Mary Beth Edelson

Louise Creating Her Own Energy
1973

A mixed-media artwork featuring a stylized female figure with a photographic head and a drawn, brightly colored body in yellow and black. The figure appears to be in a dynamic, superhero-like pose against an expressive, scribbled background. The artist's name, Mary Beth Edelson, is written at the bottom right.
A mixed-media artwork featuring a stylized female figure with a photographic head and a drawn, brightly colored body in yellow and black. The figure appears to be in a dynamic, superhero-like pose against an expressive, scribbled background. The artist's name, Mary Beth Edelson, is written at the bottom right.

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Date
1973

Classification
Drawings

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

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

Accession number
2017.201

Series
Woman Rising, 1973

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Drawing Committee

Rights and reproductions
© Mary Beth Edelson

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artworks/57038

Mary Beth Edelson
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