Mary Beth Edelson - NOMEN: American Women Artists from 1945 to Today New York Monday, June 17, 2019 | Phillips

Create your first list.

Select an existing list or create a new list to share and manage lots you follow.

  • Provenance

    Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner

  • Exhibited

    Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art / Henry Gallery, Woman Rising, 1974-1975
    New York, David Lewis Gallery, Shape Shifter, March 3 – April 21, 2019

  • Catalogue Essay

    Mary Beth Edelson
    Born 1933, East Chicago, Indiana

    1955 BA DePauw University, Indiana
    1958 MA New York University

    Selected museum exhibitions: Kunsthalle Münster (2018); Princeton University, New Jersey (2015); Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut (2014); Malmö Konstmuseum, Sweden (2006); Stony Brook Museum, SUNY (2002); University of Tennessee, Knoxville (1989); Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C. (1989); MoMA PS1, New York (1986); Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh (1983); Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo (1980); Franklin Furnace, New York (1978)
    Selected honors: International Artists Studio Program, Sweden (2006); Yaddo Residency (2005); Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts (2001); Pollock-Krasner Foundation (2000); Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, DePauw University, Indiana (1993)
    Selected public collections: Brooklyn Museum; Detroit Institute of Art; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Malmö Konstmuseum, Sweden; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Museum of Modern Art; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington; Tate Modern, London; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Whitney Museum of American Art

    A celebrated American artist, Mary Beth Edelson is an activist, and pioneer of the first-generation feminist art movement. For the past fifty years she has created iconic works of art – ranging from photography, painting, sculpture, and drawing to performance, print making, books, collages and murals – often using her own body as canvas and subject matter. Celtic, 1974-1975, is from her series of Great Goddess Cut-Outs. Standing 8 feet high, this shaped painting asserts itself as an iconic and archetypal emblem of femininity and spirituality across time and cultures.

25

Celtic

signed and titled on the reverse
painted plywood
96 x 48 in. (243.8 x 121.9 cm.)
Executed in 1974-1975.

Estimate On Request

NOMEN: American Women Artists from 1945 to Today

New York Selling Exhibition 19 June - 3 August 2019