Women's Work: Midcentury American Abstraction
For decades, much of the history of 20th-century American art centered around a mostly male coterie of New York artists. But did you know that Jackson Pollock was inspired by a Ukrainian immigrant housewife who took up painting in middle age after borrowing her son's art supplies one day? Or that a young Japanese woman grappling with mental illness and her parents' traditionalism became one of the most influential and avant-garde multidisciplinary artists in the New York art world of the 1960s? Hear their stories and more. This tour starts in the large gallery just after the midway point on the third floor of the BCAM building.
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Audio Tour