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... Read full 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... Read full 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... Read full 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. From that point, she dedicated herself to... Read full 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. From that point, she dedicated herself to redefining the role of women in the arts and elevating the status of pattern, craft and the anonymous handiwork... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (50)
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
California Art: 450 Years of Painting & Other Media
1998
Moure, Nancy Dustin Wall
560 pages (color)
Accents on Artists A fact-filled pronunciation guide. Over 800 artist’s names you should know…
1996
Barbara and Peter Toohil
363 pages (color)
The Fate of a Gesture Jackson Pollock and Postwar American Art
1996
Ratcliff, Carter
352 pages (color)
Art of the Postmodern Era From the Late 1960s to the Early 1990s
1996
Sandler, Irving
636 pages (color)
Art Since 1940 Strategies of Being
1995
Fineberg, Jonathan
496 pages (color)
Hallmark Art Collections 1995 Acquisitions
1995
Hallmark Cards
10 pages
Printmaking in America Collaborative Prints and Presses 1960-1990
1995
Hansen, Trudy (others)
248 pages (color)
North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century A Biographical Dictionary
1995
Heller, Jules and Nancy G. Heller
612 pages
Art Today
1995
Lucie-Smith, Edward
512 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts)
1993
Bowker R R
1,473 pages
Explorations The Visual Arts since 1945
1991
Hoffman, Katherine
400 pages (color)
Art Since Mid Century 1945 to the Present
1991
Wheeler, Daniel
344 pages (color)
Women, Art, and Society
1990
Chadwick, Whitney
384 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
538 pages
Contemporary Artists (3rd Edition)
1989
Naylor, Colin (editor)
1,059 pages
Making Their Mark: Women Artists Move Into the Mainstream
1988
Rosen, Randy, et al
300 pages (color)
Commited to Print (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Wye, Deborah
120 pages
Transformation of the Avant-Garde The New York Art World 1940-1985
1987
Crane, Diana
194 pages
Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition)
1987
Cummings, Paul
653 pages
Women Artists An Illustrated History
1987
Heller, Nancy
224 pages (color)
Nine Martinis
1987
Hornick, Lita R.
159 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986
1986
Jaques Cattell Press
1,292 pages
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
American Artists: An Illustrated Survey of Leading Contemporary Americans
1985
Krantz, Les
347 pages (color)
American Painting and Sculpture A Concise History
1984
Baigell, Mathew
420 pages
The Pluralist Era: American Art 1968-1981
1984
Robins, Corrine
246 pages (color)
American Art Since 1945
1982
Ashton, Dore
224 pages (color)
The Americans/The Collage (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Contemporary Arts Museum
143 pages (color)
American Artists on Art from 1940 to 1980
1982
Johnson, Ellen H (editor)
274 pages
American Women Artists from Early Times to the Present
1982
Rubinstein, Charlotte Streifer
560 pages (color)
American Paintings at Yale University: An illustrated Checklist (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Stebbins, Theodore/G Gorokhoff
213 pages
Decade Los Angeles Painting in the Seventies (Exhibition catalog)
1981
Art Center College of Design
108 pages (color)
The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Art
1981
Osborne, Harold
656 pages (color)
Miriam Schapiro A Retrospective 1953-1980 (Exhibition catalog)
1980
Gouma-Peterson, Thalia (ed)
122 pages (color)
Art in the Seventies
1980
Lucie-Smith, Edward
128 pages (color)
Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics)
1979
Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel
736 pages
Women Artists in Washington Collections (Exhibition catalog)
1979
Withers, Josephine
144 pages (color)
Artists Look at Art (Exhibition catalog)
1978
Hennessey, William J
60 pages
The New York School The Painters & Sculptors of the Fifties
1978
Sandler, Irving
366 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition
1976
Jaques Cattell Press
756 pages
Originals:American Women Artists
1976
Munro, Eleanor
528 pages (color)
Women Artists in America II
1975
Collins, Jim L.
430 pages
Sunshine Muse Contemporary Art on the West Coast
1974
Plagens, Peter
200 pages (color)
Drawings: Exhibition of Contemporary American Drawings Fort Worth Art Center Museum (Exhibition catalog)
1969
Hopkins, Henry (Preface); Peter Plagens, Essay
84 pages
Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture (Exhibition catalog)
1965
University of Illinois
210 pages
New Directions in American Painting: A Loan Exhibition (Exhibition catalog)