GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Nancy Spero was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1926. She attended the University of Colorado, Boulder (1944–1945), received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1949), and studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and Atelier André L’Hote in Paris (1949–1950). In 1951, she married the visual artist Leon Golub (b. 1922), and the couple lived in Chicago until 1959, when Spero and Golub moved to Paris where they lived until 1964. Spero led the feminist art movement in the 1960s, when she began producing unapologetic statements against the pervasive abuse of Western privilege and male dominance. Her work frequently draws imagery and subject matter from historical events such as the torture associated with the 1960s and 1970s regimes in Argentina, Nicaragua, El Salvador, and South Africa, as well as the Holocaust and the Vietnam War. Her figures co-exist in nonhierarchical compositions on canvases and scrolls alike, reinforcing the principles of equality and tolerance.
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DMA label copy, November 2014.
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Photograph of Nancy Spero in her studio, in New York City, 1973.
Source: The War Series, Charta, Wikimedia Commons, Fair Use, accessed July 14, 2016
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WEB RESOURCES
- Art 21~Learn more about Nancy Spero and her work.
- Stanford University Digital Collections~Watch a video interview with Nancy Spero.
- Jewish Women's Archive~Read and article about Nancy Spero.
- The Brooklyn Rail~Read an interview with Nancy Spero.
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General Description
Nancy Spero was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1926. She attended the University of Colorado, Boulder (1944–1945), received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1949), and studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and Atelier André L’Hote in Paris (1949–1950). In 1951, she married the visual artist Leon Golub (b. 1922), and the couple lived in Chicago until 1959, when Spero and Golub moved to Paris where they lived until 1964. Spero led the feminist art movement in the 1960s, when she began producing unapologetic statements against the pervasive abuse of Western privilege and male dominance. Her work frequently draws imagery and subject matter from historical events such as the torture associated with the 1960s and 1970s regimes in Argentina, Nicaragua, El Salvador, and South Africa, as well as the Holocaust and the Vietnam War. Her figures co-exist in nonhierarchical compositions on canvases and scrolls alike, reinforcing the principles of equality and tolerance.
Adapted from
DMA label copy, November 2014.
Fun Facts
Archival Resources
(digitized/non-digitized)
Web Resources
- Art 21~Learn more about Nancy Spero and her work.
- Stanford University Digital Collections~Watch a video interview with Nancy Spero.
- Jewish Women's Archive~Read and article about Nancy Spero.
- The Brooklyn Rail~Read an interview with Nancy Spero.
Notes
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