Ida Applebroog
Fendi Progeny, 2005*
Digital print
12 x 25 inches
acquired 2006
Promise I Won’t Die?, 1987
Lithograph, linocut, watercolor on paper
36 x 38 inches
acquired 2010
Biography
Born 1929 in Bronx, New York.
Applebroog attended NY State Institute of Applied Arts and Sciences (1949). She moved to Chicago in 1956, later attending the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1968). In 1973 she taught at the University of California in San Diego before returning to NY. Starting in 1977 she circulated a series of self-published books through the mail, and joined Heresies/A Feminist Journal on Art and Politics. Applebroog’s work is in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, Guggenheim Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Corcoran Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of Art, and others.
Awards
1980, 1985 Recipient of the Artist’s Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts
1983 Participant in the Creative Artists in Public Service Program, New York State Council on the Arts
1990 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship
1998 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship
2008 Women’s Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award in 2008
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