Alice Denney
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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][2]
Life and career
Alice Denney was born on November 8, 1922.[1] 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.[1]
Denney helped with the exhibition, The Popular Image (1963),[4][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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Further reading
- A Tribute to Alice Denney, 50 Years of Life and Work in the Avante-Garde, by Maia Gatcheva, May 9, 2006
- "A Brief History of WPA & WPA\C", Washington Project for the Arts, Laura Coyle
External links
- Oral history interview with Alice Denney, 1975 December 9-1976 January 27, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
- Oral history interview with Alice Denney, 1976 May 13, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution