9th Street Art Exhibition

The 9th Street Art Exhibition, and 9th St. Show or Ninth Street Show called, was an art exhibition, which was held from 21 May to 10 June 1951 in a dilapidated commercial buildings in the 9th Street in New York. The exhibition showed the 20th century, gathered numerous well-known artists, the new American art and marked the start of the New York avant-garde of the post-war period, which was known in the subsequent period as the New York School. Major participants included the Abstract Expressionist Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock and Hans Hofmann.

Background

The studios of most of the artists were in the late 1940s in the area of 8th and 12th Street between First and Avenue of the Americas ( Sixth Avenue ). The artists were commonly referred to as "Downtown Group". In 1949, the Downtown Group the "Artist 's Club " in the 39 East 8th Street. With few exceptions, members consistently war veterans and professional artists with a mean age of 40 years were. In the weekly club meetings took place. Since the artists were respected by the art critics of the postwar era too little, the idea of ​​organizing a comprehensive exhibition originated. The exhibition to be held in a dilapidated building at 60 East 9th Street, and so the group agreed on the title " Ninth Street Show". The exhibition poster showing the names of all participants, was designed by Franz Kline. The aspiring art dealer Leo Castelli took part in the exhibition.

Artists in the exhibition

  • Alfred L. Copley (1910-1992)
  • Rene Robert Bouche (1906-1963)
  • Theodore Brenson (1893-1959)
  • James Brooks (1906-1992)
  • Peter Busa (1914-1985)
  • Giorgio Cavallon (1904-1989)
  • Nicolas Carone ( * 1917 )
  • Elaine de Kooning (1918-1989)
  • Willem de Kooning (1904-1997)
  • Robert De Niro, Sr. (1922-1993)
  • Enrico Donati (1909-2008)
  • Friedel Dzubas (1915-1994)
  • Jimmy Ernst (1920-1984)
  • Herbert Ferber (1906-1991)
  • John Ferren (1905-1970)
  • Perle Fine (1908-1988)
  • Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011)
  • Michael Goldberg (1924-2007)
  • Robert Goodnough ( * 1917 )
  • Clement Greenberg (1909-1994)
  • Peter flu (1912-2002)
  • Philip Guston (1913-1980)
  • Grace Hartigan (1922-2008)
  • Hans Hofmann (1880-1966)
  • Harry Jackson ( * 1924)
  • Kappell (?)
  • Earl Kerkam (1891-1965)
  • Franz Kline (1910-1962)
  • Gitou Knoop (1909-1985)
  • Albert Kotin (1907-1980)
  • Lee Krasner (1908-1984)
  • Alfred Leslie (* 1927)
  • Richard Lippold (1915-2002)
  • Seymour Lipton (1903-1986)
  • Conrad Marca - Relli (1913-2000)
  • Boris Margo (1902-1995)
  • George McNeil (1908-1995)
  • Joan Mitchell (1926-1992)
  • Robert Motherwell (1915-1991)
  • Costantino Nivola (1911-1988)
  • Jackson Pollock (1912-1956)
  • Fairfield Porter (1907-1975)
  • Richard Pousette-Dart (1916-1992)
  • Melville Price (1920-1970)
  • Ad Reinhardt (1913-1967)
  • Milton Resnick (1917-2004)
  • Robert Richburg (1917-2006)
  • James Rosati (1912-1988)
  • Anne Ryan (1889-1954)
  • Joop Sanders ( born 1921 )
  • Louis Schanker (1903-1981)
  • Day Schnabel (1905-1991)
  • Sonia Sekula (1918-1963)
  • Aaron Siskind (1903-1991)
  • David Smith (1906-1965)
  • Theodoros Stamos (1922-1997)
  • Joe Stefanelli (1921 - )
  • John Stephan (1906-1994)
  • Jean Steubing
  • Bradley Walker Tomlin (1899-1953)
  • Jack Tworkov (1900-1982)
  • Esteban Vicente (1903-2001)

Significance and aftermath

The art historian Bruce Altshuler wrote: "The artists celebrated in the 9th Street not only the appearance, the art dealers, collectors and museum people and the exhibition of their work, but also the foundation and strength of a living community of significant size. "

Despite the public interest in the exhibition, the art criticism initially showed relatively unaffected by the show and there were few galleries, exhibiting the works of the New York School. The New York Stable Gallery showed a tribute to the legendary Ninth Street Show on an annual basis from 1953 to 1957 works of well-known Abstract Expressionists. These exhibitions were known as " Stable Annual" in the New York art world. Second Annual Stable wrote the art critic Clement Greenberg:

"This exhibition was conceived and organized by artists; that her previous event was the famous Ninth Street Show, which took place in the spring of 1951 on the ground floor of an empty office building. As this was organized the exhibition and its participants have been notified by the artists themselves and invited and breadth of the liveliest tendencies in the mainstream of advanced painting and sculpture were presented. I do not think that the reverberation of this show has subsided. "

The photographer Aaron Siskind, a representative of the abstract expressionist photography and even a member of the New York School, made ​​numerous photographs of the scene. He was also the only photographer who took part in the exhibition.

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