Wilke, Hannah

(3/7/1940 Butler, NY-1/28/1993) (USA)

   Painter, photographer, sculptor, installation and performance artist, and art teacher. Earned a B.F.A. at the Tyler School of Fine Arts, Temple University, Philadelphia. She was a major early figure in the Women's Art Movement starting in the 1960s. She emphasized vaginal images, often humorous, using her own body as a theme.

   Reproductions: Cinnamon; Merzer, 1975: p. 45 . Untitled [abstract vaginal form]; Nemser, 1975: p. 75 [B]. Venus cushion; 1972; latex; Kincaid, 1975: p. 32 .

   [b]Source: Benezit, vol. 14: p. 907; M. Savitt, "Hannah Wilke: the pleasure principle; Ronald Feldman Fine Arts Gallery, New York," Arts 50, 1 (September 1975): pp. 56-57.