Women Art Dealers

Erica Brausen's life has hiterto been obscured by history and academic neglect. In this thesis I have written an academic biography of Brausen and a history of the Hanover Gallery. I have looked at the artists of the canon whose careers were closely linked to the Hanover. I have also argued the importance and impact of the Hanover Gallery to the representation of queer artists and
imagery in London from 1948-1973.

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Edith Gregor Halpert (1900–70) and her Downtown Gallery are best known for introducing Jacob Lawrence and his now iconic Migration Series (1941) to a crossover audience. Lawrence and his aesthetics appealed intensely to Halpert because, like Lawrence, she was an American original.  Halpert’s formative years reveal similarities with Lawrence’s. Both came to New York City’s Harlem as children with their mothers and a sibling, both were precocious, hard- working, and idealistic; and both became extremely successful. Halpert’s success came from her savvy sensibility to expand and popularize American art with endless promotional schemes.

Il volume è stato pubblicato in occasione della mostra "Pistoia Novecento. Sguardi sull’arte dal secondo dopoguerra", a cura di A. Acocella, A. Iacuzzi, C. Toschi presso Fondazione Pistoia Musei di Pistoia (9 settembre 2020-22 agosto 2021), ed è pensato come un racconto sinergico al progetto espositivo, arricchito da un atlante iconografico che presenta le riproduzioni delle opere e dei documenti, di cui molti inediti, selezionati per la mostra.