According to Alicia Longwell, Ph.D., The Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Chief Curator at the Parrish Art Museum, who organized the exhibition, «At a time when abstract painting was thought to be the only valid, and valued, way to make art, these two artists began to look at the
world around them in terms
of how a painting could present a heightened reality and still deal in
representational images — each conveying her own authentic response to the natural
world.»