Installation view, Expanding Abstraction: New England Women Painters, 1950 to Now, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA. Photograph by Clements Photography and Design, Boston.
This exhibition presents a vital yet lesser-known history of abstract painting in New England by showcasing the work of women painters with strong connections to the region. Despite their relative exclusion from mainstream and male-dominated conversations on postwar abstraction, these artists have made significant contributions to the field. Spanning from the 1950s to the present, the works on view in the exhibition expand traditions of abstract painting and testify to the artists’ unwavering productivity and creative innovation.
Drawn primarily from deCordova’s permanent collection, this survey explores diverse techniques, processes, and concepts. The exhibition and interpretation also emphasizes the artists’ contributions, connections, and reception within New England. Expanding Abstraction reveals the complexities of painting in the region and lays the foundation for a more inclusive understanding of abstraction through the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
Josef Albers (1888 - 1976); Alexander Porfirjowitsch Archipenko (1887 - 1964); Milton Avery (1885 - 1965); George Wesley Bellows (1882 - 1925); Albert Bierstadt (1830 - 1902); Ralph Albert Blakelock (1847 - 1919); William Baziotes (1912 - 1963); Oscar Florianus Bluemner (1867 - 1938); Patrick Henry Bruce (1881 - 1936); George DeForest Brush (1854 - 1941); Alexander Calder (1898 - 1976); William Merritt Chase (1849 - 1916); Frederic Edwin Church (1826 - 1900); Joseph Cornell (1903 - 1972); Jasper Francis Cropsey (1823 - 1900); Arthur Bowen Davies (1862 - 1928); Stuart Davis (1892 - 1964); Maria Oakey Dewing (1845 - 1927); Thomas Wilmer Dewing (1851 - 1938); Burgoyne Diller (1906 - 1965); Arthur Garfield Dove (1880 - 1946); Asher Brown Durand (1796 - 1886); Thomas Cowperthwaite Eakins (1844 - 1916); Naum [Naum Neemia Pevsner] Gabo (1890 - 1977); Adolph Gottlieb (1903 - 1974); William Michael Harnett (1848 - 1892); Marsden Hartley (1877 - 1943); Frederick Childe Hassam (1859 - 1935); Martin Johnson Heade (1819 - 1904); Robert Henri (1865 - 1929); Hans Hofmann (1880 - 1966); Winslow Homer (1836 - 1910); Edward Hopper (1882 - 1967); George sr. Inness (1825 - 1894); Eastman Johnson (1824 - 1906); Franz Kline (1910 - 1962); Walt Kuhn (1880 - 1949); Gaston Lachaise (1882 - 1935); Jacob Lawrence (1917 - 2000); Fitz Hugh Lane (1804 - 1865); Louis Lozowick (1892 - 1973); George Benjamin Luks (1867 - 1933); John McLaughlin (1898 - 1976); Paul Howard Manship (1885 - 1966); Alfred Henry Maurer (1868 - 1932); [Emmanuel Rudinski] Man Ray (1890 - 1976); John Marin (1870 - 1953); László Móhóly-Nagy (1895 - 1946); Elie Nadelman (1882 - 1946); Georgia O'Keeffe (1887 - 1986); John Frederick Peto (1854 - 1907); Jackson Pollock (1912 - 1956); Maurice Brazil Prendergast (1858 - 1924); Theodore Robinson (1852 - 1896); Ad Reinhardt (1913 - 1967); Frederic Sackrider Remington (1861 - 1909); Irene Rice Pereira (1902 - 1971); Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848 - 1907); John Singer Sargent (1856 - 1925); Morton Livingston Schamberg (1881 - 1918); Charles Rettew Sheeler (1883 - 1965); John French Sloan (1871 - 1951); David Smith (1906 - 1965); Frank Stella (1936 - 2024); John Henry Twachtman (1853 - 1902); Charmion von Wiegand (1896 - 1983); James A. McNeill Whistler (1834 - 1903); Thomas Worthington Whittredge (1820 - 1910); Alexander Helwig Wyant (1836 - 1892);
Josef Albers (1888 - 1976); Alexander Porfirjowitsch Archipenko (1887 - 1964); Milton Avery (1885 - 1965); William Baziotes (1912 - 1963); George Wesley Bellows (1882 - 1925); Albert Bierstadt (1830 - 1902); Ralph Albert Blakelock (1847 - 1919); Oscar Florianus Bluemner (1867 - 1938); Patrick Henry Bruce (1881 - 1936); George DeForest Brush (1854 - 1941); Alexander Calder (1898 - 1976); William Merritt Chase (1849 - 1916); Frederic Edwin Church (1826 - 1900); Joseph Cornell (1903 - 1972); Jasper Francis Cropsey (1823 - 1900); Arthur Bowen Davies (1862 - 1928); Stuart Davis (1892 - 1964); Maria Oakey Dewing (1845 - 1927); Thomas Wilmer Dewing (1851 - 1938); Burgoyne Diller (1906 - 1965); Arthur Garfield Dove (1880 - 1946); Asher Brown Durand (1796 - 1886); Thomas Cowperthwaite Eakins (1844 - 1916); Naum [Naum Neemia Pevsner] Gabo (1890 - 1977); Adolph Gottlieb (1903 - 1974); John D. [Ivan Gratianovitch Dombrowsky] Graham (1886 - 1961); William Michael Harnett (1848 - 1892); Marsden Hartley (1877 - 1943); Frederick Childe Hassam (1859 - 1935); Martin Johnson Heade (1819 - 1904); Robert Henri (1865 - 1929); Hans Hofmann (1880 - 1966); Winslow Homer (1836 - 1910); Edward Hopper (1882 - 1967); George sr. Inness (1825 - 1894); Eastman Johnson (1824 - 1906); Franz Kline (1910 - 1962); Walt Kuhn (1880 - 1949); Gaston Lachaise (1882 - 1935); Fitz Hugh Lane (1804 - 1865); Jacob Lawrence (1917 - 2000); Louis Lozowick (1892 - 1973); George Benjamin Luks (1867 - 1933); [Emmanuel Rudinski] Man Ray (1890 - 1976); Paul Howard Manship (1885 - 1966); John Marin (1870 - 1953); Alfred Henry Maurer (1868 - 1932); John McLaughlin (1898 - 1976); László Móhóly-Nagy (1895 - 1946); Elie Nadelman (1882 - 1946); Georgia O'Keeffe (1887 - 1986); Irene Rice Pereira (1902 - 1971); John Frederick Peto (1854 - 1907); Jackson Pollock (1912 - 1956); Maurice Brazil Prendergast (1858 - 1924); Ad Reinhardt (1913 - 1967); Frederic Sackrider Remington (1861 - 1909); Theodore Robinson (1852 - 1896); Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848 - 1907); John Singer Sargent (1856 - 1925); Morton Livingston Schamberg (1881 - 1918); Charles Rettew Sheeler (1883 - 1965); John French Sloan (1871 - 1951); David Smith (1906 - 1965); Frank Stella (1936 - 2024); Charmion von Wiegand (1896 - 1983); James A. McNeill Whistler (1834 - 1903); Thomas Worthington Whittredge (1820 - 1910); Alexander Helwig Wyant (1836 - 1892); John Henry Twachtman (1853 - 1902);
Today you find 196813 artists, and 8192 curators in 222568 exhibitions in 12614 venues (resulting in 771378 network edges) from 1880 to present, in 1550 cities in 162 countries, plus 278 professional and private artwork offers.
We use cookies to improve your user experience, to personalize content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyze our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our social media, advertising and analytics partners who may combine it with other information that you’ve provided to them or that they’ve collected from your use of their services in accordance with our privacy policy.
Please accept or decline our use of cookies and other information practices described in the privacy policy. By declining, your cookie information will be deleted from our systems and our site may not function as intended.