The Women Of Abstract Expressionism: 12 Artists History Should Not Forget

It’s a tired claim — that art history systematically forgets the women who took part in it — but it’s also true. Some books recognize the other de Kooning — Elaine, and the great Helen Frankenthaler. But for the most part, the annals of Ab-Ex art are filled with Roberts and Peters and even a Clyfford or two. According to recorded history, the painters experimenting with spontaneous, automatic or subconscious creativity were almost exclusively (white) male. Read More…