TY - BOOK AU - Gabriel, Mary TI - Ninth Street Women: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art SN - 9780316226172 U1 - ARTS PY - 2019/// CY - . PB - Back Bay Books KW - Abstract painting KW - Postwar american art KW - Women artists N1 - Set amid the most turbulent social and political period of modern times, Ninth Street Women is the impassioned, wild, sometimes tragic, always exhilarating chronicle of five women who dared to enter the male-dominated world of twentieth-century abstract painting -- not as muses but as artists. From their cold-water lofts, where they worked, drank, fought, and loved, these pioneers burst open the door to the art world for themselves and countless others to come ER -