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Ninth Street women

Ninth Street women

Mary Gabriel · 2018 · 927 pages

Modern ArtWomen artistsAbstract expressionismBiographyWomen, biographyPainting, american

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"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"--

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