untitled (dressmakers form and skull), Beatrice Mandelman

Artwork Overview

1912–1998
untitled (dressmakers form and skull), 1950s
Where object was made: United States
Material/technique: oil; cardboard
Dimensions:
Canvas/Support (Height x Width x Depth): 76.6 x 50.4 cm
Canvas/Support (Height x Width x Depth): 30 3/16 x 19 13/16 in
Frame Dimensions (Height x Width x Depth): 31 1/4 x 21 x 2 in
Credit line: Gift from The Mandelman-Ribak Foundation
Accession number: 2014.0004
On display: Michaelis Gallery

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Empowerment

Rather than portraying a female figure, Beatrice Mandelman evokes the female form and raises questions of feminine constructions through her layered, colorful abstraction. The shape of a horse skull appears behind the partially nude form, contrasting the natural skeletal form with an artificial one used for fashioning a mid 20th-century Euro-American woman.

Empowerment

Rather than portraying a female figure, Beatrice Mandelman evokes the female form and raises questions of feminine constructions through her layered, colorful abstraction. The shape of a horse skull appears behind the partially nude form, contrasting the natural skeletal form with an artificial one used for fashioning a mid 20th-century Euro-American woman.

Exhibitions

Susan Earle, curator
Celka Straughn, curator
Kristina Walker, curator
Angela Watts, curator
2022–2027
Susan Earle, curator
Celka Straughn, curator
Kristina Walker, curator
Angela Watts, curator
2022–2027