Women in Art Lecture Series: Ninth Street Artists at Carriage Barn

*This event will take place at Carriage Barns Art Center* Please register here

In this four-part series highlighting Women in the Arts, the Carriage Barn Arts Center and the New Canaan Library will host celebrated speakers, authors and art historians to shed light on some of the most influential and strong female voices in art today, tell the stories of those who were forgotten or overlooked throughout history, and delve into what the future may hold for women in the arts.  

Professor and art historian Page Knox will kick off the series with a lecture about the Ninth Street Women Artists who were active in New York from 1928-59. The Ninth Street Women were a group of abstract expressionist painters, coined after the “Ninth Street Show” of 1951, who broke into the male-dominated art world in postwar New York City. While there were others, the five core artists considered to make up this group are Elaine de Kooning, Helen Frankenthaler, Grace Hartigan, Lee Krasner, and Joan Mitchell. Each of these women fought to be taken seriously as career artists and challenged the social codes of both society and the art world. 

Page Knox is an adjunct professor in the Art History Department of Columbia University. She works in a variety of capacities as a contractual lecturer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art where she gives public gallery talks and lectures in special exhibitions as well as the permanent collection, teaches classes at the museum, and leads groups for Travel with the Met.

*This event will take place at Carriage Barns Art Center* Please register here