Alice Denney was born on November 8, 1922. She was the first director of the
Jefferson Place Gallery. She was intimately involved in the founding of the
Washington Gallery of Modern Art (in 1961), and was the founder of the
Washington Project for the Arts (in 1975). Denny served as the assistant director of the Washington Gallery of Modern Art. at the Washington Gallery of Modern Art which included
Robert Rauschenberg's "Concerto #5", with the
Judson Dance Theater. In 1978, she brought the exhibit
Punk Art, to the Washington Project of the Arts. Denney died from a stroke on November 20, 2023, at the age of 101. == References ==