Why Are There So Few Monuments That Successfully Depict Women?
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/18/t-magazine/female-monuments-women.html
Why Are There So Few Monuments That Successfully Depict Women?
There’s still very little thought paid to how women are represented — as bodies and as selves.
Asked to paint a female figure she’d commemorate with a statue, the Los Angeles-based artist February James, 43, chose Augusta Savage (1892-1962), an American sculptor during the Harlem Renaissance. Savage is “making a statue of Stacey Abrams and Kamala Harris,” James said, noting that Savage’s 1939 sculpture for the World’s Fair was destroyed.Credit...February James