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Women in the Arts Series: The Ninth Street Women Artists
September 13, 2023 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Wednesday, September 13 at 7pm
Waitlist only: email [email protected] to join the waitlist
** Gallery opens at 6:30pm for check-in, lecture at 7pm **
Professor and art historian Page Knox will kick off the series with a lecture about the Ninth Street Women Artists who were active in New York from 1928-59. Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell and Helen Frankenthaler exhibited in the groundbreaking Ninth Street Art Exhibition, heralding the emergence of a new postwar avant garde. Knox will share the remarkable and inspiring stories of these women who’s work, as well as the way they defied convention, changed American art and society.
Page Knox is an adjunct professor in the Art History Department of Columbia University. She works in a variety of capacities as a contractual lecturer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art where she gives public gallery talks and lectures in special exhibitions as well as the permanent collection, teaches classes at the museum, and leads groups for Travel with the Met.
