Ninth street women : Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler : five painters and the movement that changed modern art / Mary Gabriel.

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Introduction -- Prologue : The Ninth Street show, New York, May 1951 -- Part I. 1928-1948 : Lee : Lena, Lenore, Lee -- The gathering storm -- The end of the beginning -- Elaine : Marie Catherine Mary Ellen O'Brien Fried's daughter -- The master and Elaine -- Art in war : The flight of the artists -- It is war, everywhere, always -- Chelsea -- Intellectual occupation -- The high beam -- A light that blinds, I -- A light that blinds, II -- The turning point : It's 1919 over again! -- Awakenings -- Separate together -- Peintres maudits -- Lyrical desperation -- Death visits the kingdom of the saints -- The new Arcadia -- Part II. 1948-1951 : Grace : The call of the wild -- The acts of the Apostles, I -- The acts of the Apostles, II -- Fame -- The flowering -- Riot and risk -- Helen : The deep end of wonder -- The thrill of it -- The puppet master -- Joan : Painted poems -- Mexico to Manhattan via Paris and Prague -- Waifs and minstrels -- Part III. 1951-1955 : Oh, to leave a trace : Coming out -- The perils of discovery -- Said the poet to the painter -- Neither by design nor definition -- Discoveries of heart and hand : Swimming against a riptide -- At the threshold -- Figures and speech -- Refuge -- A change of art -- Life or art -- The red house -- Five women : The grand girls, I -- The grand girls, II -- The grand girls, III -- Part IV. 1956-1959 : The rise and the unraveling : Embarkation point -- Without him -- The gold rush -- A woman's decision -- Sputnik, beatnik, and pop -- Bridal lace and widow's weeds -- Five paths ... -- ...Forward; Epilogue.