THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT
Ida Applebroog
November 11, 1929 – October 21, 2023
“Betty Friedan had said: Women have a condition that has no name. I realized at a certain point, ‘Yeah, I know what that problem is, and I don’t know what the name is, but I have it.'”
Artist who confronted the violence, coercion and mortality that can simmer beneath everyday relationships with a prolific stream of drawings, paintings, sculptures and videos.
More About Ida:
- Obituary, The New York Times
- Ida Applebroog in “Power” – Season 3 – “Art in the Twenty-First Century,” Art21
- Wikipedia page
- Cited in Barbara Love’s book, Feminists Who Changed America 1963-1975, page 17