Upcoming Exhibitions

Abstract Expressionists: The Women presents a fresh look at important contributions U.S. women painters working in New York, California, and Paris made to Abstract Expressionism from the early 1940s through the 1970s. The show features 47 outstanding examples from The Levett Collection by 32 women artists, offering audiences a more in-depth understanding of a singular aspect of twentieth-century American art, one whose significance has only just begun to receive proper recognition.

Abstract Expressionists: The Women includes works of major art historical importance by the movement’s most prominent female artists: Lee Krasner (1908–1984), Elaine de Kooning (1918–1989), Grace Hartigan (1922–2008), Joan Mitchell (1925– 1992), and Helen Frankenthaler (1928–2011). Master works such as Krasner’s Prophecy (1956), Hartigan’s Cedar Bar (1951), Frankenthaler’s Circus Landscape (1951), and Mitchell’s When They Were Gone (1977) exemplify the originality and radicality of these painters, whose careers would eventually match or even surpass many of their male counterparts.

The show also features other leading women of the New York School such as Mercedes Matter (1913–2001), Perle Fine (1905–1988), and Pat Passlof (1928– 2011), along with work by artists less often recognized but likewise deserving of serious consideration, such as Amaranth Ehrenhalt (1928–2021), Mary Abbott (1921-2019), and Ethel Schwabacher (1903–1984).