Word: nevelson
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...National Museum of Women in the Arts is a virtuous bore. Until ten years ago, with a few resolute exceptions like Georgia O'Keeffe, Mary Cassatt and Louise Nevelson, women artists were shabbily treated by American museums and either omitted from their collections or treated as token presences. The idea that art by women was necessarily second rate lingered discreetly in some quarters through the '70s. Today it is gone, at least in America. Apart from political enlightenment, one of the things that killed it was the growth of the art market. Now that any list of collectors' favorites...
...Louise Nevelson, sculptor...
Russian-born sculptor Louise Nevelson is known both for her earlier interior sculptures in painted wood and for her more recent outdoor sculptures in metal, one of which was unveiled Tuesday at a ceremony at the Law School...
...Nevelson, who currently works in New York, is considered one of the foremost living sculptors. Her work, which is broadly categorized as surrealist, is represented in numerous permanent collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Princeton University, and Brandeis University...
...year-old Nevelson developed sculpture through processes that could have an unexpected power, not framed by conventions of human figures," Neil J. Levine, chairman of the Fine Arts Department, said this week...