 9th Street Art Exhibition

The 9th Street Art Exhibition, also known as the 9th St. Show or Ninth Street Show (May 21-June 10, 1951) is considered a ground-breaking event for Abstract Expressionism, and a new art world order focused, for the first time, on the New York School, rather than the School of Paris.The historic show was the stepping-out of the post-war New York avant-garde, many of whom became world-class artists, with Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline and Jackson Pollock among the most famous of a group that included Helen Frankenthaler, Joan Mitchell, and many others.