Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art (LITTLE, BROWN A)

The Ninth Street Women is a groundbreaking true story of five women who revolutionized the modern art world in postwar America.

This book is a "gratifying, generous, and lush" account of their lives, struggles, and triumphs.

The women dared to enter the male-dominated world of twentieth-century abstract painting as artists, not muses, and their work changed American art and society forever.

Gutsy and indomitable, Lee Krasner was a leader among artists, while Elaine de Kooning used her work and words to build a bridge between the avant-garde and the public.

Grace Hartigan fearlessly abandoned life as a housewife and mother to achieve stardom as one of the boldest painters of her generation.

Joan Mitchell escaped a privileged but emotionally damaging childhood to translate her fierce vision into magnificent canvases, and Helen Frankenthaler created a work so original it launched a new school of painting.

These women's stories are inspiring, heartbreaking, and ultimately triumphant, and their legacy continues to shape the art world today.