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Making Space: Women Artists and Postwar Abstraction
MoMA exhibition of nearly 100 works by more than 50 women artists across postwar abstraction. AEU stores only source-verified entries from its current corpus.
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- Lee KrasnerSources: Making Space: Women Artists and Postwar Abstraction
MoMA overview names Krasner among gestural painters in the exhibition.
- Helen FrankenthalerSources: Making Space: Women Artists and Postwar Abstraction
MoMA overview names Frankenthaler among gestural painters in the exhibition.
- Joan MitchellSources: Making Space: Women Artists and Postwar Abstraction
MoMA overview names Mitchell among gestural painters in the exhibition.
- Jay DeFeoSources: Making Space: Women Artists and Postwar Abstraction
MoMA exhibition artist list includes Jay DeFeo.
- Grace HartiganSources: Grace Hartigan. Shinnecock Canal. 1957
Participation evidenced by the Shinnecock Canal collection page gallery label for Making Space.
- Shinnecock CanalSources: Grace Hartigan. Shinnecock Canal. 1957
MoMA collection page identifies this work with the Making Space gallery label.
- Hedda SterneSources: Hedda Sterne. New York, VIII. 1954
Participation evidenced by New York, VIII installation/exhibition record.
- New York, VIIISources: Hedda Sterne. New York, VIII. 1954
MoMA collection page identifies this work in Making Space installation history.
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- Lee Krasnerartist participated in exhibition
- Helen Frankenthalerartist participated in exhibition
- Joan Mitchellartist participated in exhibition
- Jay DeFeoartist participated in exhibition
- Grace Hartiganartist participated in exhibition
- Shinnecock Canalartwork exhibited in
- Hedda Sterneartist participated in exhibition
- New York, VIIIartwork exhibited in
- The Museum of Modern Artexhibition at institution
- Gendered institutional and critical barrierscontextualizes without causal claim
- Historical recovery and canon reassessmentcontextualizes without causal claim
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- Making Space: Women Artists and Postwar Abstractionmuseum exhibition · verified 2026-09-09Open source ↗
- Grace Hartigan. Shinnecock Canal. 1957museum collection · verified 2026-09-09Open source ↗
- Hedda Sterne. New York, VIII. 1954museum collection · verified 2026-09-09Open source ↗