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Mary Beth Edelson obituary

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Some Living American Women Artists/Last Supper. Riffing on the Leonardo da Vinci painting, she replaced the faces of the disciples with those of female artists, among them Yoko Ono, Louise Bourgeois and Helen Frankenthaler.

In the place of Jesus is Georgia O’Keeffe. The work became a poster, widely distributed and iconic to those fighting misogyny in the art world. “The women who really stuck their necks out originally, they tried to cut them off,” Edelson recalled in 2013. “The culture didn’t want what we were doing and culture is good at punishing people who do things it doesn’t want.

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