Cindy Nemser, Advocate for Women Artists, Is Dead at 83
In the 1970s she called out chauvinism and pushed back against the marginalization of women in the art world, in part by helping to create The Feminist Art Journal.
Cindy Nemser with a copy of the winter 1973-74 issue of The Feminist Art Journal. She helped create the journal to promote women artists.Credit.Cindy Nemser Papers, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles.
Published Feb. 7, 2021Updated Feb. 17, 2021
Cindy Nemser, an art critic and historian who, half a century ago, began calling out sexism in the art world, decrying the way women artists were treated and how their work was evaluated, died on Jan. 26 at her home in Brooklyn. She was 83.