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Hedda Sterne (August 4, 1910 – April 8, 2011) [1] was a Romanian-born American artist who was an active member of the New York School of painters. Her work is often associated with Abstract Expressionism and Surrealism. [2]
Alma Woodsey Thomas (September 22, 1891 – February 24, 1978) was an African-American artist and teacher who lived and worked in Washington, D.C., and is now recognized as a major American painter of the 20th century.
Her works often focus on important women from history, as shown in her most famous work, “The Dinner Party,” which represents 39 significant figures in the history of women artists (The ...
The emergence of abstract art coincided with the invention of Cubism in Paris in the first decade of the 20th century. Paris remained the centre of gravity for later art movements like Futurism, Purism, Vorticism, Cubo-Futurism, Dada, Constructivism and Surrealism until the outbreak of World War II and the Nazi persecution of "degenerate art", which precipitated a mass migration of artists and ...
She helped found the American Abstract Artists in 1936, [6] serving as treasurer, secretary, and then president. She took part in a MoMA demonstration. In the 1940s she began working at the Atelier 17 where she created etchings and woodcuts. [7] Mason's first solo exhibition of her work in New York was in 1942 at The Museum of Living Art.
Action, Gesture, Paint: Women Artists and Global Abstraction 1940–1970 was an art exhibition held at the Whitechapel Gallery from 9 February 2023 through 7 May 2023. The exhibit presented 150 mid-century abstract paintings by 81 women artists. The show included artists from Asia, Europe, North America, and South America.
In 2016 her work was included in the exhibition Women of Abstract Expressionism organized by the Denver Art Museum. [67] In 2015, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria, organized Joan Mitchell Retrospective: Her Life and Paintings, which traveled to Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany (2015–2016). [68]
Mary Lee Abbott (July 27, 1921 – August 23, 2019) [1] was an American artist, known as a member of the New York School of abstract expressionists in the late 1940s and 1950s. [2] Her abstract and figurative work were also influenced by her time spent in Saint Croix and Haiti , where she lived off and on throughout the 1950s.