Alice Denney Explained

Alice Denney
Birth Date:November 8, 1922
Death Place:Washington, D.C., U.S.
Nationality:American
Occupation:Art curator, arts administrator

Alice Denney (November 8, 1922 – November 20, 2023) was an American art curator and arts administrator. Denney has been considered to be an important figure of the Washington, D.C. avant-garde arts and had been the mentor to a number of Washington D.C.'s artists.[1]

Life and career

Alice Denney was born on November 8, 1922.[2] She was the first director of the Jefferson Place Gallery.[3] She was intimately involved in the founding of the Washington Gallery of Modern Art (in 1961),[4] [5] and was the founder of the Washington Project for the Arts (in 1975).[6] Denny served as the assistant director of the Washington Gallery of Modern Art.

Denney helped with the exhibition, The Popular Image (1963),[7] at the Washington Gallery of Modern Art which included Robert Rauschenberg's "Concerto #5", with the Judson Dance Theater.[8] [9] In 1978, she brought the exhibit Punk Art, to the Washington Project of the Arts.[10] [11]

Denney died from a stroke on November 20, 2023, at the age of 101.[12]

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Notes and References

  1. News: Richard. Paul. 1986-06-01. Shaking Up the Arts Scene. en-US. Washington Post. 2021-08-31. 0190-8286.
  2. Book: Rosenberg, Susan. Trisha Brown: Choreography as Visual Art. 2016-11-01. Wesleyan University Press. 978-0-8195-7663-7. 54. en.
  3. Web site: Archives Directory for the History of Collecting, Jefferson Place Gallery. live. 2021-08-31. The Frick Collection. en. https://web.archive.org/web/20190905040149/https://research.frick.org/directory/detail/335 . 2019-09-05 .
  4. Web site: John Anderson. 2012-03-12. What Happened in Washington. 2021-08-31. Washington City Paper. en-US.
  5. Book: Mccray, W. Patrick. Making Art Work: How Cold War Engineers and Artists Forged a New Creative Culture. 2020-10-20. MIT Press. 978-0-262-35950-4. 93. en.
  6. Web site: Carrigan. Margaret. 2015-12-17. A Washington, DC, Nonprofit Reflects on 40 Years of Championing Local Artists. live. 2021-08-31. Hyperallergic. en-US. started in 1975 by art curator and activist Alice Denney. https://web.archive.org/web/20151224122546/http://hyperallergic.com/262298/a-washington-dc-nonprofit-reflects-on-40-years-of-championing-local-artists/ . 2015-12-24 .
  7. Web site: The Warholstars Timeline. live. 2021-08-31. Warholstars.org. https://web.archive.org/web/20011122004008/http://www.warholstars.org:80/chron/1963.html . 2001-11-22 .
  8. Book: Democracy's body: Judson Dance Theater, 1962-1964. Sally Banes. Duke University Press. 1993. 978-0-8223-1399-1 .
  9. Book: Hopps. Walter. Robert Rauschenberg, a Retrospective. Rauschenberg. Robert. Davidson. Susan. Brown. Trisha. 1997. Guggenheim Museum. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. 978-0-8109-6903-2. 243. en.
  10. Web site: Punk Art Exhibition, III. Punk Years, 1976–79. live. 98bowery.com. 21 May 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20090510102853/http://www.98bowery.com:80/punkyears/punk-art-show.php . 2009-05-10 .
  11. Book: Mattson, Kevin. We're Not Here to Entertain: Punk Rock, Ronald Reagan, and the Real Culture War of 1980s America. 2020. Oxford University Press. 978-0-19-090823-2. 138. en.
  12. News: Langer . Emily . Alice Denney, Washington's impresario of the experimental, dies at 101 . 30 November 2023 . The Washington Post . 29 November 2023.

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