Poster, Do Women Have to be Naked to Get into the Met. Museum?, 1989

Photo-offset lithograph on paper. Gift of Sara and Marc Benda. 2009-20-2.

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What is this?

At left, nude woman (modeled after Igres' "Odalisque"), reclining on red surface with back to viewer, wearing a gorilla mask and holding a fan in right hand.

Why is this in our collection?

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 is a poster from United States. It is dated 1989 and we acquired it in 2009. Gift of Sara and Marc Benda.

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Its medium is

photo-offset lithograph on paper

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.

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This object was designed by Guerrilla Girls

This object was donated by Sara Benda and Marc Benda

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