Celebrate the Pioneering Artistry of the Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler

Robert Duistermars: This is a highly readable and engaging portrait of important American artists at a key artistic moment in NYC.

United States on Oct 05, 2023

Alex: This a great book for any female interested in art! I read it and then bought it for a friend

United States on Sep 30, 2023

sofia14: Perfect!

United States on Aug 22, 2023

Kimberly: I loved this book. It is an excellent book on the history of the Abstract Impressionist movement from the viewpoint of the women. I highly recommend it!

United States on Jul 08, 2023

BlueSkinBlake: I am a painter who grew up wanting to paint like Frankenthaler, Krasner, Mitchell, and E. deKooning. So after many years, I was very happy to see someone who would take on the challenge write about these incredible artists lives.
I respect the huge amount of research that went on to creating such a work and I appreciate how hard it must’ve been to collate all the threads of anecdotes and stories of the 9th Street Women.
However, although I appreciated the detail of these these artists lives Ifelt that a lot of the information used was irrelevant and the writing often orbited too much on the male artists and their influence on the art world. As I read I kept feeling that the author was missing something as I was hoping that the book would be about the artist’s studio practice and they organised and supported each other in a more concise way. I remember that I kept wondering what was the impact these painters had on the likes of O’Keefe and Carrington et al. Consequently I felt
that the book could have been shorter and I was surprised to discover that, although not being a 9th Street Artist, Agnes Martin was omitted from this narrative as, dare I say, very much part...

United Kingdom on Mar 23, 2022

Luisa: Bien documentado, muy interesante. Voy lento porque no es una novela pero te adentras en un momento fundamental para entender el arte moderno y contemporáneo

Mexico on Feb 08, 2022

Mareika: This is an extremely well researched subject by the author. A complete and accurate reflection of this artistic movement--I lived through this period as first, the daughter of a second generation artist and second, as the wife of a second generation painter. It all rings true. My only criticism is the use of the name place label "the Hamptons." It did not exist until sometime in the 1980's. Up untill that time the area was referred to as "Out East" or by individual towns, like East Hampton, West Hampton, Sagaponack, etc. "The Hamptons" refers to an stretch of towns from Westhampton to Montauk where money, wild parties, famous personalities played, huge mansions were built, unbearable traffic crowded every back road available--which generally changed a laid back way of life forever. During the 1940's, 50's and 60's these towns were devoted to farming, fishing, and respectful, wealthy, summer visitors who cared about the community--they arrived in June or July and left on Labor Day. The author's use of the "Hamptons" word to describe the summer destination of these New York School artists during the 40's and 50's is inaccurate and irritating to me as a native born and life long...

United States on Sep 01, 2021

Rosanna Burford: This is such an amazing book! The author lets you dive into the atmospheric world of the artists, you can hardly put it down. A must read for artists and all art-lovers!

Germany on Jun 13, 2021

malard nancy: Tout d'abord il faut dire que le livre n'est qu'n anglais, et je doute que vu le sujet, même traduit, il trouve son public en France . Ceci dit, c'est une véritable révélation, documentée, fouillée, très bien écrit, on apprend énormément sur la vie et le travail de ces peintres dont souvent on ignore l'existence. En France on a coutume de prétendre que l'Ecole de New York a usurpé sa position dominante dans les années 50-60 mais ce livre démontre que n'est pas vrai. Il suffit d'étudier les oeuvres de cet époque; rien n'est volé , ce sont des oeuvres de grande qualité qui valent largement ce qui se faisait à Paris à la même époque. Il faut chercher les images sur le web pour comprendre la valeur de ces peintres qui ont tout sacrifié pour peindre.

France on Jun 10, 2021

Jean: Several of the people who appear in that book were my friends and/or colleagues, I can personally vouch for the way this book brings them back to life. This is a period in the history of art during which painters were trying to connect with “the real” or “truth”, and desperately wanted to be true to the experience (whether it succeeded or failed), and most (not all) of those artists had no interest whatsoever in "chachkies-making” and/or careerism (times have changed drastically since).
Highly recommended reading, with special attention to an immense artist far too little known, Joan Mitchell.

Canada on Aug 09, 2019