Some Living American Women Artists (collage)

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Some Living American Women Artists
ArtistMary Beth Edelson
Year1972
MediumCut-and-pasted gelatin silver prints with crayon and transfer type on printed paper with typewriting on cut-and-taped paper
Dimensions71.8 cm × 109.2 cm (28 1⁄4 in × 43 in)
LocationMuseum of Modern Art

Some Living American Women Artists, also referred to as Some Living American Women Artists/Last Supper, is a collage by American artist Mary Beth Edelson[1] created during the second wave feminist movement.[2] The central portion is an image based on Leonardo da Vinci’s 15th-century mural Last Supper. Edelson replaced the faces of Christ's disciples with cut-out photographs of American women artists. She surrounded the central image with additional photographs of American women artists. The work is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art.[1]

Edelson intended the collage to "identify and commemorate women artists, who were getting little recognition at the time, by presenting them as the grand subject—while spoofing the patriarchy for cutting women out of positions of power and authority."[3]

A lithograph edition of 50 prints was subsequently created. A numbered print is in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.[4]

Artists included in the central portion[edit]

Artists included in the surrounding border[edit]

Photographs of artists in the border are numbered, with a key at the bottom. There is an image numbered "3", but it is not included in the key. Number "43" is neither in the border nor in the key.

  1. Agnes Martin
  2. Joan Mitchell
  3. unidentified
  4. Grace Hartigan
  5. Yayoi Kusama
  6. Marisol
  7. Alice Neel
  8. Jane Wilson
  9. Judy Chicago
  10. Gladys Nilson [sic]
  11. Betty Parsons
  12. Miriam Shapiro [sic]
  13. Lee Bonticou [sic]
  14. Sylvia Stone
  15. Chryssa
  16. Sue Ellen Rocca [sic]
  17. Carolee Schneeman [sic]
  18. Lisette Model
  19. Audrey Flack
  20. Buffie Johnson
  21. Vera Simmons [sic]
  22. Helen Pashgian
  23. Susan Lewis Williams
  24. Racelle Strick
  25. Ann McCoy
  26. J. L. Knight
  27. Enid Sanford
  28. Joan Balou
  29. Marta Minujín
  30. Rosemary Wright
  31. Cynthia Bickley
  32. Lawra Gregory
  33. Agnes Denes
  34. Mary Beth Edelson
  35. Irene Siegel
  36. Nancy Grossman
  37. Hannah Wilke
  38. Jennifer Bartlett
  39. Mary Corse
  40. Eleanor Antin
  41. Jane Kaufman
  42. Muriel Castanis
  43. not in collage or key
  44. Susan Crile
  45. Anne Ryan
  46. Sue Ann Childress
  47. Patricia Mainardi
  48. Dindga McCannon
  49. Alice Shaddle
  50. Arden Scott
  51. Faith Rionggold [sic]
  52. Sharon Brant
  53. Daria Dorosh
  54. Nina Yankowitz
  55. Rachel bas-Cohain
  56. Loretta Dunkelman
  57. Kay Brown
  58. CeRoser
  59. Noma Copley
  60. Martha Edelheit
  61. Jackie Skyles
  62. Barbara Zuker [sic]
  63. Susan Williams
  64. Judith Bernstein
  65. Rosemary Mayer
  66. Maud Boltz [sic]
  67. Patsy Norvell
  68. Joan Danziger
  69. Minna Citron

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Mary Beth Edelson. Some Living American Women Artists. 1972". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 19 January 2022.
  2. ^ "Some Living American Women Artists". Center for the Study of Political Graphics. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
  3. ^ "Direct Access: Edelson comments on the Last Supper" (PDF). Retrieved 21 January 2022.
  4. ^ "Some Living American Women Artists/Last Supper". Smithsonian American Art Museum. Retrieved 19 January 2022.

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