Amazing Miriam Schapiro oil canvas. 42 x 33 inches. Provenance: private owner.
Biography: 1923 - 2015. Feminist* artist Miriam Schapiro was born in Toronto, Canada in 1923, growing up in Brooklyn, New York. While in high school in New York City she studied at the Museum of Modern Art and the Federal Art Project.* She studied at the State University of Iowa, receiving three degrees there: a B.A. in 1945, M.A. 1946, and M.F.A. in 1949. She has taught at the State University of Iowa; Parsons School of Design, New York City; University of California, Berkeley; University of San Diego; California Institute of the Arts, Valencia; and the Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia. Schapiro lives and works in New York City and East Hampton, Long Island, New York.Schapiro found success early as a hard-edge geometric* style painter and was categorized as a second-generation Abstract Expressionist.* In 1962 she began to create "shrine paintings", which differed completely from previous works, these consisted of a mirror, a female symbol, a fragment of a great art work, and a crowning arch. These feminist productions were followed by paintings relating to her own sexual life. In her abstract illusionistic work, she often used the computer as a creative tool.

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