Nancy Spero Art
American, 1926-2009
Nancy Spero (August 24, 1926 – October 18, 2009) was an American visual artist. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Spero lived for much of her life in New York City. She married and collaborated with artist Leon Golub. As both artist and activist, Nancy Spero had a career that spanned fifty years. She is known for her continuous engagement with contemporary political, social, and cultural concerns. Spero chronicled wars and apocalyptic violence as well as articulating visions of ecstatic rebirth and the celebratory cycles of life. Her complex network of collective and individual voices was a catalyst for the creation of her figurative lexicon representing women from prehistory to the present in such epic-scale paintings and collage on paper as Torture of Women (1976), Notes in Time on Women (1979) and The First Language (1981). In 2010, Notes in Time was posthumously reanimated as a digital scroll in the online magazine Triple Canopy. Spero has had a number of retrospective exhibitions at major museums.(Biography provided by Procuniar Workshop)
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Artist: Nancy Spero
Art Against Apartheid The Year of the South African Woman (Lt Ed only 30 Signed)
By Nancy Spero
Located in New York, NY
Nancy Spero
Art Against Apartheid, 1984
Limited Edition Giclee Print
33 1/10 × 23 1/5 inches
Edition of 30
Hand signed and dated on the front by Nancy Spero; unnumbered from the limi...
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1980s Feminist Nancy Spero Art
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Explicit Explanation
By Nancy Spero
Located in New York, NY
Nancy Spero Explicit Explanation 1998 published in an edition of 25. Printed from a type high zinc relief plate. Screen printing was used for the text.
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Goddess and Mourning Women
By Nancy Spero
Located in New York, NY
Nancy Spero Goddess and Mourning Women 1989 unique example of handprinting and printed collage on paper, measuring 20 by 17 inches
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1980s Feminist Nancy Spero Art
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Paper, Pencil, Color, Monoprint
Crying Woman / Fertility Figure
By Nancy Spero
Located in New York, NY
Unique work made from handprinting and printed collage on paper.
Category
1980s Feminist Nancy Spero Art
Materials
Mixed Media, Printer's Ink, Handmade Paper, Pencil, Monoprint
Thou Shalt Not Kill (The Sixth Commandment)
By Nancy Spero
Located in New York, NY
Nancy Spero
Thou Shalt Not Kill (The Sixth Commandment), 1987
9 Color lithograph and letterpress on Dieu Donne handmade paper
24 × 18 inches
Edition AP 2/15
Signed and numbered AP 2/15, aside from the regular edition of 84
Printed by Peter Kruty, Dan Stack and Judy Solodkin
Unframed with deckled edges
This nine color lithograph and letterpress on Dieu Donne handmade paper is a signed, dated and numbered Artist's Proof, numbered AP 2/15, aside from the regular edition of 84. It was created as part of the 1987 portfolio "The Ten Commandments", in which ten top Jewish American artists were each invited to choose an Old Testament commandment to interpret in contemporary lithographic form. The "Chosen" artists were, in order of Commandment: Kenny Scharf, Joseph Nechvatal...
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Airborne
By Nancy Spero
Located in New York, NY
Nancy Spero
Airborne, 1998
Mixed Media: Silkscreen with collage additions on Somerset velvet paper
30 × 22 inches
Edition of 50
Signed, dated and numbered from the limited edition of only 50 on the front
Unframed
Very poignant imagery: an airborne angel grabs the hand of a nude female; underneath are figures that recall the four horsemen of the apocalypse...
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1990s Abstract Nancy Spero Art
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Mixed Media, Screen
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