The Women Take the Floor (MFA)

Dropping Susan off at Mass Eye and Ear for a  check-up, I went by the Museum of Fine Arts, had lunch, and then visited the American Wing, third floor for a superb exhibit of female artists that had profound effects on contemporary art.  Here is a sampling.

Alice Neel, American, 1900-1984

"Linda Nochlin and Daisy" 1973

Left: Ruth Asawa, American, 1926-2013

"Unitled (S 407 Hanging Five-lobed Continuous Form within Form with Two Spheres" about 1952

Right: Kay Sekimachi, American, born in 1926

"Amiyose V" 1986  Woven nylon 6 monofilament

sorry, deleted title

Anni Albers, American (born in Germany), 1899-1994

""Dotted Weaving" 1959

Lenore Tawney, American, 1907-2007

"The Fountain of Word and Water", 1963

Olga de Amaral, Colombian, born in 1932

Strata II,  2007

Linen plain weave, gesso, acrylic and gold leaf

Georgia O'Keeffe, American, 1887-1986

"Fishhook from Hawaii No. 2" 1939

Louise Nevelson, American, 1899-1988

"Figure",1953-55

Rice Periera, American, 1902-1971

"Seven Red Squares" 1951

Lee Bontecou, American, born in 1973

"Fifth Stone (Black)" 1964

Lithograph

Elizabeth Murray, American, 1940-2007

"Undoing", 1989-90

Lithograph and etching on three-layered sheets of irregularly shaped paper

Toshiko Takaezu, American, 1922-2011

Grace Hartigan, American, 1922-2008

"Masquerade" 1954