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National Museum of Women in the Arts

From the Collection: Contemporary Figurative Prints

Ida Applebroog, <em>Promise I Won't Die?</em>, 1987; Lithograph, linocut, watercolor on paper, 40 x 51 1/2 x 1 1/2 in.; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Museum purchase: Members' Acquisition Fund; © Ida Applebroog
Sep 2 to Dec 17, 2006

Exhibition Note

Information about this exhibition is limited.

This exhibition features works by Alison Saar, Louise Bourgeois, and other contemporary printmakers.

Featured Artists

Alison Saar
Alison Saar creates artworks that frequently transform found objects to reflect themes of cultural and social identity, history, and religion.
A light-skinned, adult woman speaking with one hand extended and the other touching her neck in a white gallery filled with her colorful artworks depicting African-American women. She has curly gray hair, glasses, and wears a simple, black, sleeveless top and a necklace.
Louise Bourgeois
Louise Bourgeois is considered one of the most inventive and influential sculptors of the 20th century for her use of unconventional materials and allusive psychological content.
Black-and-white photograph of an older woman with her short, dark hair brushed back. Sitting with her left hand raised, her deeply lined face looks off-camera, her eyes squinting slightly and her lips pursed. She wears a gold earring, gold wedding ring and a white shirt.
Lesley Dill
Lesley Dill, a painter, printmaker, sculptor, photographer, and performance artist with an abiding interest in language, typically works with natural materials.
Black-and-white studio portrait of a smiling light-skinned adult woman with medium-length blond hair. She wears round glasses and a black turtleneck sweater.
Marisol
Marisol set herself apart from other Pop artists by humanizing her subjects in her blocky, life-sized sculptural portraits.
A color photograph of a woman with light skin and brown hair crouching indoors next to a large wooden sculptural artwork, painting it with black paint.