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The Directors of Marlborough Gallery are pleased to present a new series of work by the artist Red Grooms. Inspired by the 2018 novel by Mary Gabriel, Ninth Street Women, Grooms has recollected and re-constructed history through painting, merging the infamous 1951 photograph from Life magazine of the Irascibles with the women of Ninth Street.

“The Sparkling Amazons,” the term coined by Thomas Hess, described five women who revolutionized the modern art world in postwar America, comprised of Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler. The Irascibles, …