f
in 60 American Painters, 1960 (Walker Art Center), 161
in Stable Gallery Fourth Annual, 158
artwork by: Antigone I, 15, 148–49
Dead Leaves or Autumn Leaves, 14, 145, 160
Origins I, 151
Pennington I/Pelham II, 15, 147
Women series, 155
Schwitters, Kurt, 23, 194
Seckler, Dorothy, 155
Section Eleven, 177, 189
Sekula, Sonja, 153, 181
and Betty Parsons Gallery, 189
biography of, 196f
and Ninth Street Show, 155
photograph of, 196f
in The Women (1945), 153
artwork by: The Burning Forest, 196f
Night Paintings, 196
Semmel, Joan, 17n4
sexual themes, 35–37, 53, 180, 183
Shaw Junior High School (Washington, D.C.), 200
Sidney Janis Gallery (New York), 199
Abstract and Surrealist Art in America (1944), 169, 183
Artists: Man and Wife (1949), 183, 185
Young Painters in U.S. and France (1950), 199
Silver, Walter, 156f
Simpson, David, 51, 51f, 193
Siskind, Aaron, 18, 19f
Six Gallery (San Francisco), 14, 17n5, 49, 51, 158, 167, 168, 170, 193
photograph of founders, 51f
Sixteen Americans (1959), 161, 168
60 American Painters, 1960: Abstract Expressionist Painting of the Fifties, 161, 169, 176, 195
67 Gallery (New York), 181
A Problem for Critics (1945), 183
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (Maine), 178
Sleigh, Sylvia, 36
artwork by: Paul Rosano Reclining, 36f
Sloan, John, 164
Smith, David, 68, 182
Smith, Hassel, 14, 17n4, 42, 45, 49, 51, 53, 170, 170f, 173, 187, 193
Smith, Tony, 181
Smith College (Northampton, Massachusetts), 63
Snyder, Charles, 54f
Snyder, Gary, 198
Sobel, Janet
biography of, 197
photograph of, 197f
in The Women (1945), 153
artwork by: Music, 197
Untitled, 197f
Social Realism, 176
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York)
American Abstractionists and Imagists (1961), 180, 186
Younger American Painters (1954), 53
Southampton (New York), 162
Southold (New York), 189
Soyer, Raphael, 163, 196, 202
Spaventa, George, 160f
Spencer, Frann, 184
Spence School (New York), 198
Spicer, Jack, 51f, 193
Spohn, Clay, 173, 193
Springford, Vivian
biography of, 198
photograph of, 198f
artwork by: Untitled, 198f
Spring Salon for Young Artists (1943), 196, 199
Springs (New York), 18, 22, 24, 154, 154f, 174, 174f, 183, 188
Squibb Galleries (New York), 179
Stable Gallery (New York), 14, 18–19, 21, 21f, 68, 69, 169, 177, 183
Annuals, 14, 19, 21, 22, 23, 156–60
Staempfli Gallery (New York), 167
Stahl, Lisa Beth, 40n22
Stahr, Celia, 38
stain painting, 156, 175, 198
Stamos, Theodoros, 155f, 182, 189
Stanford Art Gallery (now Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University), 56n10, 164
Stanton, Domna C., 58
Steichen, Edward, 185
Stein, Gertrude, 165
Steinberg, Saul, 154, 158, 199
Stern, Fritz, 199
Stern, Grete, 31
Sterne, Hedda, 17n3, 153, 154, 155, 165, 181, 189
biography of, 199
photographs of, 155f, 199f
in Stable Gallery: Third Annual, 157
Fourth Annual, 158
travels of, 158
in The Women (1945), 153
artwork by: Alaska I, 159f
No. 3–1957, 199f
Stieglitz, Alfred, 35
Still, Clyfford, 14, 29n6, 44, 45, 46, 48–49, 51, 53, 55, 56n5, 60, 70, 154
at Betty Parsons Gallery, 189
and Falkenstein, 172
and Gechtoff, 176
and Kohlmeyer, 182
and Longfield, 184
and Nakano, 187
with Newman to discuss Parsons Gallery, 28n3
photograph of, 155f
and Remington, 193
signature images of, 61
“Stillites,” 48–49
Strong, Charles, 170
Subjects of the Artist School (New York), 154, 162, 184, 201
Summerford, Ben (Joe), 200
Surrealism, 43, 45, 46, 69, 168, 179, 195, 196, 199, 202
Suzuki, D. T., 166, 177
Sweeney, James Johnson, 182
Sykes, Gerald, 155, 181
Symbolist poetry, 15
Tabary, Céline, 200
Tachisme, 178
Tamayo, Rufino, 153, 175
Tanager Gallery (New York), 69, 158, 160, 162, 163, 185, 188, 191, 201
Tanguy, Yves, 56n7
Taos Moderns, 173
Tapié, Michel, 172
Taylor Gallery (Taos), 173
Teague, Lewis, 154
Tenth Street (New York), 21, 22, 69, 70, 154, 158, 160f, 162, 190
Tenth Street Days catalogue, 70
The Club (New York), 14, 20, 22, 28n4, 60, 68, 154, 155, 162, 163, 185, 190, 191, 201
Thomas, Alma, 153, 154, 160
biography of, 200
photograph of, 200f
artwork by: Red Abstraction, 14, 17f
The Stormy Sea, 200f
Thomas, Yvonne, 11, 70, 158, 161
biography of, 201
and Ninth Street Show, 18
photograph of, 201f
in Stable Gallery: Second Annual, 157
Third Annual, 157
Fourth Annual, 158
Fifth Annual, 158
Sixth Annual, 160
training of, 153, 154, 201
artwork by: Composition, 201f
Transmutation, 13f
Tibor de Nagy Gallery (New York), 68, 69, 162, 169, 175, 180, 203
Frankenthaler solo show (1956), 158, 159f
George [Grace] Hartigan (1954), 157
Paintings by George Hartigan (1951), 155
Poets Choose Painters (1955), 162
Tillim, Sidney, 33–34
Ting, Walasse, 198
Tobey, Mark, 56n5, 190, 197
Tomlin, Bradley Walker, 70
photograph of, 155f
Trave, Horst, 184
Tremaine, Emily Hall, 174
Truman, Harry, 45
Tschacbasov, Nahum, 178
Turman Gallery (Indiana State University), 182
Twelve Americans (1956), 180
Twelve New York Painters (2006), 162
Tworkov, Jack, 165, 182
Tyler School of Art (Temple University, Philadelphia), 200
University of California, Berkeley, 45, 55, 167, 168, 172, 184, 187
University of California, Davis, 53, 57n43, 193
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), 181
University of Iowa, 203
University of Minnesota, 162
University of New Mexico, 161
University of Pennsylvania, 171
Uptown Gallery (New York), 160
van Gogh, Vincent, 63
Varèse, Edgard, 202
Velázquez, Diego, Las Meninas, 166
Venice (California), 172
Venice Biennale, 195, 199
Vicente, Esteban, 14
Vietnam War protest, 192
Villa, Carlos, 57n39
Virgin Islands, 154, 162
Vogue feature on de Koonings, 33
Vollmer, Ruth, 189
von Simson, Ernst, 191
VVV magazine, 196
Vytlacil, Vaclav, 177, 201
Wakefield Gallery and Bookshop (New York), 181, 189, 199
Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), 60 American Painters, 1960: Abstract Expressionist Painting of the Fifties, 161, 169, 176, 195
Wall, Ruth, 45
Wallach, Amei, 41n30
Warhol, Andy, 192, 192f
Water Mill (New York), 203
Weber, Max, 195
Weiss, Eugene, 162
West, Michael/Mikael (pseud. for Corinne Michelle West), 11, 17n3, 22, 160
biography of, 23–24, 202
in Stable Gallery Second Annual, 157
artwork by: Dagger of Light, 24, 25f
Nihilism, 15, 23, 24f
Road to the Sea, 202f
Untitled, 14f
West Coast artists, 11, 70, 156. See also Fillmore Street
San Francisco
compared to East Coast, 14, 70
West Twenty-First Street (New York), 32
White, Ruth, 182
Whitechapel Gallery (London), 183, 189
The White Rose (film), 55
Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), 55, 160, 168, 175, 181, 183, 186
Abstract Expressionism: The Formative Years (1978), 22, 183
annual exhibitions, 165, 179, 188, 194, 196, 199
DeFeo retrospective (2012), 168
Frankenthaler retrospective (1969), 175
Gorky memorial exhibition (1948), 195
Nature in Abstraction (1958), 22, 160, 174, 175, 186, 195
The Paintings of Joan Mitchell (2002), 186
Thomas retrospective (1972), 200
Young America 1957: Thirty American Painters and Sculptors under Thirty-Five, 175
Young America 1960, 167, 176
Wiley, William T., 53, 57n39
Willard Gallery (New York), 22, 153, 174
Williams, Raymond, 65
Wilson, Jane, 25
biography of, 203
in Life article “Women Artists in Ascendance” (1957), 29n19, 70, 160, 203
photograph of, 203f
in Stable Gallery: Second Annual, 157
Third Annual, 157
Fourth Annual, 158
artwork by: The Open Scene, 203
Parade, 203f
Wolfson, Sidney, 177
The Women (1945), 153, 196, 197, 199
Women Choose Women (1973), 181
Women of the ’50s (1995), 188
Women’s Art School of Cooper Union (New York), 183
Women’s Caucus for Art (College Art Association Committee on Women in the Arts), 181
Woodall, Joanna, 38
Wordsworth, William: “Tintern Abbey,” 63
Works Progress Administration (WPA), 59, 69, 153, 183, 185
World War II, 42, 59, 173, 187, 199
WPA. See Works Progress Administration
Yale University School of Art, 188
Young, Donn, 182f
Young America 1957: Thirty American Painters and Sculptors under Thirty-Five, 175
Young America 1960, 167, 176
Younger American Painters (1954), 53
Young Painters in U.S. and France (1950), 199
Zadkine, Ossip, 189
Zev, 45
Zilczer, Judith, 33
Zorach, William, 163, 165
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