Tuesday | March 17 | 5:30 PM
Season 7 of the AMA Art Lovers Book Club continues on Tuesday, March 17, when the club will discuss Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art, by Mary Gabriel.
Registration is free. RSVP HERE.
ABOUT THE BOOK CLUB
Ninth Street Women is a sweeping group biography of five women artists (Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler) who transformed American art in the 20th century. They boldly entered the male-dominated world abstract painting during a time when women were expected to be muses, not artists.
These pioneers forged a path the art world for themselves and countless others to come.
- Lee Krasner was a hell-raising leader among artists long before she became part of the modern art world’s first celebrity couple by marrying Jackson Pollock.
- Elaine de Kooning, whose brilliant mind and peerless charm made her the emotional center of the New York School, used her work and words to build a bridge between the avant-garde and a public that scorned abstract art as a hoax.
- Grace Hartigan fearlessly abandoned life as a New Jersey housewife and mother to achieve stardom as one of the boldest painters of her generation.
- Joan Mitchell, whose notoriously tough exterior shielded a vulnerable artist within, escaped a privileged but emotionally damaging Chicago childhood to translate her fierce vision into magnificent canvases.
- Helen Frankenthaler, the beautiful daughter of a prominent New York family, chose the difficult path of the creative life.
RSVP online HERE.
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