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Maria Josephy, Prometheus, 1980
mixed media including hardware
36 x 79 in.

Maria Josephy was born in New York City in 1933. She studied painting and printmaking at Sara Lawrence College receiving a B.A. in 1954. She has worked as a free-lance graphic designer in Chicago and Washington, D.C., from 1957 to present. Josephy began making collages and assemblages in 1962. She has participated in shows in New York, Chicago, and Washington, D.C., and had a solo exhibit in the Hampton Institute College Museum in Hampton, Virginia, in 1989. Josephy's whimsical narratives often draw on classical themes and are marked by an uncanny sense of invention and detail.