France / United States · 1911–2010
Louise Bourgeois
Sculptor of memory, motherhood and menace, most famously in giant spiders.
- Subversive
- Monumental
- Self-Representation
Fun fact
Her breakthrough retrospective came at 71, making her one of art history's great late bloomers.
How she made it
Everything to hand: carved marble and wood, welded and cast bronze, latex, plaster, and late in life fabric, her own clothing and household linen cut and sewn into figures, drawings printed on cloth.
- Work
- View of the Coastline of Posilipo at Naples, from Views of Italy, 1817
- Medium
- Hand-colored lithograph on ivory wove paper
- Collection
- Prints and Drawings, Art Institute of Chicago