Hyperallergic: Women Across America: 1945 – 1979 in "25 Art Shows Reckoning With the US at 250"

The word “celebration” doesn’t feel especially appropriate when it comes to acknowledging the 250th anniversary of the United States in these trying times, but we can recognize that this milestone certainly presents both a welcome and critical opportunity for reflection.

As this occasion brings a wealth of complex emotions, intersecting perspectives, trailblazing innovation, and grotesque histories to the forefront, the arts landscape would rightfully remind us that it’s worth commemorating our abilities to both document and channel these complexities. With that, art also provides us with the tools to not only imagine but also build our future.

Hyperallergic presents 25 art-related events across the nation that acknowledge the steps we’ve taken, the place we stand in today, and the undefined path ahead of us.

'Women Across America: 1945 – 1979'

Shifting between Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, the Washington Color School, and the Women’s Art Movement, this show traces women artists’ groundbreaking contributions to and influence on post-war American art. Several key paintings are coming out of private collections for the first time, bringing together works by Helen Frankenthaler, Lee Krasner, Sari Dienes, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Alma Thomas, Perle Fine, Jane Freilicher, Miriam Schapiro, and Betty Parsons, among others, for a multigenerational dialogue on the refusal of exclusion.