Maude Boltz Explained

Maude Boltz
Birth Place:Pottsville, Pennsylvania
Nationality:American
Field:fiber artist

Maude Boltz (1939-2017) was an American artist and co-founder of the A.I.R. Gallery.

Biography

Boltz was born in 1939 in Pottsville, Pennsylvania.[1] [2] She attended the Philadelphia College of Arts and Yale University. In 1972 Boltz co-founded the A.I.R. Gallery, a female artists cooperative gallery in New York City.[3] [4] In 1978 Boltz's work was included in a show at MoMA PS1 entitled Overview: An Exhibition in Two Parts by the A.I.R. Gallery.[5] She died in 2017.[4]

Her image is included in the iconic 1972 poster Some Living American Women Artists by Mary Beth Edelson.[6]

Boltz's work is in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum[2] and the Whitney Museum of American Art.[7]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Maude Boltz . ArtNet . 3 February 2022.
  2. Web site: Maude Boltz . Smithsonian American Art Museum . 3 February 2022.
  3. Book: Broude . Norma . Norma Broude . Garrard . Mary D. . Mary Garrard . The power of feminist art : the American movement of the 1970s, history and impact . 1994 . H.N. Abrams . New York . 978-0810937321 . 108.
  4. Web site: Maude Boltz . A.I.R. . 3 February 2022.
  5. Web site: Overview: An Exhibition in Two Parts by the A.I.R. Gallery . The Museum of Modern Art . 3 February 2022 . en.
  6. Web site: Some Living American Women Artists/Last Supper . Smithsonian American Art Museum . 3 February 2022.
  7. Web site: Maude Boltz . Whitney Museum of American Art . 3 February 2022 . en.

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