"Women's Rights" by Mary Lou Dauray, Watercolor, 22" x 15"
HERSTORY
Menlo College in Atherton, California, put out a call for
artists to enter an exhibition honoring the college and coinciding with its
founding 85 years ago. Artists had to
be juried in and once chosen the artist was given a randomly assigned year
between 1927, the year of Menlo’s founding, and 2013 to respond in an artistic way to the
cultural, historical or personal events of the specified year. I was selected as one of the artists and
given the year 1975. After much
research, I concluded that I would do a painting honoring WOMEN because in 1975
the first International Women’s Conference took place and, in addition, WOMEN were depicted on the cover of TIME
magazine’s 1975 Person of the Year!
The painting referenced a video still taken at that time.
The painting referenced a video still taken at that time.
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