Ann McCoy

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Marilyn Ann McCoy
Born1946 (age 7677) [1]
Boulder, Colorado [1]
Nationality American
Website annmccoy.com

Marilyn Ann McCoy (born 1946) is an American artist. During her early career she created sculptures in wood and plastic resin. Beginning in the early 1970s, she abandoned sculpture to focus on large-scale drawings in colored pencil. [1] [2] She was a Guggenheim Foundation fellow in 2019. [3]

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Early life and education

McCoy received a BFA degree from the University of Colorado in 1969 and an MA degree in sculpture and drawing from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1972. [1]

Her image is included in the iconic 1972 poster Some Living American Women Artists by Mary Beth Edelson. [4]

Collections

Her work is included in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, [1] the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, [5] the Museum of Modern Art, New York, [6] the Whitney Museum of American Art [7] and the Art Institute of Chicago. [8]

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  2. Arts Magazine. Art Digest, Incorporated. 1989.
  3. "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Ann McCoy".
  4. "Some Living American Women Artists/Last Supper". Smithsonian American Art Museum. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
  5. "Untitled | LACMA Collections". collections.lacma.org.
  6. "Ann McCoy | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art.
  7. "Ann McCoy | Waterfall With Snow". whitney.org.
  8. "Marilyn Ann McCoy". The Art Institute of Chicago.