About the Author

Debra Bricker Balken is an independent curator and writer who has organized numerous exhibitions on subjects relating to American modernism and contemporary art for major museums internationally. Her award-winning books include Philip Guston's Poor Richard (2001) and Abstract Expressionism- Movements in Modern Art (2005), as well as exhibition catalogues such as Arthur Dove, A Retrospective (1997), The Park Avenue Cubists (2003), Dove/O'Keeffe- Circles of Influence (2009), After Many Springs- Regionalism, Modernism and the Midwest (2009), John Storrs- Machine-Age Modernist (2010), and John Marin- Modernism at Midcentury (2011).