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Whitney Chadwick Quotes

1943–2026 United States

Whitney Chadwick (July 28, 1943 – August 6, 2026) was an American feminist art historian, and Professor Emerita at San Francisco State University.

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The word "artist" means man unless qualified by the category "woman."

Attempts to juggle domestic responsibilities with artistic production have often resulted in smaller bodies of work, and often works smaller in scale, than those produced by male contemporaries. Yet art history continues to privilege prodigious output and monumental scale or conception over the selective and the intimate.

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