Jacqueline Skiles

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Jacqueline Skiles
Born1937 (1937)
NationalityAmerican
Known forPrintmaker, Sculptor

Jacqueline Skiles (born 1937) is an American artist. She was a member of Women Artists in Revolution (WAR) and participated in the group's demand that the Whitney Museum include more women in its annual exhibitions.[1][2] She also directed a graphics and silk-screen workshop at the Women's Interart Center.[3]

She was interviewed in 1971 by Doloris Holmes for the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art "Art World in Turmoil" oral history project.[4] Her papers from 1963 through 1980 are in the Archives of American Art.[5]

Her image is included in the iconic 1972 poster Some Living American Women Artists by Mary Beth Edelson.[6]

Skiles' work is in the collection of the International Center of Photography.[7]

References

  1. ^ Broude, Norma; Garrard, Mary D.; Brodsky, Judith K. (1994). The power of feminist art : the American movement of the 1970s, history and impact. New York: H.N. Abrams. p. 90. ISBN 978-0810937321.
  2. ^ Swartz, A. (2011). "Women Artists in Revolution". Oxford Art Online. Grove Art Online. doi:10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.T2214396. ISBN 978-1-884446-05-4. Retrieved 2 February 2022.
  3. ^ Broude, Norma; Garrard, Mary D.; Brodsky, Judith K. (1994). The power of feminist art : the American movement of the 1970s, history and impact. New York: H.N. Abrams. p. 106. ISBN 978-0810937321.
  4. ^ "Oral history interview with Jacqueline Skiles, 1971". Archives of American Art. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2 February 2022.
  5. ^ "Jacqueline Skiles papers, 1963-1980". Archives of American Art. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2 February 2022.
  6. ^ "Some Living American Women Artists/Last Supper". Smithsonian American Art Museum. Retrieved 2 February 2022.
  7. ^ "Jackie Skiles". International Center of Photography. 31 January 2018. Retrieved 2 February 2022.