Women's Equality
Date1975
Mediumlithograph on paper
DimensionsImage: 41 1/2 × 29 5/8 inches (105.4 × 75.2 cm)
Sheet: 41 1/2 × 29 5/8 inches (105.4 × 75.2 cm)
Matted: 36 × 48 inches (91.4 × 121.9 cm)
Portfolio/SeriesKent Bicentennial portfolio, "Spirit of Independence"
Credit LineGift of Lorillard, a Division of Loew’s Theatres, Inc.
Object number1977.21
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Label TextMaría Sol Escobar, who later went solely by her nickname Marisol, often confounded critics by veering between the genres of Pop and folk art and taking leaves of absences from the art world for years at a time. Her work, which was often sculpture-based, was politically observant and frequently considered the constraints of being a woman in society.
By picturing Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, two fierce advocates for women’s suffrage, the print 'Women’s Equality' considers the role that women played in extending the values of independence and equality for all citizens of the United States. Marisol chose to portray these two women "because of their leadership in the struggle for women’s rights, and because I like their faces―strong, determined, with very intense eyes." Playing with positive and negative space and intense bursts of shading, the defined faces of the women and their conjoined hands become focal points as a hand reaches up from below to join or call attention to their united front.
