Women of Abstract Expressionism

by Irving Sandler Joan Marter (Editor), Gwen F. Chanzit (Introduction), Robert Hobbs (Contributor), Ellen G. Landau (Contributor), Susan Landauer (Contributor)

A long-awaited survey of female Abstract Expressionist artists revealing the richness and lasting influence of their work The celebrated survey of female Abstract Expressionist artists revealing the richness and lasting influence of their work.

The artists Jay DeFeo, Helen Frankenthaler, Grace Hartigan, Elaine de Kooning, Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell, and many other women played major roles in the development of Abstract Expressionism, which flourished in New York and San Francisco in the 1940s and 1950s and has been recognized as the first fully American modern art movement.

Though the contributions of these women were central to American art of the twentieth century, their work has not received the same critical attention as that of their male counterparts. This groundbreaking book reveals the richness of the careers of these important artists and offers keen new reflections on their work and the movement as a whole. 

Hardcover / 216 pages / 12.2 x 10.3 inches