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Joan Marter (Editor)
Description: Women of Abstract Expressionism
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Joan Marter (Editor)
PublisherYale University Press
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GWEN F. CHANZIT is curator of modern art and the Herbert Bayer Collection and Archive at the Denver Art Museum and director of museum studies in art history at the University of Denver. Chanzit has organized more than thirty Denver Art Museum exhibitions. Among her books is From Bauhaus to Aspen: Herbert Bayer and Modernist Design in America.
ALIZA EDELMAN is a curator and art historian who has published widely on geometric abstraction and Abstract Expressionism among women artists from the Americas. She holds a Ph.D. in modern art history from Rutgers University.
ROBERT HOBBS has held the Rhoda Thalhimer Endowed Chair of American Art at Virginia Commonwealth University since 1991 and is a visiting professor at Yale University. He has written monographs on a number of artists, including Lee Krasner, Robert Smithson, and Richard Pousette-Dart.
ELLEN G. LANDAU is Andrew W. Mellon Professor Emerita of the Humanities at Case Western Reserve University. She has organized exhibitions about, and written extensively on, Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner. Recent books include Reading Abstract Expressionism: Context and Critique and Mexico and American Modernism.
SUSAN LANDAUER, formerly chief curator of the San Jose Museum of Art, is an independent art historian and curator. Her books include The San Francisco School of Abstract Expressionism, Elmer Bischoff: The Ethics of Paint, and Richard Diebenkorn: The Ocean Park Series (essayist).
JOAN MARTER is Board of Governors Professor of Art History, Rutgers University. She has organized many exhibitions, including Women and Abstract Expressionism, 1945–59, and among her numerous publications is Abstract Expressionism: The International Context. Marter has been editor of the Woman’s Art Journal for the past eleven years.
JESSE LAIRD ORTEGA works at the Denver Art Museum as curatorial assistant in the New World Art department. She has an M.A. in art history and museum studies from the University of Denver and a B.F.A. in art history and Italian from the University of New Mexico.
IRVING SANDLER is a distinguished critic of Abstract Expressionism and professor emeritus of visual arts at Purchase College, State University of New York. Among his many publications are The Triumph of American Painting: A History of Abstract Expressionism, The New York School: The Painters and Sculptors of the Fifties, and A Sweeper-Up after Artists: A Memoir.