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Poster, Do Women Have to be Naked to Get into the Met. Museum?, 1989
This is a poster. It was designed by Guerrilla Girls. It is dated 1989 and we acquired it in 2009. Its medium is photo-offset lithograph on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
The Guerrilla Girls, founded in 1985, are a group of anonymous female graphic designers who create unique combination of content and eye catching graphics to present feminist viewpoints in a sly, ironic way. Do Women Have to be Naked to Get into the Met. Museum? is proposed for acquisition along with another Guerrilla Girls poster; the pair would be the first posters by this design group to enter the collection.
This object was featured in our Object of the Day series in a post titled Guerilla Feminism.
This object was
donated by
Marc Benda and Sara Benda.
It is credited Gift of Sara and Marc Benda.
Our curators have highlighted 13 objects that are related to this one. Here are three of them, selected at random:
- Poster, Blues Project, 1967
- offset lithograph on white wove paper.
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie J. Schreyer.
- 1979-34-39
![Poster depicts the partial black silhouette of a nude woman bending backwards, with contours in white, berry-red, and turquoise. Text in lower left: [in berry-red] Milton Glaser Exhibition / [in turquoise] Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts / de Belgique Arte Moderne / [in berry-red] Place Royal, 1/1000 Bruxelles / Oct. 15 to nov. 21, 1976.](https://images.collection.cooperhewitt.org/49866_4cfe85936f5d610d_n.jpg "Poster depicts the partial black silhouette of a nude woman bending backwards, with contours in white, berry-red, and turquoise. Text in lower left: [in berry-red] Milton Glaser Exhibition / [in turquoise] Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts / de Belgique Arte Moderne / [in berry-red] Place Royal, 1/1000 Bruxelles / Oct. 15 to nov. 21, 1976.")
- Poster, Milton Glaser Exhibition, Musées Royeaux des Beaux Arts de Belgique,...
- offset lithograph.
- Gift of Milton Glaser.
- 1979-42-3
![Cropped photo of the wide-eyed face of a woman; her eyes brim red and her lips, hair and sunglasses are yellow. Text on her cheek: NUDE / NUDE / TOTALLY / NUDE. Upper right, in blue: PUBLIC THEATER [logo]. Lower margin, in blue: WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY ANDREA MARTIN . DIRECTED BY WALTER BOBBIE.](https://images.collection.cooperhewitt.org/87895_cb732db216f39c9b_n.jpg "Cropped photo of the wide-eyed face of a woman; her eyes brim red and her lips, hair and sunglasses are yellow. Text on her cheek: NUDE / NUDE / TOTALLY / NUDE. Upper right, in blue: PUBLIC THEATER [logo]. Lower margin, in blue: WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY ANDREA MARTIN . DIRECTED BY WALTER BOBBIE.")
- Poster, Nude Nude Totally Nude, 1996
- offset lithograph on paper.
- Gift of Pentagram.
- 1997-99-3
Its dimensions are
Image: 27.5 × 71.1 cm (10 13/16 in. × 28 in.)
It is inscribed
Printed in black ink: Do women have to be naked to get into the Met. Museum?; printed in black and red inks, below: Less than 5% of the artists in the Modern/ Art sections are women, but 85%/ of the nudes are female./ Guerrilla Girls Conscience of the Art World/ www.guerrillagirls.com.
Cite this object as
Poster, Do Women Have to be Naked to Get into the Met. Museum?, 1989; Designed by Guerrilla Girls (United States); USA; photo-offset lithograph on paper; Image: 27.5 × 71.1 cm (10 13/16 in. × 28 in.); Gift of Sara and Marc Benda; 2009-20-2
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition How Posters Work.
