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]
| Some Living American Women Artists | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Artist | Mary Beth Edelson |
| Year | 1972 |
| Medium | Cut-and-pasted gelatin silver prints with crayon and transfer type on printed paper with typewriting on cut-and-taped paper |
| Dimensions | 71.8 cm × 109.2 cm (28 1⁄4 in × 43 in) |
| Location | Museum of Modern Art |
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- Lynda Benglis
- Helen Frankenthaler
- June Wayne
- Alma Thomas
- Lee Krasner
- Nancy Graves
- Georgia O'Keeffe (photograph replacing the image of Christ)
- Elaine de Kooning
- Louise Nevelson
- M. C. Richards
- Louise Bourgeois
- Lila Katzen
- Yoko Ono
Artists included in the surrounding border
editPhotographs 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.
- Agnes Martin
- Joan Mitchell
- unidentified
- Grace Hartigan
- Yayoi Kusama
- Marisol
- Alice Neel
- Jane Wilson
- Judy Chicago
- Gladys Nilson [sic]
- Betty Parsons
- Miriam Shapiro [sic]
- Lee Bonticou [sic]
- Sylvia Stone
- Chryssa
- Sue Ellen Rocca [sic]
- Carolee Schneeman [sic]
- Lisette Model
- Audrey Flack
- Buffie Johnson
- Vera Simmons [sic]
- Helen Pashgian
- Susan Lewis Williams
- Racelle Strick
- Ann McCoy
- J. L. Knight
- Enid Sanford
- Joan Balou
- Marta Minujín
- Rosemary Wright
- Cynthia Bickley
- Lawra Gregory
- Agnes Denes
- Mary Beth Edelson
- Irene Siegel
- Nancy Grossman
- Hannah Wilke
- Jennifer Bartlett
- Mary Corse
- Eleanor Antin
- Jane Kaufman
- Muriel Castanis
- not in collage or key
- Susan Crile
- Anne Ryan
- Sue Ann Childress
- Patricia Mainardi
- Dindga McCannon
- Alice Shaddle
- Arden Scott
- Faith Rionggold [sic]
- Sharon Brant
- Daria Dorosh
- Nina Yankowitz
- Rachel bas-Cohain
- Loretta Dunkelman
- Kay Brown
- CeRoser
- Noma Copley
- Martha Edelheit
- Jackie Skyles
- Barbara Zuker [sic]
- Susan Williams
- Judith Bernstein
- Rosemary Mayer
- Maud Boltz [sic]
- Patsy Norvell
- Joan Danziger
- Minna Citron
References
edit- ^ a b "Mary Beth Edelson. Some Living American Women Artists. 1972". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 19 January 2022.
- ^ "Some Living American Women Artists". Center for the Study of Political Graphics. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
- ^ "Direct Access: Edelson comments on the Last Supper" (PDF). Retrieved 21 January 2022.
- ^ "Some Living American Women Artists/Last Supper". Smithsonian American Art Museum. Retrieved 19 January 2022.
Further reading
edit- Object of the Week: Some Living American Women Artists/Last Supper by Elisabeth Smith, SAMBlog, March 9, 2018
- Considering Mary Beth Edelson’s Some Living American Women Artists by Kat Griefen, The Brooklyn Rail, March 2019
- Some Living American Women Artists/Last Supper by Mary Beth Edelson—Art from Us, June 13, 2020