"Las Tres Marías" by Judith Baca, 1976

Baca’s large installations and community murals explore racial and gender stereotypes

With the arrival of feminism in the 1960s and 1970s, the widely held assumption that women couldn’t be professional artists changed radically, altering the world of contemporary art. In Los Angeles's burgeoning art scene, artist Judith Baca merged innovative individual practice and feminist concerns with efforts to build community among Latinx artists and audiences. Baca’s "Las Tres Marías" (1976), which features life-sized drawings flanking a mirror, invites viewers to see themselves in relation to two defiant Chicana urban personas, a zoot-suited 1950s pachuca and a 1970s chola.

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Las Tres Marías

Artist: Judith F. Baca, born Los Angeles, CA 1946
Sitter: unidentified; unidentified

Credit Line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase made possible by William T. Evans
Copyright: © 1976, Judith F. Baca

1976

Object number: 1998.162A-C

Restrictions & Rights: Usage conditions apply

Type: Sculpture

Medium: colored pencil on paper mounted on panel with upholstery backing and mirror
Dimensions: overall: 68 1/4 x 50 1/4 x 2 1/4 in. (173.4 x 127.6 x 5.7 cm.)

Department: Painting and Sculpture

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Topic: Portrait female\Maria; Portrait female\full length

Record ID: saam_1998.162A-C

Usage of Metadata (Object Detail Text): Not determined

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"Las Tres Marías" by Judith Baca, 1976

Baca’s large installations and community murals explore racial and gender stereotypes

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