Thirteen More Works by Nancy Spero, a Persistently Disturbing Artist

Nancy Spero has been producing cutting-edge protest art for five decades. Her biography at Artnet's Artist Works Catalogues speaks mainly of technique, but I've arranged her works to contrast the pictorial effects, which illustrates the consistency of her concerns. If they were ordered chronologically they would begin in the 1950's and end in the 1990's.

To view an article of Ms. Spero's works I published at OEN on October 4, 2008, titled simply Contemporary Protest Art, click here.

The Artist, Nancy Spero by Nancy Spero and Artnet's AWC

All of the images below are reproduced courtesy of the artist, Nancy Spero, and of Artnet's Artist Works Catalogs. Click here, where it says: "Artnet offers these catalogues free to the public as an educational resource. Simply click on an individual artist's image to begin, and check back often to browse new catalogues."

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Animals III, Typewriter and Photostat Collage on Paper (1981), by Nancy Spero and Artnet's AWC

Burnt Mother and Child, Handprinting on Paper (1987), by Nancy Spero and Artnet's AWC

Eagle, Victim, B-52 & Shrapnel (1970), by Nancy Spero and Artnet's AWC

G.L.O.R.Y., Gouache and Ink on Paper (1967), by Nancy Spero and Artnet's AWC

Inuit-Peru, Printed Collage on Paper (1995), by Nancy Spero and Artnet's AWC

Mother and Children 2, Oil on Canvas (1956), by Nancy Spero and Artnet's AWC

Performance, Printed Collage on Paper (1995), by Nancy Spero and Artnet's AWC

Rip Off, Printed Collage on Paper (1974), by Nancy Spero and Artnet's AWC

Screw Corporate Art, Handprinting and Typewriter on Paper (1974), by Nancy Spero and Artnet's AWC

Ferocious Mother, Oil on Canvas (1962), by Nancy Spero and Artnet's AWC

She Turns Men to Stone, Printed Collage on Paper (1996), by Nancy Spero and Artnet's AWC

The Bug: Helicopter and Victim, Gouache and Ink on Paper (1966), by Nancy Spero and Artnet's AWC

To the Revolution, Handprinting and Color on Paper (1996), by Nancy Spero and Artnet's AWC

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