Mary Beth Edelson

Louise Creating Her Own Energy

1973

A standing hybrid figure with a black-and-white photo head and yellow painted body with radiating ink wings.
A standing hybrid figure with a black-and-white photo head and yellow painted body with radiating ink wings.

Mary Beth Edelson, Louise Creating Her Own Energy, 1973. Oil, pen and ink, and collaged paper on gelatin silver print, sheet: 10 × 8 in. (25.4 × 20.3 cm) Image: 8 3/4 × 8 in. (22.2 × 20.3 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Drawing Committee 2017.201. © Mary Beth Edelson

Recto

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Date
1973

Classification
Drawings

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

Dimensions
Sheet: 10 × 8 in. (25.4 × 20.3 cm) Image: 8 3/4 × 8 in. (22.2 × 20.3 cm)

Accession number
2017.201

Series
Woman Rising, 1973

Credit line
Purchase, with funds from the Drawing Committee

Rights and reproductions
© Mary Beth Edelson

API
artworks/57038



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