Abstract Expressionism: The Women, 1 from Ellen Landau’s talk at Wichita Art Museum
notes: “female light touch might be strongest gesture of all” H. Frankenthaler
Joan Mitchell – JR R- Audrey Flack – Miriam Shapiro – who were jurors of show I exhibited in ….
Bernice Bing – Alma Thomas – Eleusinian Mysteries celebrating goddess Persephone Deborah
FAMM - the tour begins right here right now in Wichita, overlooked talented female artists
Joan Mitchell in France
gendered myth, simultaneous ambitious practitioners, innovators, expand known perimeters
remediate... terror of sublime... w/ sensuality - content should not be eliminated
Mercedes Matter 1936 - E de Kooning 1948 - Patt Passloff - Sonia Gechtoff 1958 the Map
Peggy Guggenheim - Exhibition by 31 Women
Lee Krassner small brushes small works
E de Kooning Bullfight 1960 - Betty Parsons Gall(ery)
Sara Ge San Franciscan - The Queen
artistic environment crafted solely by men, terror of the sublime -> male color field
gestural - action painters - attributed to drawing - Heroic brand 9th St Show 1956
mid 1950s female by 1947 - France - ...Grace Hartigan - belle peinture, x Fascist x social realism
A series of drawings made during art historian Ellen Landau's lecture for Abstract Expressionists: The Women, at Wichita Art Museum.
- Current Location: Artist's studio
- Collections: Drawings and Sketchbooks