Maude Boltz (1939-2017) was an American artist and co-founder of the A.I.R. Gallery.

Biography

Boltz was born in 1939 in Pottsville, Pennsylvania. She attended the Philadelphia College of Arts and

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. In 1972 Boltz co-founded the A.I.R. Gallery, a female artists cooperative gallery in New York City. In 1978 Boltz's work was included in a show at

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entitled ''Overview: An Exhibition in Two Parts by the A.I.R. Gallery''. She died in 2017. Her image is included in the iconic 1972 poster Some Living American Women Artists by

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. Boltz's work is in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the

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References

External links

images of Boltz's work
on Women in the Arts Foundation
Remembering Maude Boltz
on the A.I.R. Gallery website {{DEFAULTSORT:Boltz, Maude 1937 births 2017 deaths 20th-century American women artists