Birth

Nancy Spero

1960

Watercolor on paper

Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston

Throughout her more than sixty years as an artist, Nancy Spero (Born 1926 in Cleveland; died 2009 in New York) maintained a commitment to socially and politically engaged art. In her paintings, collages, prints, drawings, and murals, she expressed stances that were antiwar, antiviolence, and, most notably, feminist. Spero was a member of a number of artist-activist groups, including the Art Workers Coalition, Women Artists in Revolution, and the A.I.R. Gallery, which dedicated itself to art by women. She consistently sought to meet what she considered to be the social obligations of the artist. Determined to advance the representati