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Marisol

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Marisol (1930 - 2016) was active/lived in New York / France, Venezuela.  Marisol is known for Pop and folk art imagery, assemblage, modernist genre.

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 Marisol, a Venezuelan-American artist who fused Pop Art imagery and folk art in assemblages and sculptures that, together with her mysterious, Garboesque persona, made her one of the most compelling artists on the New York scene in the 1960s, died on Saturday in Manhattan. She was 85.

The cause was pneumonia, Julia M. Ruthizer, her executor, said.

María Sol Escobar, who adopted Marisol as her name when she began exhibiting in New York in the late 1950s, introduced a distinctive new element to the emerging Pop Art lexicon. Influenced equally by pre-Columbian art and the assemblages of Robert Rauschenberg, she began constructing tableaus of carved wooden figures embellished with drawings, fabric and found objects.

The Family, exhibited at the Stable Gallery in 1962, showed a painted-wood family reminiscent of Dorothea Lange’s photographs of the Dust Bowl: a seated mother holding a baby, her three children standing at her side, all staring stiffly at the viewer   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 9391 characters.]  Artist bio

Artist auction records

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Research resources

.  askART lists Marisol in 2 of its research Essays. Marisol has 5 artist signature examples available in our database.

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Facts about Marisol

   Publications  Book References:  89
Magazine References:  2

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2 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Marisol
Magazine Article Date Author Color
Art in America Eye of the Heart March 2008 Diehl, Carol Yes
ARTnews Reviews December 1995 Editors, Art News Yes
89 Book References for Marisol
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2004 McGowan, Alison C (Editor) Who's Who in American Art, 2004 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition) 1512 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1999 Steiner, Raymond J The Art Students League of New York: A History (Students) 187 No
1997 Madoff, Steven Henry (editor) Pop Art A Critical History 420 Yes
1997 Martin, Elizabeth; Vivian Meyer Female Gazes: Seventy-Five Women Artists 176 Yes
1997 Whiting, Cecile A Taste for Pop Pop Art, Gender and Consumer Culture 304 Yes
1996 Barbara and Peter Toohil Accents on Artists A fact-filled pronunciation guide. Over 800 artist’s names you should know… 363 Yes
1995 Fineberg, Jonathan Art Since 1940 Strategies of Being 496 Yes
1994 Craven, Wayne American Art History and Culture 687 Yes
1994 Reynolds, Donald Martin Masters of American Sculpture: The Figurative Tradition From the American Renaissance to the Millenium 275 Yes
1993 Bowker R R Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts) 1473 No
1992 Seitz, William C Art in the Age of Aquarius, 1955-1970 250 Yes
1991 Wheeler, Daniel Art Since Mid Century 1945 to the Present 344 Yes
1990 Chadwick, Whitney Women, Art, and Society 384 Yes
1990 Gelburd, Gail/Geri De Paoli The Trans Parent Thread Asian Philosophy in Recent American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 124 Yes
1990 Livingstone, Marco Pop Art A Continuing History 271 Yes
1990 Rubinstein, Charlotte Streifer American Women Sculptors: A History of Women Working in Three Dimensions 638 No
1989 Naylor, Colin (editor) Contemporary Artists (3rd Edition) 1059 No
1989 Sparks, Esther Universal Limited Art Editions History and Catalogue/the 1st 25 Years 552 Yes
1988 Quirarte, Jacinto The Latin American Spirit: Art and Artists in the United States, 1920-1970 343 Yes
1988 Wye, Deborah Commited to Print
(Exhibition catalog)		 120 No
1987 Cummings, Paul Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition) 653 No
1987 Feldman, Edmund Burke Varieties of Visual Experience (3rd edition) 528 Yes
1987 Heller, Nancy Women Artists An Illustrated History 224 Yes
1987 Mecklenburg, Virginia Modern American Realism The Sara Roby Foundation Collection
(Exhibition catalog)		 148 Yes
1987 Stich, Sidra Made In U S A An Americanization in Modern Art '50s & 60s
(Exhibition catalog)		 280 Yes
1987 Voss, Frank S Man of the Year A Time Honored Tradition 64 Yes
1986 Chetham, Charles; David Grose A Guide to the Collections: Smith College Museum of Art 312 Yes
1986 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986 1292 No
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1986 Piazza, Paul/Marshall Sprague Colorado Springs Fine Art Center A History and Selections from the Collection 210 Yes
1986 Plante, Michael; Christopher Campbell, Megan Fox, et all Definitive Statements: American Art 1964-66 Brown University Department of Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 181 No
1986 Stein, Harvey Artists Observed 160 No
1985 Miller, Dorothy C With an Eye to American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 16 No
1985 Smithsonian Institution National Portrait Gallery Collection Illustrated Checklist 461 No
1984 Craven, Wayne Sculpture in America (new and revised edition) 782 No
1984 Marks, Claude World Artists 1950-1980 912 No
1984 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Dictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to Present 656 No
1983 Kaplan, Ellen Prints A Collector's Guide 253 No
1982 Rubinstein, Charlotte Streifer American Women Artists from Early Times to the Present 560 Yes
1981 Osborne, Harold The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Art 656 Yes
1981 Rugoff, Milton The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art 669 Yes
1980 Johnson, Una E American Prints and Printmakers A Chronicle of Over 400 Artists 266 Yes
1980 Minnesota Museum of Art West '80 Art and the Law
(Exhibition catalog)		 80 Yes
1979 Brown, Milton W (others) American Art Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Decorative Arts 616 Yes
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 1 (Sculpture, the West etc) 730 No
1979 Towle, Tony/Peter Gale Contemporary American Prints
(Exhibition catalog)		 64 Yes
1979 Withers, Josephine Women Artists in Washington Collections
(Exhibition catalog)		 144 Yes
1978 Adams, Hugh Art of the Sixties 80 Yes
1978 Daniels, Florence Why Art? A Guide to Viewing Contemporary American Art 222 No
1978 Independent Curators Inc The Sense of the Self From Self Portrait to Autobiography
(Exhibition catalog)		 36 No
1978 Lipman, Jean/Richard Marshall Art About Art 176 Yes
1977 Ekdahl, Janis American Sculpture A Guide to Information Sources 260 No
1977 Societe des Expositions American Art in Belgium
(Exhibition catalog)		 175 Yes
1976 Anderson, Dennis R (Introductory Essay) Three Hundred Years of American Art In The Chrysler Museum
(Exhibition catalog)		 270 Yes
1976 Glubok, Shirley The Art of America Since World War II 48 No
1976 Institute of Contemporary Art A Selection of American Art The Skowhegan School 1946-1976 194 No
1976 McCabe, Cynthia Jaffee The Golden Door Artist-Immigrants of America, 1876-1976 432 Yes
1976 Milwaukee Art Center From Foreign Shores Three Centuries...Foreign Born American Masters
(Exhibition catalog)		 186 Yes
1976 Tyler, Ron The Image of America in Caricature & Cartoon
(Exhibition catalog)		 228 Yes
1975 Editor, Smithsonian Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection 0 No
1975 Fleischman, Lawrence A.(Intro); Lawrence Campbell (Foreward) The Art Students League of New York Anniversarly Exhibition 100 Artists, Kennedy Galleries
(Exhibition catalog)		 284 No
1975 Nemser, Cindy Art Talk Conversations with 12 Women Artists 367 No
1974 Busch, Julia A Decade of Sculpture The 1960s 236 Yes
1973 Collins, Jim L. Women Artists in America: Eighteenth Century to Present 426 No
1972 Hill, M Brawley Women Historical Survey of Works by Women Artists
(Exhibition catalog)		 60 No
1972 Mondale, Joan Adams Politics in Art 72 Yes
1972 Sandler, Irving (intro) Contemporary Art 1942-72 479 Yes
1971 Bell, David Praeger Encyclopedia of Art (4 volumes) 2139 Yes
1971 Calas, Nicolas and Elena Icons and Images of the Sixties 347 No
1970 Fondation Maeght L'art Vivant aux Etats-Unis
(Exhibition catalog)		 164 Yes
1969 Faulkner, Ray; Edwin Ziegfeld Art Today 542 Yes
1969 National Mus Mod Art, Tokyo Contemporary Art Dialogue between East and West
(Exhibition catalog)		 114 Yes
1969 Philbrook Art Center The American Sense of Reality
(Exhibition catalog)		 56 No
1969 Russell, John/Suzi Gablik Pop Art Redefined
(Exhibition catalog)		 240 Yes
1968 Norman, Jane & Theodore Traveler's Guide to American Art 436 No
1968 Robbins, Daniel/David W Scott An American Collection The Neuberger Collection 463 Yes
1968 Weller, Allen S The Joys and Sorrows of Recent American Art 185 No
1967 Artist in America, Editors The Artist in America 256 Yes
1967 Ashton, Dore Modern American Sculpture 130 Yes
1967 North Carolina Museum of Art North Carolina Collects (loan exhibition N Carolina owned)
(Exhibition catalog)		 192 No
1966 Goodrich, Lloyd Three Centuries of American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 150 Yes
1965 Gerdts, William H Women Artists of America 1707-1964
(Exhibition catalog)		 32 No
1965 Whitney Museum A Decade of American Drawings 8th Exhibition Sponsored by Friends
(Exhibition catalog)		 52 No
1964 Baur, John I H Between the Fairs: 25 Years of American Art 1939-1964
(Exhibition catalog)		 91 Yes
1963 Miller, Dorothy (editor) Americans 1963
(Exhibition catalog)		 112 No
1963 Minneapolis Institute of Art Four Centuries of American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 68 No
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