We put together the following list in honor of the 12 artists whose artworks are on view in Women of Abstract Expressionism. Learn more about these artists in upcoming lectures and talks.)

1) Three of the 12 artists are still living: Mary Abbott, Sonia Gechtoff, and Judith Godwin. 2) Helen Frankenthaler developed the technique of staining, which is pouring thinned paint onto raw, unprimed canvas to create bleeds of color. Her work led to future artists creating Color Field painting. 3) Elaine de Kooning was commissioned by the White House to paint President Kennedy’s portrait in 1963. 4) Though Mary Abbott was also a model who appeared on magazine covers, including Glamour, she wanted people to respect her as the serious artist she was. 5) Jay DeFeo was at the Six Gallery (co-founded by Deborah Remington) on October 7, 1955 when Allen Ginsberg read his famous poem Howl for the first time. Beat writer Jack Kerouac played drums. 6) Deborah Remington studied with Clyfford Still. 7) Perle Fine was one of the first female members of the Eighth Street Club in New York City, which was started by a handful of abstract artists. 8) Grace Hartigan held kite-making and kite-flying parties for friends. 9) Lee Krasner loved to dance. Her partner was sometimes artist Piet Mondrian. She said Jackson Pollock (her husband) had two left feet. 10) The Denver Art Museum now has eight new acquisitions and three promised gifts by women abstract expressionist artists in our collection. 11) Jazz was important to many of the artists. You can learn more about their relationship to this genre in the exhibition and listen to jazz in the lounge section of the exhibition. 12) Most of the artists were based in New York, but Jay DeFeo, Sonia Gechtoff, and Deborah Remington worked in San Francisco, and said the art scene was supportive of women. Gechtoff and Remington later moved to New York, where they encountered gender bias. (Learn more at the September 21st lecture "The Advantages of Obscurity: San Francisco Women Abstract Expressionists."

Associated Artist

• Elaine De Kooning
• Sonia Gechtoff
• Deborah Remington

Associated News

• January 28, 2024
  The sharp, solitary eye of Sonia Gechtoff
  Two Coats of Paint
  Natasha Sweeten
  January 28, 2024
  


• January 28, 2024
  The New Yorker Goings On


• August 1, 2022
  Sonia Gechtoff
  Artnet
  Sarah Cascone
  August 2022
  


• August 1, 2022
  Sonia Gechtoff
  The New Yorker
  Johanna Fateman
  August 2022
  


• July 27, 2022
  Sonia Gechtoff Finally Gets Her Due
  HyperAllergic
  John Yau
  July 27, 2022
  
  


• December 2, 2021
  Getting to Know an Overlooked Pioneer of Bay Area Abstraction
  HYPERALLERGIC
  John Yau
  December 2, 2021
  


• October 27, 2021
  Sonia Gechtoff
  The 1960s In New York: A Series of Transitions
  ArtDaily
  October 27, 2021
  
  


• October 27, 2021
  Sonia Gechtoff
  The 1960s In New York: A Series of Transitions
  GalleriesNow
  
  


• April 26, 2021
  Press Release - Sonia Gechtoff: Gesture Meets Hard Edge: Part 1


• April 26, 2021
  Sonia Gechtoff: Gesture Meets Hard Edge: Part I
  GalleriesNow
  April 26, 2021
  
  


• October 12, 2019
  A Forgotten Painter and Her Visionary Abstraction
  Hyperallergic
  John Yau
  October 12, 2019
  


• September 9, 2019
  Paintings from 1988 to 1995 10 Sep?—?5 Oct 2019 at the David Richard Gallery
  Wall Street International Magazine
  September 9, 2019
  


• September 9, 2019
  Paintings from 1988 to 1995
  Wall Street International Magazine 09/09/2019
  
  


• September 4, 2019
  Sonia Gechtoff: Forces of Nature on the Grand Stage: Paintings from 1988 to 1995
  Galleriesnow.net
  September 4, 2019
  


• August 28, 2019
  Press Release - Sonia Gechtoff "Forces of Nature on the Grand Stage: Paintings from 1988 to 1995"


• March 14, 2018
  Sonia Gechtoff - The End of an Era in the Male-Dominated Abstract Expressionism
  Ideelart
  March 14, 2018
  By Phillip Barcio
  


• February 9, 2018
  Sonia Gechtoff, Acclaimed Abstract Expressionist, Dies at 91
  The New York Times
  By Neil Genzlinger
  
  


• February 9, 2018
  SONIA GECHTOFF (1926–2018)
  ArtForum
  February 9, 2018
  
  


• February 8, 2018
  Sonia Gechtoff was a key but little-recognized figure in the Abstract Expressionist movement.


• May 22, 2017
  Drawings from the early 1960's by Sonia Gechtoff on view at Anders Wahlstedt Fine Art
  ArtDaily.com
  Ma7 22, 2017
  
  


• June 23, 2016
  The Divine Dozen: Sonia Gechtoff’s Star Still Shines Brightly
  by Rosemary Carstens
  


• February 22, 2015
  Momentum: An Experiment in the Unexpected
  San Jose Art Museum
  February 22, 2015
  
  


• April 13, 2014
  Sonia Gechtoff in Her Studio: Then and Now
  Westbeth.org
  


• August 8, 2012
  
  DEBORAH REMINGTON: SELECTED WORKS FROM 1964 to 1975
  Santa Fe New Mexican
  Pasatiempo, 07/20/2012
  Michael Abatemarco
  
  


• July 1, 2012
  Press Release - Deborah Remington "Selected Works from 1964 to 1975"


• October 17, 2011
  Sonia Gechtoff: The Ferus Years
  Published on Oct 17, 2011
  A collection of Ferus era drawings and paintings at Nyehaus.
  
  


• January 20, 2011
  The Cool Revival: Sonia Gechtoff in San Francisco
  Art In America
  By Faye Hirsch
  January 20, 2011