Exhibition News: Women Across America: 1945 – 1979
Janice Biala, Untitled, c. 1948, oil on canvas, 13 x 18 in. (33 x 45.7 cm.)
Women Across America: 1945 – 1979
Eric Firestone Gallery
40 Great Jones Street, New York, NY
May 12 – July 31, 2026
The Indian Vase (For Duncan and Lily), 1947, Oil on canvas, 27 x 20 in. (68.6 x 50.8 cm)
Eric Firestone Gallery is pleased to present Women Across America: 1945–1979, an exhibition that showcases connections between women across the country in the post-World War II period. This exhibition highlights the rich tradition of abstraction within the period across various mediums. Taking inspiration from William Gerdts’s sprawling Art Across America: Two Centuries of Regional Painting 1710–1920, the three-volume encyclopedia of art in the United States, this exhibition reimagines what an Americanist Art History of the postwar period might look like if told through women’s art. The show traces a transitional time for women within the art world, with figures such as Adaline Kent and Jeanne Reynal who forged their own paths in order to work as artists, painters like Pat Passlof and Helen Frankenthaler who fought for a place within the New York School, and artists who became outspoken in their feminism during the women’s movement like Miriam Schapiro and Nina Yankowitz. This exhibition furthers the gallery’s commitment to reexamining modern and contemporary art histories of the United States, especially championing underrecognized artists.
Featured artists: Mary Abbott • Elise Asher • Janice Biala • Elaine de Kooning • Sari Dienes • Martha Edelheit • Perle Fine • Helen Frankenthaler • Jane Freilicher • Shirley Gorelick • Grace Hartigan • Adaline Kent • Ellen Key-Oberg • Ida Kohlmeyer • Lee Krasner • Zoe Longfield • Beatrice Mandelman • Jeanne Miles • Betty Parsons • Pat Passlof • Jeanne Reynal • Miriam Schapiro • Edith Schloss • Hedda Sterne • Alma Thomas • Nina Yankowitz
