Mary Gabriel: Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler Sarah Carpenter Alex Eagleton

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Mary Gabriel: Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler Sarah Carpenter Alex EagletonIn this expansive and timely study, Mary Gabriel chronicles the lives and careers of five ambitious women who revolutionized postwar art in the United States: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler. Each dared to enter the male dominated art world of the era and pursued her own profoundly original vision, eventually coming to be recognized as a defining member of the New York School. The book derives its