Community Collection Study Session: Ninth Street Artists
Thursday, Mar 13, 6:00PM - 7:30PM
Location: Dillard Room
Join WAM curators for a discussion of abstract artists Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler inspired and shaped by Mary Gabriel’s 2017 book Ninth Street Women. We will examine artwork and historical context to unravel how these five women’s artworks function as both an expression of their humanity and as mid-century social commentary.
The session will be followed by light refreshments in the Atrium. Registration required, HERE.
Image: Front Cover of Ninth Street Women by Mary Gabriel, winner of the 2022 NYU/Axinn Foundation Prize for narrative nonfiction and the 2019 Library of Virginia and Virginia Museum of Fine Arts’s Mary Lynn Kotz Award.
