NAWA Luminaries is the intersection of the National Association of Women Artists’ historical research and current exhibitions around the United States highlighting celebrated NAWA members.

Art Students League, New York, NY

The Art Students League currently exhibits Women in Construction in their Phyllis Harris Mason Gallery at 215 West 57^th Street in New York. The thematic group show explores how 35 women-identifying artists literally and figuratively construct their identities through their artworks. The exhibition includes the following 15 NAWA  historical members listed with their dates of membership:

 Isabel Bishop (HVP 1983); Nell Blaine (HVP 1987);  Audrey Buller (1952); Minna Wright Citron (1943, HVP 1988); Dorothy Dehner (1960, HVP 1984); Anne Goldthwaite (1915); Marion Greenwood (1959); Margo Liebes Harris Hammerschlag (1958); Emily Lowe (1952, HVP 1953); Margaret Lowengrund (1948);  Louise Nevelson (1952, HVP 1984);  Jane Peterson (1909); Agnes Richmond (1905); Rhoda Sherbell (1977, HVP 2014 ); Harriet Stanton (1966) and Anna Walinska (1952).

Louise Nevelson. Untitled, 1982, Mixed Media

The League’s acquisition of its first works by Louise Nevelson to its permanent collection inspired the exhibition. A 1934 drawing from life, produced in and around the time she attended the League, and a collage made much later in her career in her mature style that combined found materials in three-dimensional forms, represent the range of this celebrated artist, who would have been 125 this year.

The League is celebrating Nevelson with a public program featuring Pace Gallery Chairman and Founder Arne Glimcher, who gave Nevelson her first exhibition in 1961, and honoring her at its 2024 gala with a posthumous award.

Susan M. Rostan, M.F.A , Ed.D. Co-Chair: NAWA Historical Research. Website

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