et in the decades between 1930 and 1960, Liesl Olsonâs Chicago Avant-Garde: Five Women Ahead of Their Time shows us how five womenâpainter Gertrude Abercrombie, poet Gwendolyn Brooks, choreographers Katherine Dunham and Ruth Page, and curator Katharine Kuhâchampioned âthe radical, experimental culture that emerged in Chicago across a range of artistic disciplines in the first half […]
