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Artist Marisol (Escobar) American (born France), 1930-2016
Date1965-1966
DimensionsDimensions variable
MediumAssemblage of 15 freestanding, life-size figures and three wall panels, with painted wood and carved wood, mirrors, plastic, television set, clothes, shoes, glasses, and other accessories.
ClassificationSculpture
Credit LineMuseum Purchase Fund, by exchange
Object number
2005.42C
Not on View
Collections
  • Sculpture
Published References

Kessler, Elizabeth, Adventures in Values, New York, 1970, p. 384.

Bullock, Alan, The Twentieth Century: A Promethean Age, London, Thames & Hudson, 1971.

Haggerty, Susan, Man and His Fiction, New York, 1973, cover.

Barrs, Myra, Identity, West Drayton and Middlesex, Penguin Education Series, 1973.

David, Clive, "Parties," Holiday, Indianapolis, 1975.

Fine, Elsa Honig, Women and Art, London, 1978, p. 220.

The Art of Man, Washington, D.C., The National Gallery of Art, 1985.

Epstein, Vivian, History of Women Artists for Children, Denver, 1987, p. 25.

Martin, Mary Abbe, " Artist Regroups her 15 Mingling Figures Adding a Bit of Tourism," Minneapolis Star Tribune, March 4, 1988, pp. 14-15.

Gardner, Paul, "Who is Marisol?", Art News, May 1989, p. 149.

Whiting, Cecile, "Figuring Marisol's Femininities," Revue canadien d'Art, XVII, 1-2, 1991, pp. 78-87.

Boime, Albert, "The Postwar Definition of Self: Marisol's Yearbook Illustrations for the Class of '49," American Art, Spring 1993.

Noguchi, Sawako, ed., Contemporary Great Masters: Marisol, vol. 15, Tokyo, 1993, p. 20.

Brown, Kent, ed., "Marisol," in Highlights for Children, January 1993.

Anger, David, "The Cocktail Party," Minneapolis/St. Paul Magazine, November 1995.

Whiting, Cecile, A Taste for Pop, Cambridge, UK, 1997, p. 227.

Barlow, Margaret. Women Artists, Southport, 1999, p. 271.

The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Museum of Art Masterworks, Toledo, 2009, p. 336-37, repr. (col.) and (dets.).

Reich, Paula, Toledo Museum of Art: Map and Guide, London, Scala, 2009, p. 62, repr. (col.), (dets.)

The Passionate Collector: Robert B. Mayer's Adventures in Art, self-published by the Mayer family, 2011, p. 123 repr.

Hansen, Tone; Lind, Maria, eds. No is Not an Answer: On the Work of Marie-Louise Ekman, Berlin, Sternberg Press, 2013, p. 64-65 repr.

Pacini, Marina, Marisol: Sculptures and Works on Paper, Memphis, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, 2014, pp. 36-37, repr. (col.) p. 37.

Beck, Jessica, Marisol and Warhol take New York, Pittsburgh, The Andy Warhol Museum, 2021, pp. 24-28, repr. (col.) p. 25, 113-115.

Exhibition History

New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, Marisol, April 1966, repr. cover.

Art Institute of Chicago, 68th Annual Exhibition, August-October 1966, repr. cover.

Venice, Venezuela Pavilion, XXXIV Bienale di Venezia, May-September 1968.

Rotterdam, Museum Baymans-van-Beuningen, Marisol, November-December 1968, cat. No. 6.

Minneapolis Institute of Art, extended loan, 1975-2005.

The Party
Marisol (Escobar)
1965-1966
The Party
Marisol (Escobar)
1965-1966
The Party
Marisol (Escobar)
1965-1966
The Party
Marisol (Escobar)
1965-1966
The Party
Marisol (Escobar)
1965-1966
The Party
Marisol (Escobar)
1965-1966
The Party
Marisol (Escobar)
1965-1966
The Party
Marisol (Escobar)
1965-1966
The Party
Marisol (Escobar)
1965-1966
The Party
Marisol (Escobar)
1965-1966
The Party
Marisol (Escobar)
1965-1966
The Party
Marisol (Escobar)
1965-1966

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