Marisol Escobar
"Woman’s Equality", 1975
Lithograph on paper
Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art Collection
Gift of the Las Vegas Art Museum, 2021; Gift of Lorillard, 1976.
2021.08.013

In 1848, Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton launched the Women’s Rights Movement in the United States with a two-day convention in Seneca Falls, New York. When the Lorillard Tobacco Company approached Marisol Escobar (known mononymously as Marisol) with a request for a print to mark the 1975 U.S. Bicentennial, the artist responded by commemorating the partnership of the two women with a lithograph. Marisol’s other portraits were sometimes satirical, but this picture depicts Mott and Stanton without irony. As with many of the wooden sculptural figures for which the artist is best known, the faces are depicted in detail and there is an emphasis on the position of the hands. Born in France to Venezuelan parents, the artist studied in Los Angeles and Paris before moving to New York where she was recognized for her contributions to the Pop Art movement of the 1960s. She died in 2016 at the age of eighty-five.(DKS)

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Image description:
A hand-drawn image of two elderly women with old-fashioned hairstyles. Their faces are depicted in detail with thin gray lines, while the outlines of their figures are emphasized with explosive bursts of yellow, blue, red, pink, green, and purple. Below them, a single hand emerges from the bottom of the image to point upwards at their intertwined fingers. Both are facing forward. (written by Andrea Noonoo)