Gail Levin on Alice Baber, with Deborah Solomon
Art historians Gail Levin and Deborah Solomon discuss overlooked abstract painter Alice Baber and her place in twentieth-century American art history.
Why we picked this
The story of a brilliant abstract painter written out of the canon — told by two art historians who know exactly how and why it happened.
Art historian Gail Levin turns her attention to Alice Baber, an American abstract painter whose luminous, color-saturated work earned serious attention in her lifetime but has since fallen into relative obscurity. In conversation with Deborah Solomon, Levin makes the case for Baber’s place in the history of postwar American painting.
Levin is best known for her definitive biography of Edward Hopper and her scholarship on women artists who have been marginalized by the art historical establishment. Solomon, an art critic and biographer, brings her own perspective on the forces that determine which artists are remembered and which are forgotten.
The event is free at the CUNY Graduate Center and is available both in person and virtually.