About Miriam ("Mimi") Schapiro

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Marian Shapiro, Miriam Shapiro
  • Biography

    Following is The New York Times obituary of the artist.

    "Miriam Schapiro, 91, a Feminist Artist Who Harnessed Craft and Pattern, Dies"
    By William Grimes, June 24, 2015

    Miriam Schapiro, a pioneering feminist artist who, with Judy Chicago, created the landmark installation Womanhouse in Los Angeles in the early 1970s and later in that decade helped found the Pattern and Decoration movement, died on Saturday in Hampton Bays, N.Y. She was 91.

    Her death was confirmed by Judith K. Brodsky, the executor of her estate.

    Ms. Schapiro, who broke through as a second-generation Abstract Expressionist in the late 1950s, embraced feminism in the early 1970s and made it the foundation of her work and career. Fro...

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