Mary Beth Edelson

Zipper Sheela: Stepping Out

1973

Nude figure with painted mask and yellow-orange wings stands with arms raised and torso opening.
Nude figure with painted mask and yellow-orange wings stands with arms raised and torso opening.

Mary Beth Edelson, Zipper Sheela: Stepping Out, 1973. Oil, pen and ink, wax crayon, collaged paper and glitter on gelatin silver print, sheet: 10 × 8 in. (25.4 × 20.3 cm) Image: 10 × 8 in. (25.4 × 20.3 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Drawing Committee 2017.200. © Mary Beth Edelson

Recto

Not on view

Date
1973

Classification
Drawings

Medium
Oil, pen and ink, wax crayon, collaged paper and glitter on gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Sheet: 10 × 8 in. (25.4 × 20.3 cm) Image: 10 × 8 in. (25.4 × 20.3 cm)

Accession number
2017.200

Series
Woman Rising, 1973

Credit line
Purchase, with funds from the Drawing Committee

Rights and reproductions
© Mary Beth Edelson

API
artworks/57037



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