Barbara Rose who has died, aged 84 courtesy HBO
Barbara Rose, an art historian and champion of avant-garde 20th century art, died on Friday (25 December) in Concord, New Hampshire, aged 84.
The cause of death was breast cancer, which Rose had been diagnosed with a decade before her death. After her landmark 1965
Art in America essay “ABC Art,” which helped define Minimalism, brought her to prominence, Rose would spend the following five decades as a writer and editor, holding editorial roles at such publications as Art in America, Vogue, Artforum, and the
Partisan Review.
In the late 1960s, Rose authored the book
Art historian Barbara Rose—Minimalism cheerleader and champion of women artists—has died, aged 84
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Platt family collection.
The painter Alethea Hill Platt spent the first half of her life in comfortable obscurity, painting for her own pleasure in a Greenwich Village town house. But in the 1890s, she was forced out of her home and scrambled for income. She nimbly reinvented herself as a fixture on the Manhattan art scene.
Fig. 1.
The Maine Coast by Alethea Hill Platt (1860– 1932), c. 1918. Signed “Alethea H. Platt” at lower left. Oil on canvas, 14 by 18 inches.
Photograph courtesy of Skinner, Inc.
She joined forces with women painters organizing exhibitions nationwide. She won acclaim for a kind of Ashcan school take on rural scenery in Europe and the United States, depicting fishermen, farmers, and craftspeople laboring in dimly lit cabins or outdoors by moonlight. The