Two years later, she was named the «most celebrated of the young
American women painters» by Life magazine.
Life magazine called her «the most celebrated of the young
American women painters».
In the late 50's Life magazine pronounced her «the most celebrated of the young
American women painters,» Newsweek featured her in a column next to one about Judy Garland, and she was the only woman represented in «The New American Painting» exhibition that introduced contemporary American art to Europe in 1958 - 59.
In 1958, Life magazine called her «the most celebrated of the young
American women painters.»
Saying that Gurr «painted with the gusto of a Goya,» he praised her «ability to record the emotional impact of an inspired moment» and noted that she held a secure place» in the «front ranks of outstanding
American women painters.»
Not exact matches
Margaret is an inspirational
American painter desperate to sell her unique artwork depicting
women and...
Hand, whose previous books include Black Light and the Tiptree winner Waking the Moon, tells her captivating story in three linked narratives: first, there is 19th - century
American painter Radborne Comstock's encounter with a mysterious
woman; next comes Radborne's...
Joan Mitchell: Lady
Painter adds to the growing literature of how
women American artists struggled to find their place — not as a homogenous group but as vibrant individuals.
Traveled to Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts (October 3 — November 25); Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York (January 15 — February 23, 1985); Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati (March 14 — April 27, 1985); Albright - Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo (September 14 — November 3, 1985) and Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas at Austin (January 12 — February 23, 1986) Sur Invitation, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris (June 6 — September 17) Olympic Arts Festival Los Angeles 1984, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Harbor, California (June 1 — September 9) Selections from the Permanent Collection: Paintings and Sculpture, Museum of Modern Art, New York (opened May 17) Three
Painters, Three Decades: Lee Krasner — Joan Mitchell — Pat Steir, Harcus Gallery, Boston (May 5 — June 20) XXIX Salon de Montrouge, Art Contemporain, Peinture — Sculpture — Dessin, Montrouge, France (May 2 — June 3) Aspects de la Peinture Contemporaine (1945 — 1983), Musée d'art moderne de Troyes, France (April 29 — June 18) Vent «anni d'arte in Francia, 1960 — 1980, Association Française d'Action Artistique, Galleria comunale d'arte moderna di Bologna (March — April) Master Drawings: 1928 — 1984, Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston (March 7 — April) La Part des Femmes dans l'Art Contemporain, Galerie Municipale, Vitry - sur - Seine, France (March)
American Women Artists, Part I: 20th Century Pioneers, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York (January12 — February 4)
Collage, popular culture, or the mere appearance of both in paint has played a similar role for excluded voices, such as African
Americans after Romare Bearden, and it is no coincidence that every
painter that I have mentioned thus far is a
woman.
Hales Project Room put the spotlight on rarely seen, richly stained abstractions created in the 1970s by
American painter Virginia Jaramillo, whose practice has recently been rediscovered through important group shows such as Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power and We Wanted A Revolution: Black Radical
Women, 1965 - 85.
Pictured is Chase's student Josephine Jessup (1858 - 1933), who would become a member of the New York
Women's Art Club and the
American Society of Miniature
Painters.
She pushed on, and in 1934 became the first African -
American artist to be elected to the National Association of
Women Painters and Sculptors.
Interest has steadily grown in the career of the
American painter Lee Lozano (1930 — 99) over the last decade, specifically in her move toward conceptual art that culminated in her boycott of
women for nearly the last 30 years of her life.
Opening: «Hedda Sterne: Machines 1947 - 1951» at Van Doren Waxter One of the few
women in the New York School of artists and poets, a group of post-war
American artists that included the Abstract Expressionist
painters Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock, Hedda Sterne was a Romanian - born
painter and sculptor who made work that ranged from surrealism to expressionism between the 1940s and her death at 100 years old in 2011.
Indeed, a recent Netflix documentary about Herrera titled The 100 Years Show saw the Cuban -
American abstract
painter recall how she was told by gallery owners — female themselves — that she couldn't exhibit her work at their venues because she was a
woman.
1957 The 25th Biennial Exhibition, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC LXII
American Exhibition: Painting & Sculpture, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL Golden Years of
American Drawing 1905 - 1956, The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; Sloshley Art Gallery, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 46th Annual Exhibition of
American Painting, Randolph - Macon
Women's College, Lynchburg, VA Cinq Maitres de la Ligne, Henry Clews Memorial, Fondation d'Arte de la Napoule, Paris, France
American Painting 1945 - 57, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN Pacific Northwest
Painters & Sculptors, Ogunquit Museum of Art, Ogunquit, ME 20th Century Works of Art, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL The
American Vision - Paintings of 3 Centuries, Wildenstein Gallery, New York, NY Art in Asia & The West: An Exhibition to Illustrate Varied Aspects of Asian Traditions & Their Importance for Art in the West, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA Annual Exhibition of Contemporary
American Painting, The Whitney Museum of
American Art, New York, NY 8
American Artists for the United States Information Agency; Korea, Japan, Australia, Europe Carnegie Institute Collects, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH Prints and Drawings: Mainly By Modern French Artists, Parke Bernet Galleries, INC., New York, NY Seattle World's Fair, Seattle, WA
Portal furthers the dialogue about the continued significance of
American women abstract
painters.
In it, Norris plays the eponymous character, an African
American woman who hopes to become a singer and
painter, against the backdrop of a similarly aspirational post-Katrina New Orleans.
She has received awards by the
American Watercolor Society and the National Watercolor Society and is also listed in the Who's Who of Alabama
Women Painters.
Indeed, among the highlights are some captivating pieces by
women, such as the tondo Black and White II (1960) by Cuban - born New York
painter Carmen Herrera, who, at age 100, will be the subject of an upcoming retrospective at the Whitney Museum of
American Art.
Organizations Museums / CollectionsState of California, EDD Bldg., San BernardinoSouth Coast Hospital, Laguna Beach, CA A Vay Adam Museum, Vaja, HungaryGalleries / ShowsWestbeth Gallery, NYCCenter for Contemporary Arts, Abilene, TX, 1991 A Vay Adam Museum, Art Camp Group, Hungary Awards / FoundationsTexas Watercolor Society, San Antonio, TX, 1952, 1957, and 1959 NSMP Mural Competition, NYC, 2nd place, 1983 Art in Public Places, mural commissionEducational InstitutionsUniversity of Southern California, BFA, 1961California State University, Long Beach, MA, 1967California State University, FullertonProfessional Affiliations National Society of Mural
Painters Westbeth Independent ArtistsArtists for Economic ActionReviews / PublicationsUltra Magazine, 1983Who's Who of
American Women The Week, NYC, 2001
Joffe is conscious of the distinct challenges that confront
women artists and admires pioneering female
painters who worked from life, such as the French Impressionist Berthe Morisot, the German Expressionist Paula Modersohn - Becker and Alice Neel, the
American portrait
painter, acknowledging how courageous they were.
Her work has been exhibited and won awards in numerous national and regional juried shows including: Academic Artists Association (Best in Show 1999), Allied Artists of America,
American Artists Processional League, Audubon Artists, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, Connecticut Pastel Society, Connecticut
Women Artists, Mattatuck Museum, New Britain Museum of
American Art, Oil
Painters of America, Pastel Society of America, Rye Arts Center and Salmagundi Non-Members Open.
Open Casket by
American painter Dana Schutz depicts the mutilated corpse of Emmett Till, the 14 - year - old black boy murdered in 1955 after it was falsely claimed he flirted with a white
woman.
The «mother of
American modernism» and the world's most - expensive
woman artist, this pioneering feminist
painter is a true
American icon, as famous for her lifestyle in the rugged New Mexican desert, as for the large paintings of flowers that are her best - known works.
These advancements were made all the more emphatic by the achievements of artists like the Washington
painter Alma Thomas, who, at the age of eighty, was the first African
American woman to have a solo exhibition at New York's Whitney Museum of
American Art in 1972.
In 1916, she was the only
woman to be included in critic Willard Huntington Wright's Forum Exhibition of Modern
American Painters.
With this show, the
American - born British
painter once again turns her eye almost entirely to young
women (one new work depicts a man).
American Society of Contemporary Artists Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club Fine Arts Federation of New York National Academy Museum and School National Association of
Women Artists National Society of Mural
Painters New York Society of
Women Artists Pastel Society of America Silvermine Guild Arts Center Ward - Nasse Gallery
Women in the Arts Foundation
She has received many honors, among them an
American Academy of Arts and Letters Award (2011); Anonymous Was A
Woman Individual Artist Award (2010); Joan Mitchell Foundation
Painters and Sculptors Grant (2010); Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (2004); Artist Fellowship Grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts (1999, 1993, 1986); and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (1986 - 87).
New York (catalogue) Original Gagosian Gallery, New York New Portraits Blum & Poe, Tokyo (catalogue) Fashion Nahmad Contemporary, New York (catalogue) 2014 New Figures Almine Rech Gallery, Paris (catalogue) New Portraits Gagosian Gallery, New York It's a Free Concert Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz (catalogue) Canal Zone Gagosian Gallery, New York Richard Prince / Roe Ethridge Gagosian Gallery, New York (catalogue) 2013 Monochromatic Jokes Nahmad Contemporary, New York (catalogue) Protest Paintings Skarstedt Gallery, London (catalogue) Untitled (band) Le Case D'Arte, Milan Richard Prince: New Work Jürgen Becker, Hamburg (catalogue) Cowboys Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills (catalogue) Sadie Coles HQ, London 2012 White Paintings Skarstedt Gallery, New York (catalogue) Four Saturdays Gagosian Gallery, New York 14 Paintings 303 Gallery, New York (catalogue) Prince / Picasso Picasso Museum, Malaga (catalogue) 2011 The Fug Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels (catalogue) Covering Pollock Guild Hall, Easthampton The Magic Castle 1968 - 1969 Le Consortium, Contemporary Art Center, Dijon (catalogue) Gagosian Gallery, Hong Kong de Kooning Gagosian Gallery, Paris (catalogue)
American Prayer Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris (catalogue) Bel Air Gagosian Residence, Los Angeles 2010 Pre-Appropriation Works, 1971 — 1974 Specific Objects, New York T - Shirt Paintings: Hippie Punk Salon 94, New York (catalogue) Tiffany Paintings Gagosian Gallery, New York (catalogue) 2009 After Dark Gagosian Gallery, New York 2008 Canal Zone Gagosian Gallery, New York (catalogue) Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris (catalogue) Continuation Serpentine Gallery, London Four Blue Cowboys Gagosian Gallery, Rome Gagosian Gallery, London Spiritual America Walker Art Center, Minneapolis 2007 Spiritual America Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (catalogue) Panama Pavilion 52nd Venice Biennale, Venice Fugitive Artist: The Early Work of Richard Prince, 1974 - 77 Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase Canaries in the Coal Mine Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo (catalogue) 2006 Cowboys, Mountains, and Sunsets Sprüth & Magers, Cologne The Portfolios Jürgen Becker, Hamburg Cowboys & Nurses John McWhinnie at Glenn Horowitz, New York 2005 Hippie Drawings Sadie Coles HQ, London (catalogue) Whitechapel Gallery, London Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York Check Paintings Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills (catalogue) 2004
American Dream, Collecting Richard Prince for 27 Years Rubell Family Collection, Miami (catalogue) Sammlung Goetz, Munich (catalogue) Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich (catalogue)
Women Regen Projects, Los Angeles (catalogue) 2003 Nurse Paintings Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York (catalogue) Upstate Sabine Knust, Munich New Work Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, East Hampton Publicities Hydra Workshop, Hydra Island (catalogue) Nurse Paintings Sadie Coles HQ, London 2002 Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York (catalogue) Principal Painting and Photographs Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg Painting Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich Patrick
Painter, Inc., Santa Monica 2001 Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel (catalogue) Publicities Sadie Coles, HQ, London (catalogue) Regen Projects, Los Angeles Photographs 1977 - 1979 Skarstedt Fine Art, New York (catalogue) Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp Neue Galerie im Höhmann - Haus, Augsburg 2000 Princeville Partobject Gallery, Carrboro Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York Photographs, Paintings Jablonka Galerie, Cologne 4x4 MAK, Vienna Up - state MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Schindler House, Los Angeles 1999 Paintings 1988 - 1998 Sadie Coles HQ, London 1998 Regen Projects, Los Angeles Joke Paintings Skarstedt Fine Art, New York Psychoarchitecture: Richard Prince, Martin Kippenberger Anton Kern Gallery, New York Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York Sabine Knust - Maximilian Verlag, Munich Stills Ltd., Edinburgh 1997 The White Room Jürgen Becker, Hamburg; Parco, Tokyo White Cube, London Museum Haus Lange / Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld Cowboys and Cowgirls Espace d'Art Yvonamor Palix, Paris 1996 Sabine Knust - Maximilian Verlag, Munich Passion Play Haus der Kunst, Munich New Works Jablonka Galerie, Cologne 1995 Paintings Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York Theoretical Events, Naples Regen Projects, Los Angeles 1994 Photographs 1977 - 1993 Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover (catalogue) Offshore Gallery, East Hampton 1993 Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp Fotos, Schilderijen, Objecten Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam Girlfriends Jablonka Galerie, Cologne (catalogue) Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco First House Stuart Regen Projects, Los Angeles 1992 Kunstverein and Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf Whitney Museum of
American Art, New York (catalogue) Protest Paintings Sabine Knust - Maximilian Verlag, Munich Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside Works on Paper Le Case d'Arte, Milan 1991 Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York Galleri Nordanstad — Skarstedt, Stockholm Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris Stuart Regen Gallery, Los Angeles 1990 Jokes, Gangs, Hoods Galerie Rafael Jablonka and Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans 1989 Spiritual America IVAM Center del Carme, Valencia (catalogue) Sculpture Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York Paintings Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York Barn Gallery, Ogunquit Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles 1988 Galerie Rafael Jablonka, Cologne Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York (catalogue) Centre National d'Art Contemporain de Grenoble, Grenoble Le Case d'Arte, Milan Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris Messages to the Public: Tell Me Everything Public Art Fund, Times Square, New York 1987 Galerie Isabella Kacprzak, Stuttgart Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles 1986 International with Monument, New York Feature Gallery, Chicago 1985 International with Monument, New York Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery, Los Angeles 1984 Riverside Studios, London Feature Gallery, Chicago Baskerville + Watson, New York 1983 Le Nouveau Musée, Lyon (catalogue) Le Consortium, Contemporary Art Center, Dijon Institute of Contemporary Art, London Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery, Los Angeles Baskerville + Watson, New York 1982 Metro Pictures, New York 1981 Metro Pictures, New York Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery, Los Angeles 1980 Artists Space, New York CEPA Gallery, Buffalo
An accomplished and celebrated
painter who was the first African
American woman to have a solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of
American Art in New York in 1972, Thomas pursued many forms of creativity.
Lee Krasner (1908 - 1984),
American painter and collage artist, served as an important inspiration to contemporary
women artists.
American Women Artists, Part II: The Recent Generation, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, USA Beauties and Beasts, Pratt Manhattan Center Gallery, New York, USA Three
Painters, Three Decades: Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell, Pat Steir, The Harcus Gallery, Boston, USA Fauna, Flora, Etc, Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York, USA Vision and Conscience, University Art Gallery, State University of New York, Binghamton, USA Highlights: Selections from the BankAmerica Corporation Art Collection, Bank of America World Headquarters, San Francisco, USA Four
Painters: Pat Steir, Sean Scully, Robert Mangold, Robert S Zakanitch, McIntosh / Drysdale Gallery, Houston, USA Content: A Contemporary Focus 1974 — 1984, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, USA Dowd Fine Arts Center Gallery, State University of New York, Cortland, USA, The New Culture:
Women Artists of the Seventies, traveled to Turman Gallery, IN; State University, Terre Haute, IN; Emily H Davis Gallery, The University of Akron, Akron, OH.
Among her numerous awards and grants are a Guggenheim Fellowship, the
American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Art, the Anonymous Was A
Woman Individual Artist Award, and the Joan Mitchell Foundation
Painters and Sculptors Grant.
10/25 Kerry James Marshall, «Mastry» Through 1/29, the Met Breuer A
painter of historical mysteries and the «African -
American vernacular,» Marshall will showcase his huge graphic masterpieces of jet - black men,
women, and children in housing projects, on streets, at play in the fields of the
American Dream.
Praised for his jewel - like landscapes, park scenes, and sympathetic images of
women, William Merritt Chase (1849 — 1916) was a leading
American Impressionist
painter and an influential teacher in the late 19th century.
An active member of the New York School of
painters, Sterne was also one of the artists known as the «Irascibles», who protested against the Metropolitan Museum of Art's policy on
American painting of the 1940s and who was included in a now iconic photograph for Life magazine in 1951; Sterne, notably, is the only
woman in the image.
The sale will feature five works by five
women artists: French sculptor Germaine Richier; self taught Italians,
painter Dadamaino and Sicilan Carla Accardi; Japanese art star Yayoi Kusama and
American sculptor Louise Nevelson.
Highlights include works by the iconic 19th - century
painter Childe Hassam, who popularized impressionism in the United States with his lush city scenes and natural landscapes; Japanese
American artist Yasuo Kuniyoshi's bold image of the modern
woman as a bather in the 1920s; and a recent minimalist seascape by photographer Catherine Opie that reduces the ocean to subtle, ethereal layers of color in which the human figure is almost overwhelmed by natural environment.
Carmen Herrera (b. 1915, Havana) One Cuba's first abstract
painters, Herrera has exhibited widely in solo and group shows, including El Espíritu latinoamericano: Arte y artistas en los Estados Unidos, 1920 - 1970, which traveled widely in the United States in 1988 and 1989, and Crossing Borders: Contemporary Art by Latin
American Women at the College of New Rochelle, N.Y., in 1996.
Though she was the first African -
American woman to receive a solo exhibition at an
American museum — at the Whitney, in 1972 — the abstract
painter Alma Thomas (1891 - 1978) is underknown today.
Untitled (Astronaut Tereshkova, First
Woman in Space), 2015, from
American painter / sculptor Robert Longo, aged 52, who first came to the fore in the 1980s with a series depicting sharply - dressed men and
women writhing in contorted emotion, has contributed a piece made up of two huge monochrome panels (each 238.8 x 121.9 cm), executed in the age - old medium of charcoal.
• WILLEM DE KOONING (1904 - 97) Dutch - born
American abstract expressionist
painter, member of the New York School, best - known for his style of gestural painting, as exemplified by his semi-abstract images of
women.
Looking at this, as at the absent
Women, it seems perverse if not actually impossible to think of De Kooning how he was once seen, as an abstract
painter: he was as embedded in the experience of landscape and mutable light as the
American «luminist» Martin Johnson Heade had been out there among the dunes a century before.
Heilmann's big ideas and promiscuous use of different media have made her a hero for a new generation of
painters, not least the
women leading abstract
American art today.
Columbus native Alma Thomas was an expressionist
painter and educator who was the first African -
American woman to have a solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of
American Art.
Gurr was a member of the
American Artists Congress, [10] Artists Equity Association, [67] Artists League of America, [91] Artists Union, [42] Audubon Artists, [10] Brooklyn Society of Artists, [81] National Association of
Women Painters and Sculptors, [33] and New York Society of
Women Artists.
A dark work by Worpswede
painter and Rilke confidant Paula Modersohn - Becker, showing a peasant
woman slowly moving through a dark Northern German landscape, is a rare sighting of this artist in an
American institution.