Mary Beth Edelson

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American artist and pioneer in the Feminist art movement, deemed one of the notable "first generation feminist artists." She was also active in the civil rights movement. Edelson is a printmaker, book artist, collage artist, painter, photographer, performance artist, and author. Her works have been shown at museums such as the Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Museum of Contemporary Art. She had two children: a daughter from her second marriage and a son from her third marriage to Alfred H. Edelson, the CEO of Rytex. Robert Stackhouse, also an artist, lived with Mary Beth Edelson for 27 years in her live/work loft in Soho following the end of her third marriage. Mary Beth Edelson resided in New York during the mid-1950s. She later lived in Indianapolis, where she owned an art gallery, until 1968 when she moved to Washington, D.C. Edelson returned to New York in the 1970s. Link to Wikipedia biography