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Nancy Spero (1926 - 2009) was active/lived in New York, Ohio. Nancy Spero is known for Female symbolism, modernist caligraphy, collage.
A non-traditional, revolutionary artist, Nancy Spero focuses her art work on challenging questions about women as artists and women as women. This subject seemed especially poignant in her paintings in a December 2005 gallery exhibition,
Cri du Coeur
, in Chelsea, because it closely followed the death of her long-time husband, Leon Golub. The exhibition showcased her "ability to combine hand-painted color with silk-screened images. . . .The color starts out light and shifts to increasingly toxic tones of red, brown, blue and black, shadowing, overtaking and obliterating the figures while also evoking earth, blood, smoke and sorrow." (Smith)
She trained at the Art Institute of Chicago and began in the 1960s as a figurative abstract artist with a political bent. She worked on paper rather than canvas as a symbol of rebelling against the prescribed methods of the art world and addressed unpleasant themes such as the atom bomb and wa ...
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Leon Golub
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Richard Tuttle
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Jean Lucebert
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Kenny Scharf
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Enrico Donati
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Tony Cragg
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Jannis Kounellis
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Kiki Smith
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Ray (Edward) Johnson
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Guenther Uecker
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Louise Bourgeois
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Ludwig R Sander
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Leon Polk Smith
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Lynda Benglis
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George Warren Rickey
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Joseph Cornell
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George Condo
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Eric Fischl
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Elizabeth Murray
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Takashi Murakami
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Pavel (Tchelitchev) Tchelitchew
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Isamu Noguchi
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Thomas Schutte
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Raymond Parker
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Sheldon Museum of Art (Lincoln, NE)
Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago (Chicago, IL)
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY ART MUSEUM & PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVE (Berkeley, CA)
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