The feature length documentary tells the story of women artists from the 1940’s and 50’s who were excluded from the historical narrative of America’s first avant-garde art movement, simply because they were women. The title is named after Lee Krasner’s painting, “The Eye is the First Circle”. She created the work following the deaths of both her husband, Jackson Pollock in 1956, and her mother in 1959. The compelling story is based in part upon author Mary Gabriel’s New York Times bestselling book, Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art.
Produced by Schler Productions LLC. and made possible in part by Christian Levett, Chris & Erin DeBow, Chambers Initiative and Frankenthaler Foundation.