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Tender Buttons: Tearful Flight/Trying/Solo Flight/Missing

Close up of Tender Buttons: Tearful Flight/Trying/Solo Flight/Missing

Four painted plates are displayed vertically against a mauve background within a brown frame. Each plate is painted with colorful swirls of pink, blue, brown, sand, and green. The painted shapes suggest abstract landscapes or organic forms.
Four painted plates are displayed vertically against a mauve background within a brown frame. Each plate is painted with colorful swirls of pink, blue, brown, sand, and green. The painted shapes suggest abstract landscapes or organic forms.
Judy Chicago, Tender Buttons: Tearful Flight/Trying/Solo Flight/Missing, 1975; China-paint on porcelain, 4 3/4 x 15 in.; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Gift of Dr. Marvin L. Radoff; © Judy Chicago/Artists Rights Society, New York

Artwork Details

  • Artist

    Judy Chicago

  • Title

    Tender Buttons: Tearful Flight/Trying/Solo Flight/Missing

  • Date

    1975

  • Medium

    China-paint on porcelain

  • Dimensions

    4 3/4 x 15 in.

  • Donor Credit

    Gift of Dr. Marvin L. Radoff

  • Image Credit

    © Judy Chicago/Artists Rights Society, New York

  • On Display

    No

The Artist, Judy Chicago

After more than four decades, Judy Chicago continues to be an influential feminist artist, author, and educator. Her work helped establish the Feminist Art Movement of the 1970s.
A light-skinned older woman with short purple-and-white hair smiles slightly, arms out to the side. She wears a blue sequin top with long black lace sleeves, a gold necklace, hoop earrings, and blue glasses. The sky and tree branches are behind her.