Title: Ninth Street women
Description: "Set amid the most turbulent social and political period of modern times, Ninth Street Women is the impassioned, wild, sometimes tragic, always exhilarating chronicle of five women who dared to enter the male-dominated world of twentieth-century abstract painting–not as muses but as artists. From their cold-water lofts, where they worked, drank, fought, and loved, these pioneers burst open the door to the art world for themselves and countless others to come"--
Subjects: Modern Art, Women artists, Abstract expressionism, Biography, Women, biography, Painting, american, Abstract Painting, Women painters, American Painting, Art, Expressionnisme abstrait, Femmes artistes, Biographies, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Artists, Architects, Photographers, Women, Künstlerin, Kunst, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Places: United States, New York (State), New York
People: Grace Hartigan, Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011), Elaine De Kooning, Lee Krasner (1908-1984), Joan Mitchell (1925-1992)
Time periods: 20th century