Maude Boltz

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

Maude Boltz
Born1939 (1939)
Pottsville, Pennsylvania
Died2017 (aged 77–78)
NationalityAmerican
Known forfiber artist

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]

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