'Ninth Street Women' focuses on forgotten stars of Abstract Expressionism

Abstract Expressionism may be more popular than any other topic in the history of American art.  In a few short years following World War II, a small group of talented, swashbuckling, impoverished, and isolated artists overcame the indifference of the art world, as well as their often self-destructive behavior, and decisively moved the center of Western art from Paris to New York City.

For the most part – as is the case with much of art history – the story of Abstract Expressionism is a story about men.  In “Abstract Expressionism: The Triumph of American Painting,”