Stable, 1962. Photo: Kevin Ryan Image, New York; Artwork: © Star of Hope Foundation, Vinalhaven, Maine
Mad Women profiled pioneering women gallerists Jill Kornblee, Martha Jackson, Eleanore Saidenberg, Eleanor Ward, and their respective exhibition programs that flourished along Madison Avenue in the 1960s. During a complex and fraught decade in American history, each of these groundbreaking women became an essential and defining part of the contemporary cultural landscape, all of which remains relevant today.