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. . . a fascinating and original investigation of the intersecting careers of Texas-based art dealer Dord Fitz and the prominent New York-based modernists Elaine de Kooning, Jeanne Reynal, and Louise Nevelson. Thoroughly researched, engagingly written, thoughtfully argued, and lavishly illustrated, this book makes a valuable contribution to American art scholarship . . . . --David Cateforis, author of Willem de Kooning and editor of Rethinking Andrew Wyeth--David Cateforis . . . highlights the efforts of a long-forgotten pioneer who advanced popular acceptance of abstract expressionism. Amarillo art dealer Dord Fitz publicized and advocated for mid-century modernism, especially female abstract expressionists. This book represents the best of art history. . . . belongs on the bookshelf of every person interested in the evolution of the visual arts in the United States during the mid-twentieth century. --Light Townsend Cummins, former State Historian of Texas and author of Allie Victoria Tennant and the Visual Arts in Dallas--Light Townsend Cummins In Three Women Artists, Amy Von Linton and Bonnie Roos conduct an incisive, surprising, and engagingly presented examination of the Midwestern commitments of three major artists usually associated with New York. The authors make a persuasive case for a continuing revision of postwar American art history that acknowledges its geographical breadth as a key analytical lens. In the process, they make vital interventions into several pernicious tropes in the history of American modernism, effectively countering a critical teleology that has restricted scholarly consideration of abstract expressionism to the 1950s, and thoroughly debunking the notion that postwar modernism in America only existed on or had relevance for audiences on the coasts. --Louise Siddons, author of Centering Modernism: J. Jay McVicker and Postwar American Art--Louise Siddons

""". . . a fascinating and original investigation of the intersecting careers of Texas-based art dealer Dord Fitz and the prominent New York-based modernists Elaine de Kooning, Jeanne Reynal, and Louise Nevelson. Thoroughly researched, engagingly written, thoughtfully argued, and lavishly illustrated, this book makes a valuable contribution to American art scholarship . . . .""--David Cateforis, author of Willem de Kooning and editor of Rethinking Andrew Wyeth--David Cateforis "". . . highlights the efforts of a long-forgotten pioneer who advanced popular acceptance of abstract expressionism. Amarillo art dealer Dord Fitz publicized and advocated for mid-century modernism, especially female abstract expressionists. This book represents the best of art history. . . . belongs on the bookshelf of every person interested in the evolution of the visual arts in the United States during the mid-twentieth century.""--Light Townsend Cummins, former State Historian of Texas and author of Allie Victoria Tennant and the Visual Arts in Dallas--Light Townsend Cummins ""In Three Women Artists, Amy Von Linton and Bonnie Roos conduct an incisive, surprising, and engagingly presented examination of the Midwestern commitments of three major artists usually associated with New York. The authors make a persuasive case for a continuing revision of postwar American art history that acknowledges its geographical breadth as a key analytical lens. In the process, they make vital interventions into several pernicious tropes in the history of American modernism, effectively countering a critical teleology that has restricted scholarly consideration of abstract expressionism to the 1950s, and thoroughly debunking the notion that postwar modernism in America only existed on or had relevance for audiences on the coasts.""--Louise Siddons, author of Centering Modernism: J. Jay McVicker and Postwar American Art--Louise Siddons"

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AMY VON LINTEL, author of Georgia O'Keeffe's Wartime Texas Letters, is the Doris Alexander Endowed Distinguished Professor of Fine Arts at West Texas A&M University in Canyon, Texas. BONNIE ROOS is the head of the Department of English, Philosophy, and Modern Languages at West Texas A&M University. She is author of Djuna Barnes's Nightwood: The World and the Politics of Peace.

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