Pat Steir

Untitled, 2008
Oil, pencil, ink, aquacryl
20 x 15 inches (50.8 x 38.1 cm)
Courtesy of the Artist and The Estate of Pat Steir

Pat Steir (1938- 2026) is widely recognized for her paintings, drawings, prints, and installations which have been exhibited in museums and galleries internationally since the 1970s. Her work is represented in museum collections, including: the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; The Museum of Modern Art, NY; Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY; The Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA; National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC; Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; The San Francisco Museum of Fine Arts, CA; de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Tate Gallery, London, among others. In 2016, Steir was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters and in 2017 was presented with the U.S. Department of State’s National Medal of the Arts. She received the National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artist’s Grant in 1973, and an Honorary Degree of Fine Art from Pratt Institute in 1991. Steir is also a recipient of The Guggenheim Fellowship in 1982, and was a Founding Member of Printed Matter as well as the feminist journal Heresies.