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Dotty Attie
Photo by Grace Roselli, Pandora's BoxX Project

For nearly six decades, Dotty Attie (b. 1938) has rigorously engaged the grid as a formal and conceptual tool, masterfully rendering her small-scale drawings and canvases to create cadenced arrangements that disrupt the accepted art historical canon. A presence in the New York art scene since the late 1960s, Attie co-founded A.I.R. Gallery, the first all-female cooperative artists’ gallery and presented seven solo exhibitions with the pioneering cooperative between 1972 and 1986, exhibiting works exclusively in graphite. Departing from her early drawing practice, Attie’s first solo exhibition at P·P·O·W in 1988 marked a shift to working exclusively in series of 6 x 6-inch canvases, a scale she continues to use to this day. From her early graphite works to her more recent paintings, Attie’s lifelong dedication to recontextualizing sourced images with unique text has resulted in a profoundly original body of work that questions societal conventions and reveals to the viewer “the parts of ourselves that we don’t really share with anybody else.” Attie was born in Pennsauken, New Jersey and lives and works in New York City. She received a BFA from the Philadelphia College of Art (1959), a Beckmann Fellowship at the Brooklyn Museum of Art School, New York (1960) and attended the Art Students League, New York (1967). She was awarded a Creative Artists Public Service grant in 1976; National Endowment for the Arts grants in 1976 and 1983; and was inducted into the National Academy of Design in 2013. Her work is in the collections of the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; the Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, CT; the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; the Whitney Museum, New York, NY; and the Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY; among others. Attie’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at P·P·O·W, New York, NY; Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford, CA; Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA; the New Museum, New York, NY; Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX; and A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY, among others. Her work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions including The Grid and the Curve, JTT, New York, NY; Rage, Resist, Rise!, Museum of Sonoma County, Santa Rosa, CA; This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s, curated by Helen Molesworth, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; and Burning Down the House: Building a Feminist Art Collection, curated by Maura Reilly and Nicole Caruth, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, NY. In summer 2023, P·P·O·W presented What Surprised Them Most, Attie's tenth solo exhibition with the gallery. Attie’s work will be included in Scientia Sexualis, Pacific Standard Time at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, in fall 2024.

Dotty Attie

b. 1938, Pennsauken, NJ
Lives and works in New York, NY

Education

1959    
BFA, Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, PA

Solo Exhibitions 

2023
What Surprised Them Most, P·P·O·W, New York, NY

2013    
The Lone Ranger, P·P·O·W, New York, NY
Sometimes a Traveler/There Lived in Egypt, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford, CA

2009    
What Would Mother Say?, P·P·O·W, New York, NY

2007    
Sequel, P·P·O·W, New York, NY

2003    
Sometimes A Traveler, P·P·O·W, New York, NY

1999    
Pierre and Lady Holland: A Suite of Drawings by Dotty Attie, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA

1998    
Fairy Tale /Endings, P·P·O·W, New York, NY

1994    
After Courbet, P·P·O·W, New York, NY

1993    
Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, NY

1992    
Dotty Attie, Montclair Museum of Art, Montclair, NJ

1991    
In the Atelier, P·P·O·W, New York, NY
Galerie Rizzo & Hubbard, Paris, France

1990    
Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC
P·P·O·W, New York, NY
Tyler Galleries, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Elkins Park, PA

1989    
Dotty Attie, Paintings and Drawings, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
Five Tales, University of Missouri, St. Louis, MO

1988    
P·P·O·W, New York, NY

1986    
On Gallery, Osaka, Japan
A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY

1985    
Sanat Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
Valancia Community College, Orlando, FL

1984    
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
Ricardo Barreto Gallery, Boston, MA

1983    
Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC
The New Museum, New York, NY
A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY

1982    
Norton Gallery and School of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, NY

1981    
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
University of Missouri, Kansas City, MO

1980    
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
Portland Center for Visual Artists, Portland, OR
Museum Art School, Portland, OR
Wright State University, Dayton, OH
A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
Douglass College, New Brunswick, NJ

1979    
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS

1978    
University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI
A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY

1977    
Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
O.K. Harris Gallery, New York, NY

1976    
A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY

1974    
Stockton State College, Pomona, NJ
A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY

1972    
A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY

Select Group Exhibitions 

2024
Scientia Sexualis, Pacific Standard Time at Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
To supplement the fragment, Public Gallery, London, UK

2023
Elmgreen & Dragset: READ, Kunsthalle Praha, Prague, Czech Republic 
Drawing As Practice, National Academy of Design, New York, NY
Lover’s Eye, Sargent’s Daughters, Los Angeles, CA

2022
The Difference We've Made, Carter Burden Gallery, New York, NY 
The Grid and the Curve, JTT, New York, NY
Agency: Feminist Art and Power, Museum of Sonoma County, Santa Rosa, CA 
IMPACT 2022: Art that Bears Witness, Bethany Arts Community, Ossining, NY 

2021    
Sweaty Concepts, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA

2020    
Rage, Resist, Rise!, Museum of Sonoma County, Santa Rosa, CA

2017    
Flipping the Script: The Female Body and the Politics of Representation, Richard F. Brush Gallery, St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY
Separation Anxiety, Project ARTspace, New York, NY  
SIZE DOESN’T MATTER: Small Works Bernarducci Meisel Gallery, New York, NY
Feminist Feminine Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY

2016    
Ref•er•enced, Danese Corey, New York, NY

2014    
Sometimes a Traveler: Women, Othered Bodies, and the Colonizing Gaze, Institute of Curatorial Practice at Hampshire College (Digital Exhibition)

2013    
Air Space, Louise McCagg Gallery, Barnard College, New York, NY

2012    
This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA; The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN

2010    
A Torrent of Words: Contemporary Art and Language, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
Heads or Tails, Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, NY

2009    
Beyond Appearances, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY             

2008    
Better Than Ever- Women Figurative Artists of the 70s SoHo Co-ops, Salena Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
The Last Marquise, Kasteel van Gaasbeek D.A.B., Gaasbeek, Belgium
Burning Down the House: Building a Feminist Art Collection, curated by Maura Reilly and Nicole Caruth, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
Islands + Ghettos, Heidelberger Kunstvereins, Heidelberg, Germany
Women of a Certain Age and Beyond, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT

2007    
Women’s Work: Homage to Feminist Art, curated by Cindy Nemser, Tabla Rasa Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2005    
Then as Now, Sordoni Art Gallery, Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, PA

2004    
Perspectives @ 25: A Quarter Century of New Art in Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
Anatomically Correct, 473 Broadway Gallery, New York, NY

2002    
Cowboys, Indians & The Big Picture, McMullen Museum, Boston College, Boston, MA   
Imprint, The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA
The Belles of Amherst, Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, MA

2001    
About Face, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
American Identities: A New Look, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
Recent Acquisitions, Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middleton, CT
Laughter 10 Years After, Beaver College Art Gallery, Beaver College, Beaver, PA 

2000    
Lendpapers; Drawings 1890-1900 and 1990-2000, Neuberger Museum of Art, SUNY Purchase, Purchase, NY
Multiple Visions: Works by Master Printers, The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA
Works from the Collection, Kresge Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
The Figure:  Another Side of Modernism, Newhouse Center of Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY
Nude + narrative, P·P·O·W, New York, NY

1999    
Dreams 1900 –2000, The Equitable Gallery, New York, NY
Contemporary Narratives, Whitney Museum of Art at Champion, Stamford, CT
International Biennial of Graphic Art, International Center of Graphic Art, Ljubljana, Slovnija
Parallel Visions, Soho20 Gallery, New York, NY

1998    
Recent Prints, Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, NY
Taboo:  Repression and Revolt in Modern Art, Galerie St. Etienne, New York, NY

1996    
Naked Truths, University of Hawaii Art Gallery, Honolulu, HI
Women Draw, Gallery 128, New York, NY
Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series: 25 Years, 1971-1996. 25 Years of Feminism–25 Years of Women’s Art, curated by Marianne Ficarra, The State University of New Jersey, Rutgers, New Brunswick, NJ
The New Traditionalists, curated by Maria Porges, University of Oregon Museum of Art, Eugene, OR
Partners in Printmaking: Works from SOLO Impression, National Museum for Women in the Arts, Washington D.C.

1995    
Hobart/William Smith College, Geneva, NY
Going for Baroque, The Contemporary and The Walters Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Crime and Justice, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY

1994   
Fallen Idylls: American Figurative Painting, curated by P·P·O·W and Christopher Sweet, Martin County Council for the Arts, Stuart, FL
New Old Masters, Center for the Arts at Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco, CA
Not for the First Time: The Art of Appropriation, Richard F. Brush Gallery, St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY
Turning Silver into Gold, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH

1993    
Biennial, Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, D.C.
93 Holiday Wishes and Greetings for ‘94, Steinbaum/Krauss Gallery, New York, NY
45th Annual American Academy Purchase Exhibition, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY

1992    
The Frame: Multiplied and Extended, Security Pacific Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA
Beyond Glory: Re-Presenting Terrorism, College of Art, Maryland Institute, Baltimore, MD
Somewhere Between Image and Text, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
Quotations: The Second History of Art, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
Re-Visions, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
Contemporary Icons: From the Sublime to the Fetishistic, Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College, New York, NY

1991    
Cruciformed: Images of the Cross Since 1980, curated by David Rubin, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
Transforming the Western Image, Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA
Art for Your Collection, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Crossing Over Changing Places, Rutgers Center for Innovative Printmaking, New Brunswick, NJ

1990    
Referees, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
The Mechanical Peep Show, P·P·O·W, New York, NY
Contemporary Illustrated Books: Word and Image, 1967-1988, Franklin Furnace, New York, NY
Small Format, Lang & O'Hara, New York, NY
Prints in Part, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
FoxTrot, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
Word as Image, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
Selections from P·P·O·W, NYC, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC

1989    
Gardens Real and Imagined, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, New York, NY
Symbolism, Cooper Union School of Art, New York, NY
Lines of Vision: Drawings by Contemporary Women, Hillwood Art Gallery, Brookville, NY
Art on Paper, Group Exhibition, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC

1988    
Alice and look who else, Through the Looking Glass, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, New York, NY
Art for Your Collection, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Realists: Three from the MacDowell, Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery, Keene State College, Keene, NH

1987    
Drawing: The New Tradition, Huntsville Museum, AL
Works from the Collection, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C.
Ten Major Women Artists, Rockland Center for the Arts, Rockland, NY
Ideas, CDS Gallery, New York, NY
Four Artists, Orion Editions, New York, NY
Messages, Carlo LaMagna Gallery, New York, NY

1986    
Artists Choose Artists, CDS Gallery, New York, NY
Playing House, Berenice Steinbaum Gallery, New York, NY
Short Stories, 1 Penn Plaza, New York, NY
13 Americans, CDS Gallery, New York, NY
Lost/Found: Language, Rosemont College, Philadelphia, PA
Between Metaphor and Fact, Leonarda Di Mauro Gallery, New York, NY

1985    
Narrative Art, MoMA P.S. 1, Long Island City, NY
Masters of Contemporary Drawing, Anderson Gallery, Richmond, VA
The Fine Line, Norton Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
Not Just Black and White, City Gallery, New York, NY
Self Portraits, Gallery at the Plaza, Los Angeles, CA
20 Women, Phoenix Gallery, New York, NY
New York Cooperatives, Kean College, NJ

1984    
Words and Pictures, Bronx Museum, NY
El Arte Narrative, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico
The Verbally Charged Image, Queens Museum, Queens, NY
Large Drawings, Zilkha Gallery, Middletown, CT
Personal Expressions, Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY
Beauty and the Beast, Pratt Graphic Center, New York, NY
Artist's Toys, Vanderwoude Tannanbaum Gallery, New York, NY
Artists Call, Terry Dintenfass Gallery, New York, NY
The New Culture, SUNY Cortland, Cortland, NY
Aspects of New Narrative Art, Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA
United States, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

1983    
Selections from the Print Archives, Zimmerli Museum, New Brunswick, NJ
Walls of the 70's, QCC Art Gallery, New York, NY
The Punch Line, Tweed Gallery, Plainfield, NJ

1982    
Hassam/Speicher Fund Exhibition, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
Artists Books, Katherine Markel Gallery, New York, NY
Subject: Women, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
The Renaissance Revisited, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA
New Acquisitions, Alternative Museum, New York, NY
Five Storytellers, Nexus Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Tales My Mother Never Told Me, Gallery Association of New York State, New York, NY

1981    
New Dimensions in Drawing, Aldrich Museum, CT
Postmodernist Metaphors, Alternative Museum, New York, NY
Deja Vu: Masterpieces Updated, El Paso Museum, El Paso, TX
Childe Hassam Purchase Exhibition, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
Words as Images, Renaissance Society, Chicago, IL
Drawings from the Collection, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
8 by 8, Group Exhibition, Touchstone Gallery, New York, NY
Animals at the Arsenal, Central Park Zoo, New York, NY
Messages, Albright College, Reading, PA
Woman Series Year 10, Douglass College, New Brunswick, NJ

1980    
Drawings: The Pluralist Decade, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Drawings: The Pluralist Decade, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
A Taft Menagerie, Taft Museum, Cincinnati, OH
Acquisitions on Paper, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA
Structure/Narrative/Decoration, Macintosh/Drysdale Gallery, Washington D.C.
Language in the Visual Arts, William Patterson College, Wayne, NJ
Words and Numbers, Summit Art Center, Summit, NJ

1979    
Directions, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C.
Drawings About Drawing Today, Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC
Feministische Kunst, Haags Gemeente-Museum, The Hague, Netherlands
Words and Images, Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Drawing II, Touchstone Gallery, New York, NY
Small is Beautiful, Albright College, Reading, PA
Candidates for Arts Awards, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY

1978    
American Narrative/Story art, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
Narration, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
Artists Look at Art, Spencer Museum of Art, Boston, MA
Drawing Since 1960, Creighton Art Gallery, Omaha, NE
5 Artists, Franklin and Marxhall College, Lancaster, PA
New York Now, Wordworks, San Jose, CA
A.I.R. Drawings, Ginza Kaigaken Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Overview, MoMA P.S. 1, Long Island City, NY

1977    
Kunsterlinnen International 1877-1977, Charlottesburg Palace, Berlin, Germany
Working Papers, Empire State Plaza, Albany, NY
A.I.R. Prints, Katherine Markel Gallery, New York, NY

1976    
3 From NY/Paperworks, Centre Culturel Americain, Paris, France
Drawing Now: 10 Artists, Soho Center for Visual Arts, New York, NY
Works on Paper, Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York, NY
Drawings, Andre Wauters Gallery, New York, NY
Miniatures, Roko Gallery, New York, NY
Reprise, Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY

1975    
Five Americans, Galerie Gerald Piltzer, Paris, France
20th Century Drawings, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Sons and Others, Queens Museum, New York, NY
Art Acquisitions, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
Drawings, Roko Gallery, New York, NY

1974    
A.I.R. Group, Smith College Museum, Northampton, MA
Focus, Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA
A Soho Sampler, Randolph-Macon College, VA
Tight and Loose, State University of New York, Albany, NY

1973    
Artists Books, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA

Select Public Collections 

Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH
Fairleigh Dickinson University, Teaneck, NJ
Montclair Museum of Art, Montclair, NJ
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA
Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN
Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, CT
Williams College, Williamstown, MA
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Yale Museum, New Haven, CT

Artist Lectures and Panels

2009    
The Power of the Co-op Model, Salena Gallery, Long Island University - Brooklyn Campus, Brooklyn, NY

2006    
Art History: Dangerous Inspiration, Art Lab, (with Vincent Desiderio and Julie Heffernan), Staten Island, NY

Fellowships, Grants, and Awards

1987    
Mid-Atlantic States Visual Arts Residency Fellowship

1985    
Creative Artist Fellowship for Japan

1983    
National Endowment for the Arts Grant

1982    
Hassam/Speicher Fund Exhibition Purchase Grant

1981    
Childe Hassam Purchase Exhibition Purchase Prize

1976    
Creative Artists Public Service Grant

1975    
National Endowment for the Arts Grant

1973    
Creative Artists Public Service Grant

Select Bibliography 

2020    
“El sueño americano: Del pop a la actualidad” Caixa Forum, London: Thames & Hudson Ltd.

2010    
F5 Magazine Russia, February 2010

2007    
Baker, R.C. “Dotty Attie,” The Village Voice, March 30, 2007.
“Dotty Attie,” The New Yorker. April 16, 2007. p. 24.
Yung, Susan. “Big Apple Bites: March 2007,” Culturevulture.net. March 2007. http://www.culturevulture.net/etc/bigapple%203-07.htm

2004    
Eleanor Heartney, “Dotty Attie at P.P.O.W,” Art in America, January, p. 106.

2003    
“Art: Dottie Attie”, Village Voice, May 7, 2003.
Edward J. Sozanski, “A Blitz to Use Billboards, Coffee Cups,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, September, p. B9.   
Amy Kroin, “Equal Time,” The Valley Advocate, July 4, p. 19.
Max Nicholas, “Nude Descending a Bus Shelter,” Philadelphia Magazine, August 27.
Edward J. Sozanski, “To Reach Public, Art Goes on the Road,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, August 28.
Lori Hill, “Prints and the Revolution,” Philadelphia Citypaper, August 29.
Roberta Fallon, “Your Ad Here,” Philadelphia Weekly, September 3.
“Resistance and Refusal Mean Consent,” The Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine, November 10.
“Paper Goes Public,” Art on Paper, November.
Catalogue, “Imprint: A Public Art Project,” The Print Center, Philadelphia

2002    
Edward J. Sozanski, “Can Subliminal be Sublime?,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, September 8, p. H1.

2001    
Catalogue. “The Figure: Another Side of Modernism”, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Staten Island, NY.
Bal, Mieke. Plenarvortag, Bohlau Verlag Ges. m.b.H und Co. KG, Vienna, Austria.

2000    
Catalogue. “endpapers,” Neuberger Museum of Art, State University of New York at Purchase, Purchase, NY.
Catalogue. “Art in Embassies Program: Another Salute”, American Art in the Netherlands.
Robertson, Jean; McDaniel, Craig. “Painting as a Language”, Harcourt College Publishers, NY.
Johnson, Ken; “Objects of Desire: 125 Views of the Human Figure”, New York Times, Sept 1, p. E26.
Roger Malbert, “Quoting Caravaggio,” Times Literary Supplement, September 15, p. 19.

1999    
Catalogue. “International Biennial of Graphic Arts,” International Center of Graphic Art Lubljana, Slovenia.
Gamwell, Lynn. “Dreams 1900 –2000,” Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY.
Bal, Mieke. “Quoting Caravaggio,” University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL.
Bal, Mieke. “Basic Instincts and Their Discontents,” Editions Amsterdam-Rodolpi BV Amsterdam-Atlanta, Ga., The Netherlands.
David Frankel, Review, Artforum, January.

1998    
“25 Years of the Telluride Film Festival: 1974-1998,” Telluride Film Festival, Hanover, NH. (cover reproduction)

1997    
Arbeiter, Joan. Smith, Beryl. and Swenson, Sally Shearer. “Lives and Works: Talks with Women Artists -Volume 2,” Scarecrow Press, Lanham, MD.

1996    
Catalogue. “Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series: 25 Years, 1971-1996.  25 Years of Feminism–25 Years of Women’s Art,” The State University of New Jersey, Rutgers, New Brunswick, NJ, p. 11.

1995    
Dorsey, John. “Going for Baroque,” The Baltimore Sun, September 24, p. J1.

1994    
Whitewalls,“Sweet Sixteen Anniversary,” No. 33+34, reproduction of  The Power of Art, Chapter 9.
Review, The New Yorker, April 18th

1993    
Richard, Paul. “What’s Wrong with This Picture?”, The Washington Post, Sunday, October 31, p. G2.
Burchard, Hank.  “Out of the Fire, Into the Melting Pot,” The Washington Post, October 29.
McWilliams, Martha.  “Go Figure,” Washington City Paper, November 12, p. 43.
Russell, John. “The Corcoran Gives New Meaning to ‘Biennial” The New York Times, November 21, p. 39.

1992    
Kenny, Kay. review, Cover, January, pg. 17.
Heartney, Eleanor. Review, Artnews, January, pg. 128.
Review, Arts Magazine, January, pg. 79.
Ardenne, Paul. Review, Art Press 166 February, pg. 88.
Reproduction, New York Connection, pg. 49.
Catalogue, "Transforming the Western Image," published by Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA.
Catalogue, "Quotations: The Second History of Art," published by the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT.
Pamphlet, "Re-Visions," curated by Carol Tormollan, published by Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL.
Raynor, Vivien. "2 Artists: From Ambiguity to Innuendo," The New York Times, Sunday, November 1, pg.12.

1991    
Kozloff, Max. "The Discreet Voyeur," reproductions, Art in America, July, pg. 100-106.
Baranick, Alana. reproduction, Sunday Discovery, September.

1990    
Gomez-Baeza, Rosina. "Galeria de galerias," El Pais (Spanish), February 7, pg. 35.
Catalogue, "Referees," North Carolina Museum of Art, NC.
"NCMA Presents Three New Slants on Art History," The Arts Journal, NC, February.
"A personal dialogue with the past," Newspaper, Chapel Hill, NC, February 8.
Litt, Steven. "Putting History in its Place," News and Observer, Raleigh, NC.
"Referees' Art Looking Back with Humor," Herald, Durham, NC, February 11, pg. E7.
"N.C. Museum Showing Works by Three Americans," Journal, Winston-Salem, NC, February 11.
"Three Artists Show History in Exhibition," The Pilot, Southern Pines, NC, February 15, pg. 6.
Review, The Arts Journal, NC, March, reproduction, pg. 4.
Halperen, Max. "3 Referees: Dotty Attie, Christopher Hewat, John O'Reilly," Art Papers, May/June, pg. 61-62.
Young, John. "Referees," New Art Exmainer, November, pg. 40.
Sozanski, Edward. "Temple show Tweaks myths of art history," The Philadelphia Inquirer, Thursday, October 25.

1989    
De Vuono, Frances. New Art Examiner, Review, January, Vol. 16 No. 5, pg. 53-54.
Fuld, Alice. The Keene Sentinel, Monadnock Living, "Can art imitate art?," January 20, pg. 6.
"Realists Featured at Keene Gallery," Union Leader, January 12, pg. 21.
Catalogue, "Lines of Vision:  Drawings by Contemporary Women," Judy K. Collischan Van Wagner, Hillwood Art Gallery, Long Island Universtiy, Brookville, New York, Hudson Hills Press.
Martin, Richard and Harold Koda, "The Historical Mode," pg. 96, Rizzoli International Publications, Inc.
Catalogue, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts.
"American Art to Be Focus of NC Museum Exhibitions," The Pilot, Southern Pines, NC, December 2.
Miriam Schapiro and Faith Wilding," Cunts/ Quilts/ Consciousness", Heresies, No, 24, pp. 10-11.

1988     
"Choices," The Village Voice, October 4, pg. 64.
Edith Newhall. Review, New York, September 12, pg. 72.
Robins, Corinne. "Changing Stories:  Recent work by Dotty Attie, Ida Applebroog, and Suzanne Horvitz," Arts Magazine, November, pg. 80.
Cotter, Holland. Art in America, Review, December, pg. 149.
Kuspit, Donald. Artforum, Review, December, pg. 117.
20th Telluride Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Hanover, NH. (cover reproduction)

1987    
Zimmer, William. New York Times, Review, March 22.
Glueck, Grace. "A New Showcase of Art by Women," New York Times, April 1.
Tarlow, Lois. "Profile:  Dotty Attie," Art New England, November. 
Catalogue, "National Museum of Women in the Arts."

1986   
Catalogue, "Artists Choose Artists," CDS Gallery.

1985    
Stewart, Laura. Orlando Sentinel, Review, February 3.
Stewart, Laura. Orlando Sentinel, Review, February 21.
Stewart, Laura. Orlando Sentinel, Review, February 25.
Russell, John. New York Times, Review, March 22.
Gray, Channing. Providence Journal Bulletin Review, February.
Levin, Kim. Village Voice, Review, April 3.
Johnson, Ken. Times Union, Review, March 30.
Lipson, Karen. Newsday, Review, May 5.
Greenstein, Jane. Daily Trojan, Review, March 18.
LaPalma, Marina. Artweek, Review, February 23.
Catalogue, "The Fine Line," Norton Gallery.
Catalogue, "Self Portraits," Gallery at the Plaza.
Catalogue, "Dotty Attie/The Mechanical Peep Show," Valencia Community College.

1984    
Kuspit, Donald. Art in America, Review, February.
Hanson, Bernard. Hartford Courant, Review, February 12.
Raynor, Vivien. New York Times, Review, February 12.
Kalen, Diane. Boston Ledger, Review, March 24.
Zellen, Jody. Art New England, Review, April.
Rand, Carol. New Art Examiner, Review, April.
Catalogue, "Dotty Attie:  Masters of Contemporary Drawing," Virginia Commonwealth. 
Catalogue, "Beauty and Beast," Pratt Graphic Center.
Catalogue, "Large Drawings," Wesleyan University.
Catalogue, "Verbally Charged Images," Independent Curators.
Catalogue, "The New Culture," Indiana University.
Catalogue, "Aspects of New Narrative Art," Berkshire Museum.
Catalogue, "El Arte Narrativo," Museum Rufino Tamayo.

1983    
Zimmer, William. New York Times, Review.
Catalogue, "Fragmentation," New Britain Museum of Art.

1982    
Catalogue, "Tales My Mother Never Told Me," Gallery Association of New York.

1981    
Berger, Maurice. "The Empty Frame," Arts, September.
Catalogue, "Post Modernist Metaphors," Alternative Museum.
Catalogue, "Deja Vu," Western Association of Art Museum.
Catalogue, "Words as Images," Renaissance Society.
Catalogue, "Messages," Albright College.
Catalogue, "New Dimensions in Drawing," Aldrich Museum.
Catalogue, "Woman Series Year 10," Douglass College.

1980    
Galassi, Susan. Arts, Review, February.
Glueck, Grace. New York Times, Review, November 21.
Larson, Kay. New York Magazine, Review, November 24.
Putterman, Susan. "Dotty Attie," Arts, December.
Raynor, Vivien. New York Times, Review, November.
Rickey, Carrie. Village Voice, Review, November.
Catalogue for "Drawing:  The Pluralist Decade," Venice Biennale.
Catalogue for "Drawing: The Pluralist Decade," ICA Philadelphia.

1979    
Ashbery, John. New York Magazine, Review, July 2.
Baker, Kenneth. Boston Phoenix, Review, September 4.
Bell, Tiffany. Arts, Review, January.
Tannous, David. "Report from Washington; Directions/1st Western Biennale," Art in America, December.
Tennant, Donna. "Taboos? Insinuations?," Houston Chronicle, November 11.
Catalogue, "Feministische Kunst," Haaga Gemeentemuseum.
Catalogue, "Dotty Attie; Drawing 1975/79," Houston Contemporary arts Museum.
Catalogue, "Directions I," Hirshhorn Museum.
Catalogue, "Drawings about Drawing Today," Ackland Art Museum.
Catalogue, "Words and Images," Philadelphia College of Art.
Catalogue, "Small is Beautiful," Albright College.

1978    
Kingsley, April. Village Voice, Review, May 20.
Moser, Charlotte. ARTnews, Review, May.
Robins, Corinne. "Dotty Attie," Arts, November.
Zimmer, William. Soho Weekly News, Review, November 16.
Catalogue, "American Narrative/Story Art," Houston Contemporary Arts Museum.
Catalogue, "Artists Look at Art," Spencer Museum of Art.
Catalogue, "Narration," Boston Institute of Contemporary Art.
Catalogue, "Drawing Since 1960," Creighton Art Gallery.
Catalogue, "Overview," P.S. 1.

1977    
Bourdon, David. Art in America, Review, March/April.
Dallier, Aline. "La Montee Des Plasticiennes," Peinture Cahier Theoriques, #10/11.
Frank, Peter. ARTnews, Review, January.
Kultermann, Udo. "Vermeer: Versions Modernes," Connaissance des Arts, April.
Catalogue for "Kunsterlinnen International 1877-1977," Charlottesburg Palace.

1976    
Orenstein, Gloria. "Dotty Attie: Narrative as Ordered Nightmare," Arts, November.
Robins, Corinne. "Dotty Attie:  Narrative as Ordered Nightmare," Arts, November.
Russell, John. The New York Times, Review, June 11.
Catalogue, "3 from NY/Paperworks," Centre Cultural Americain.
Catalogue, "Drawing Now:  10 Artists," Soho Center for Visual Artists.

1975    
Bizot, Jean Francoise. "Les Americaines," Actuel, March.
Eliet, Francoise. "Five Americains," Art Press International, March.
Mayer, Rosemary. "Art '75," Information and Documents, October.

1974    
Alloway, Lawrence. The Nation, Review, May 14.
Carloni, Maria. "Donna in Name del Corpo," Data, Summer.
Dallier, Aline. "Feminist Art aux USA," Opus International, #50.
Forman, Nessa. "In Her Own Image," Philadelphia Sunday Bulletin, April 14.
Gruen, John. Soho Weekly News, Review, November 28.
Nemser, Cindy. "In Her Own Image," Feminist Art Journal, Spring.
Tousley, Nancy. "Artists Books," Print Collectors Newsletter, January/February.

1973    
Nemser, Cindy. "An Interview with A.I.R.," Arts, December.
Palazzoli, Daniella. "-x-=+," Domus, March.
Smith, Roberta. Arts, Review, January.

Selected Works

Selected Works Thumbnails
Dotty Attie, The Golden Age of Radio (X), 2018

Dotty Attie
The Golden Age of Radio (X), 2018
oil on linen, 3 panels
each: 6 x 6 ins.
15.2 x 15.2 cm

Dotty Attie, The Lone Ranger, 2012-13

Dotty Attie
The Lone Ranger, 2012-13
oil on linen, 18 panels
16 panels: 6 x 6 ins. (15.2 x 15.2 cm)
2 panels: 3 x 4 ins. (7.6 x 10.2 cm)

Dotty Attie, Skin Deep, 2007

Dotty Attie
Skin Deep, 2007
oil on linen, 35 panels
28 panels: 6 x 6 ins. (15.2 x 15.2 cm)
7 panels: 3 x 4 ins. (7.6 x 10.2 cm)

Dotty Attie, The Origins of The World, 1993

Dotty Attie
The Origins of The World, 1993
oil on linen, 9 panels
each: 6 x 6 ins.
15.2 x 15.2 cm

Dotty Attie, An Eminent Painter, 1989

Dotty Attie
An Eminent Painter, 1989
oil on linen, 36 panels
each: 36 x 36 ins.
91.4 x 91.4 cm

Dotty Attie, Vermeer's Wife, 1988

Dotty Attie
Vermeer's Wife, 1988
oil on canvas, 9 panels
each: 6 x 6 ins.
15.2 x 15.2 cm

Dotty Attie, The Golden Age of Radio (X), 2018

Dotty Attie
The Golden Age of Radio (X), 2018
oil on linen, 3 panels
each: 6 x 6 ins.
15.2 x 15.2 cm

Dotty Attie, The Lone Ranger, 2012-13

Dotty Attie
The Lone Ranger, 2012-13
oil on linen, 18 panels
16 panels: 6 x 6 ins. (15.2 x 15.2 cm)
2 panels: 3 x 4 ins. (7.6 x 10.2 cm)

Dotty Attie, Skin Deep, 2007

Dotty Attie
Skin Deep, 2007
oil on linen, 35 panels
28 panels: 6 x 6 ins. (15.2 x 15.2 cm)
7 panels: 3 x 4 ins. (7.6 x 10.2 cm)

Dotty Attie, The Origins of The World, 1993

Dotty Attie
The Origins of The World, 1993
oil on linen, 9 panels
each: 6 x 6 ins.
15.2 x 15.2 cm

Dotty Attie, An Eminent Painter, 1989

Dotty Attie
An Eminent Painter, 1989
oil on linen, 36 panels
each: 36 x 36 ins.
91.4 x 91.4 cm

Dotty Attie, Vermeer's Wife, 1988

Dotty Attie
Vermeer's Wife, 1988
oil on canvas, 9 panels
each: 6 x 6 ins.
15.2 x 15.2 cm

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