© Estate of Miriam Schapiro
Currently not on view
Untitled,
1961
Miriam Schapiro, 1923–2015; born Toronto, Canada; died Hampton Bays, NY
x1976-343
Schapiro is a pioneering feminist artist who gave shape to the Pattern and Decoration movement of the 1970s and founded, with Judy Chicago, the Feminist Art Program at the California Institute of the Arts in 1970. Untitled, made ten years after Schapiro settled in New York City in 1951, is an important transitional work in her shift away from Abstract Expressionism toward what she called "femmages," collages created with pieces of sewn fabric. In works such as Untitled, Schapiro begins to mine a specifically female iconography, using shapes suggestive of fertility and creativity as well as of growth and metamorphosis.
More About This Object
Information
Title
Untitled
Dates
1961
Maker
Medium
Watercolor, gouache, and graphite
Dimensions
25.6 x 32.3 cm (10 1/16 x 12 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
Anonymous gift
Object Number
x1976-343
Signatures
Signed and dated in graphite, lower right: M. Schapiro '61
Inscription
in graphite, on mount lower left: For Helen - Summer of '62 - P.T. Love, Mimi
Culture
Type
Materials
Subject
- "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1976," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 36, no. 1 (1977): p. 28-40., p. 38
- John Wilmerding et al., American Art in the Princeton University Art Museum: volume 1: drawings and watercolors, (Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum; New Haven, CT; London: Yale University Press, 2004), p. 313, checklist no. 348
