ARTbreak: "Women's Work" in the 1950s: Nine Branches on a Feminist Tree

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Tuesday February 28

12:00 PM  –  1:00 PM

In this virtual presentation, art collector Michael T. Ricker provides a closer look at nine female artists whose works, loaned from his personal collection, are on view in the exhibition Art, Music, and Feminism in the 1950s. His presentation explores the various pathways that these artists took while negotiating the challenges of mid-century careers in the visual arts. In differing combinations they sculpted, painted, made prints, taught, and ran businesses—each driven by a desire to compete and excel on an uneven playing field. From New York to the Florida Gulf Coast and from Texas to California, they set standards and kept pace with a rapidly-evolving art world.


Michael T. Ricker is an independent scholar, dealer, and collector living in North Texas. His areas of expertise include Mexican social realist works of the 19th and 20th centuries and American modernism. He recently authored the catalogue for the Georgia Museum of Art exhibition, Graphic Eloquence: American Modernism on Paper, as well as contributing to the GMoA publication, Extra Ordinary: Magic Mystery, and Imagination in American Realism. He is currently working on a study of the work of Maybelle Stamper, whose work is included in this exhibition.He has also contributed to exhibition catalogues for the work of Leonard Baskin and Rico Lebrun, among others, and has written on various aspects of folk art. He is currently working on a study of the work of Maybelle Stamper, whose work is included in this exhibition.

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