Miriam Schapiro: Works on Paper,

A Thirty Year Retrospective
Exhibition dates: September 4 through November 24, 1999

At the Art Museum of Missoula

Few artists occupy a more imposing position in the history of
contemporary art than Miriam Schapiro. Through the
extraordinary body of work she has created over the past half
century, and the example she has set for women artists
everywhere as a leading figure in the feminist art movement, Ms. Schapiro has had a profound impact on the art world.

While the title of the exhibition indicates thirty years of the artist’s work, it really includes somewhat more than that. And while it focuses on works on paper, for an artist who is famous for experimentation with different media and the use of both new and traditional materials, it just as equally provides almost a full survey of her work, her development as an artist, her thinking and ideas about art and an opportunity to see why Miriam occupies the important and richly deserved position she has achieved in the world of art today.

-- Robert Yassin, Executive Director, Tucson Museum of
Art; excerpted from the introduction of the exhibition
catalogue Miriam Schapiro: Works on Paper: A Thirty Year
Retrospective