Contributed by Sharon Butler / “Postwar Women� is a big group exhibition of more than forty female artists, active from 1945-1965, who studied at The Art Students League. The League, which, with its focus on painting, sculpture, and printmaking, seems very old-school now. It was originally founded in 1875 by independent-minded students who were looking for an alternative to the traditional approach at the National Academy of Design. Back in the day, students, even women, could pursue their work unconstrained by “dogma, politics, or heavy tuition fees.� Some in the show, like Joyce Pensato, Grace Hartigan, and Louise Bourgeois, are more widely recognized than others, but all of the artists are worth getting to know. Here are a few images.
“Special Exhibition: Postwar Women,� curated by William Corwin and featuring Berenice Abbott, Mary Abbott, Olga Albizu, Janice Biala, Isabel Bishop, Nell Blaine, Regina Bogat, Louise Bourgeois, Vivian Browne, Elizabeth Catlett, Dorothy Dehner, Elaine de Kooning, Monir Farmanfarmaian, Perle Fine, Helen Frankenthaler, Judith Godwin, Terry Haass, Grace Hartigan, Carmen Herrera, Eva Hesse, Faith Hubley, Lenore Jaffee, Gwendolyn Knight, Lee Krasner, Blanche Lazzell, Marguerite Louppe, Lenita Manry, Marisol, Mercedes Matter, Kazuko Miyamoto, Louise Nevelson, Charlotte Park, Joyce Pensato, Irene Rice Pereira, Mavis Pusey, Faith Ringgold, Edith Schloss, May Stevens, Yvonne Thomas, Lynn Umlauf, Maria Vieira da Silva, Merrill Wagner, Joyce Weinstein, Michael West.
The Art Students League: The Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery, 215 West 57th Street, New York, NY. Through December 1, 2019.
——–
NOTE: Today is the 22nd day of the 2019 Two Coats of Paint year-end fundraising campaign and we are on our way to making our goal. If you value what we do at Two Coats of Paint, please consider supporting us for another year. Thanks in advance for your tax-deductible contributions and heartfelt thanks to those readers who have already contributed. Please click here to contribute.
Related posts:
Yulia Iosilzon: Trapped in paradise
Art and Film: Merchants of nostalgia
The Abstract Zeitgeist in Storrs
N. Dash: More enervating than edgy
