Curators in Conversation: All-Women Exhibitions in the US and UK in the 1950s

Daniel Belasco, art historian and executive director, Al Held Foundation, talks with Rachel Stratton, Curatorial Postdoctoral Research Associate, Yale Center for British Art

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All-women art exhibitions began in London in 1857 and became a widespread phenomenon in the twentieth century. In his new book, Women Artists in Midcentury America: A History in Ten Exhibitions, Daniel Belasco surveys the impact of these gendered spaces. This talk provides an overview of the issues and artists, with a focus on the exhibition Women Printmakers at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1956, which presented more than 125 artists, many of them British. Among those included were Angelica Kauffmann and Laura Knight, both represented in the YCBA’s collections, as well as Leonora Carrington and Norma Morgan.