Shadow Figures in the City, 1959
Acrylic and paper collage on canvas board
10 x 8 inches
Born in the Bronx, New York in 1926, Rosalyn Drexler first began exhibiting her work during the late 1950s and was a fixture of the Pop Art scene by the early sixties.
Appropriating imagery from popular journals and other printed matter, Drexler transforms otherwise prosaic images by adding bright pigments and creating new contexts. Cutting reproductions from magazines, Drexler fixes her strategically selected images to canvas and overpaints the resulting collage, thereby eliminating the visual trace of the underlying, mechanically reproduced images. As with Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, Rosalyn Drexler works to challenge the concept of originality along with the role of the painter in an age of mechanical reproduction.
Not only creating iconic images, Drexler’s work also presents a social narrative during a time in which narrative, having been banished by the Abstract Expressionists, was relegated to the speech bubbles in Lichtenstein’s paintings. Behind the tabloid images, her art deals with social issues presented in the vernacular of American 1940s Film Noir and French Nouvelle Vague. Drexler’s imagery is complex and more difficult to immediately recall than that of her contemporaries: her paintings are iconic in incident as well as image.
In addition to her work as a visual artist, Drexler is also an accomplished novelist and playwright. She published her first play in 1963 and her first novel in 1965. She is the recipient of three Obie Awards, as well as an Emmy Award for her work on Lily Tomlin’s television special Lily (co-written with Richard Pryor).
Notable exhibitions include: Reuben Gallery (1960, New York), Kornblee Gallery (1964, 1965, 1966, New York), Grey Art Gallery, (1986, New York) Pace Gallery (2007, New York), and Garth Greenan Gallery (2015, 2017, 2019, 2023, New York). A survey exhibition, Rosalyn Drexler and the Ends of Man, took place in 2006 at Rutgers University’s Paul Robeson Gallery (Newark, New Jersey). A retrospective exhibition, Rosalyn Drexler: Who Does She Think She Is?, took place at the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University (2016, Waltham, Massachusetts); it traveled to the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in October 2016 and the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum in February 2017.
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Drexler’s paintings were featured in many important museum exhibitions, such as Pop Art USA (1963, Oakland Art Museum, California), The Painter and the Photograph (1964, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University), American Pop Art (1974, Whitney Museum of American Art), and Another Aspect of Pop Art, (1978, P.S. 1, Institute for Art and Urban Resources). Since 2010, her work figured prominently in Sid Sachs’ landmark exhibition Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists, 1958–1968 (2010, University of the Arts), Power Up: Female Pop Art (2010 Kunsthalle Wien), Pop to Popism (2014, Australia’s Art Gallery of New South Wales), International Pop, (2015–2016, Walker Art Center, Dallas Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art), and Human Interest, (2016–2017, Whitney Museum of American Art).
Drexler’s paintings are in the collections of many museums, including: the Albright-Knox Art Gallery; the Allen Memorial Art Gallery, Oberlin College; the Colby College Museum of Art; Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida; the Grey Art Gallery, New York University; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University; the Wadsworth Athenaeum; the Walker Art Center; and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Rosalyn Drexler
1926
Born in the Bronx, New York
Lives and works in New York, New York
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1960
Reuben Gallery, New York, New York, February 19–March 10
1964
Rosalyn Drexler, Kornblee Gallery, New York, New York, March 17–April 14
Rosalyn Drexler, Ward-Nasse Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, October 3–22
Sun Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts
1965
Rosalyn Drexler, Kornblee Gallery, New York, New York, April 24–May 8
Feingarten Galleries, Chicago, Illinois
1966
Rosalyn Drexler, Kornblee Gallery, New York, March 19–April 14
1967
Rosalyn Drexler, The Contemporary Gallery, Jewish Community Center, Kansas City, Missouri, November 4–24
1973
Rockland Community College, State University of New York, Suffern, New York
1976
Saint Catherine College, St. Paul, Minnesota
1986–1987
Rosalyn Drexler: Intimate Emotions, Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University, New York, New York, July 14–August 28, 1986; Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, South Carolina, September 9–October 12, 1986; Museum of Art, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, November 1, 1986–January 11, 1987
1992
Life: The Magic Show, La MaMa Galleria, New York, New York, November 12–29
1998
Nothing Personal: Recent Paintings, Maurine and Robert Rothschild Gallery, Bunting Institute, Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, September 27–October 18
2000
I Won’t Hurt You: Paintings, 1962–1999, Nicholas Davies Gallery, New York, New York, March 7–April 8
2004
Rosalyn Drexler: To Smithereens, Paintings, 1961–2003, Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 27–April 9
2006
Rosalyn Drexler and the Ends of Man: Works from 1961–2001, Paul Robeson Gallery, Rutgers, State University of New Jersey, Newark, New Jersey, September 5–October 18
2007
Rosalyn Drexler: I Am the Beautiful Stranger, Paintings of the ’60s, Pace Wildenstein, New York, New York, March 16–April 21
2015
Rosalyn Drexler: Vulgar Lives, Garth Greenan Gallery, New York, New York, February 19–March 28
2016–2017
Rosalyn Drexler: Who Does She Think She Is?, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, February 11–June 6, 2016; Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, October 22, 2016–January 29, 2017; Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, February 10–April 17, 2017
2017
Rosalyn Drexler: Occupational Hazard, Garth Greenan Gallery, New York, New York, September 7–October 21
2019
Rosalyn Drexler: The Greatest Show on Earth, Garth Greenan Gallery, New York, New York, February 21–March 30
2020
Rosalyn Drexler: In the Ring (online), Garth Greenan Gallery, New York, New York, November 18–December 31
2023
Rosalyn Drexler: Happy Dance, Garth Greenan Gallery, New York, New York, March 2–April 15
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1954
[Rosalyn and Sherman Drexler], Courtyard Gallery, Berkeley, California, November 29–December 15
1960
Homage to Albert Camus, Stuttman Gallery, New York, New York, May 4–28
New Forms—New Media II, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, New YorkSeptember 28–October 22
1961
Group Show, Tanager Gallery, New York, New York, May 19–June 8
Great Jones Gallery, New York, New York
H.C.E. Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts
1962
The Closing Show: 1952–1962, Tanager Gallery, New York, New York, May 25–June 14
1963
Contemporary Sculptors, Riverside Museum, New York, New York. April–May 26
Rosalyn Drexler and Tom Doyle, Zabriskie Gallery, New York, New York, April 15–May 4
Summer Shades, Kornblee Gallery, New York, New York, July 6–31
Pop Art USA, Oakland Art Museum, Oakland, California, and California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, California, September 7–29
Mixed Media and Pop Art, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, November 19–December 15
1964
First International Girlie Show, Pace Gallery, New York, New York, January 7–25; Pace Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, February 16–March 11
The New Art, Davison Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, March 1–22
Some Contemporary American Figure Painters, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, May 1–31
Collage-Assemblage Exhibition, Pace Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, December 1–31
Inform and Interpret, American Federation of Arts, New York, New York
Washington Gallery of Modern Art, Washington, DC
1964–1965
The Painter and the Photograph, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, October 5–November 2, 1964; Museum of Art, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, November 15–December 20, 1964; Museum of Art, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, January 3–February 10, 1965; Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana, February 28–March 22, 1965; Museum of Art, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, April 1–May 7, 1965; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California, May 19–June 21, 1965
Dealer’s Choice: An Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings, and Prints, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, Texas, December 3, 1964–January 3, 1965
1965–1966
Recent Acquisitions, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, May 19, 1965–May 15, 1966
American Federation of Arts: Inform and Interpret, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, October 1–22, 1965; Akron Art Institute, Ohio, November 5–26, 1965; Contemporary Arts Association, Houston, Texas, December 10–31, 1965; Centennial Art Museum, Corpus Christi, Texas, January 14–February 4, 1966; Juniata College, Huntington, Pennsylvania, February 23–March 16, 1966; Ithaca College, New York, May 3–24, 1966; State University College, Brockport, New York, July 20–August 17, 1966; State University of New York, Potsdam, New York, October 5–26, 1966
1965
Eleven from the Reuben Gallery, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York, January 5-31
The New American Realism, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts, February 18–April 4
Pop Art and the American Tradition, Milwaukee Art Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, April 9–May 9
1965–1966
American Federation of Arts: Inform and Interpret, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, October 1–22, 1965; Akron Art Institute, OH, November 5–26, 1965; Contemporary Arts Association, Houston, TX, December 10–31, 1965; Centennial Art Museum, Corpus Christi, TX, January 14–February 4, 1966; Juniata College, Huntington, PA, February 23–March 16, 1966; Ithaca College, NY, May 3–24, 1966; State University College, Brockport, NY, July 20–August 17, 1966; State University of New York, Potsdam, October 5–26, 1966
Recent Acquisitions, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, May 19, 1965–May 15, 1966
1966
The Harry N. Abrams Family Collection, Jewish Museum, New York, New York, June 29–September 5
1967
The Helen W. and Robert M. Benjamin Collection, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, May 4–June 18
Protest and Hope: An Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, Wollman Hall, New School Art Center, New York, New York, October 24–December 2
Homage to Marilyn Monroe, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, New York, December 6–30
1968–1969
Selections from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, December, 1968–January, 1969
1970
January ’70: Contemporary Women Artists, Hathorn Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York, January 6–29
Pop Plus: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art Downtown Branch, New York, New York, June 20–August 16
1970–1971
Women in the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, December 16, 1970–January 19, 1971
1972
Unmanly Art, Suffolk Musuem, Stony Brook, New York, October 14–November 24
1974
Six Women at Bienville, Bienville Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 27–April 13
American Pop Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, April 6–June 16
1975
76 Jefferson, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, September 11–December 1
Gallery 101, Stamford, Connecticut
1976
College of St. Katherine, Saint Paul, Minnesota
1977
Pop Plus: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, June 20–August 15
1978
Another Aspect of Pop Art, Institute for Art and Urban Resources, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Queens, New York, October 1–November 19
1979
Women Artists in Washington Collections, University of Maryland Art Gallery and Women’s Caucus for Art, College Park, Maryland, January 18–February 25
1984
American Women Artists: Part I, 20th Century Pioneers, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, New York, January 12–February 4
1+1, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, New York, New York, January 24–February 18
The New Portrait, Institute for Art and Urban Resources, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Queens, New York, April 25–June 10
1987
Made in U.S.A.: An Americanization in Modern Art, the ’50s and ’60s, University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, California, April 4–June 21; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, July 25–September 6; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia, October 7–December 7
1991
The Abortion Project, Simon Watson Gallery, New York, New York, March 30–April 27
1992
Anniversary Invitational, AIR Gallery, New York, New York
1993
In the Ring, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, New York, March 21–September 6
1999
Parallel Visions: Selections from the Sylvia Sleigh Collection of Women Artists, SOHO20 Gallery, New York, January 5–30, 1999
2001
Pop Art: U.S./U.K. Connections, 1956–1966, Menil Collection, Houston, January 26–May 13
2007–2008
Beauty and the Blonde: An Exploration of American Art and Popular Culture, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, November 16, 2007–January 28, 2008
2010
50 Years at Pace, Pace Gallery, New York, New York, September 17–October 23
2010–2011
Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists, 1958–1968, Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January 22–March 15, 2010; Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska, July 30–September 10, 2010; Brooklyn Art Museum, Brooklyn, New York, October 10, 2010–January 9, 2011; Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, Massachusetts, January 20–April 3, 2011
Power Up: Female Pop Art, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria, November 5, 2010–Februrary 20, 2011; Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany, April 29–July 10, 2011; Städtische Galerie Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany, July 23–October 9, 2011
2012
In the Pink, Joe Sheftel Gallery, New York, New York, June 21–July 3
2012–2013
Sinister Pop, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, November 15, 2012–March 31, 2013
2014
Pop Abstraction, Garth Greenan Gallery, New York, New York, January 18–February 15
2014–2015
Pop to Popism, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, November 1, 2014–March 1, 2015
2015
Paper, Garth Greenan Gallery, New York, New York, July 9–August 14
2015–2016
International Pop, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 11-September 6, 2015; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, October 11, 2015–January 17, 2016; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 24–May 15, 2016
The Tiny Picture Show, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, New York, December 10, 2015–January 23, 2016
2016–2017
Human Interest: Portraits from the Whitney’s Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, April 6, 2016 – February 12, 2017
2017
March Madness, Fort Gansevoort, New York, March 17–May 7
Hand-Painted Pop! Art and Appropriation, 1961 to Now, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut, April 27–August 13
2017–2018
Inventing Downtown: Artist-Run Galleries in New York City, 1952–1965, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, New York, January 10–April 1, 2017; New York University Abu Dhabi Art Gallery, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, October 4, 2017–January 13, 2018
Pop Art: Icons That Matter, Musée Maillol, Paris, France, September 22, 2017–January 21, 2018
2018
Giant Steps: Artists and the 1960s, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, June 30–December 30
2018–2019
Judson Dance Theater: The Work Is Never Done, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, September 16, 2018–February 3, 2019
2019
NOMEN: American Women Artists from 1945 to Today, Phillips, New York, June 19–August 3
36 Works on Paper, Garth Greenan Gallery, New York, New York, July 18–August 9
2019–2020
From Soup Cans to Flying Saucers, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, Fall 2019–Fall 2020
2019–2022
The Whitney’s Collection: Selections from 1900 to 1965, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, June 28, 2019–2022
2020–2021
She-Bam Pow POP Wizz!, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Nice, France, October 3, 2020–March 28, 2021
2021–2022
Pop Art: A New Vernacular, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, September 4, 2021–February 6, 2022
2021–2024
re:collections: Six Decades at the Rose Art Museum, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, June 25, 2021–June 2, 2024
2022
America: Between Dreams and Realities, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, June 9–September 5
MAD WOMEN: Kornblee, Jackson, Saidenberg, and Ward, Art Dealers on Madison Avenue in the 1960s, David Nolan Gallery, New York, New York, September 8–October 22
2022–2023
New York: 1962-1964, Jewish Museum, New York, New York, July 22, 2022–January 8, 2023
Put It This Way: (Re)Visions of the Hirshhorn Collection, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, August 2, 2022–Summer 2023
2023
Painted Pop, Acquavella Galleries, New York, New York, October 10–December 15, 2023
2023–2025
Strike Fast, Dance Lightly: Artists on Boxing, The Chruch, Sag Harbor, New York, New York, June 24–September 3, 2023; The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, New York, June 15–August 11, 2023; Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida, October 26, 2024–March 9, 2025
2024–2025
Pop Forever, Tom Wesselmann &…, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France, October 17, 2024–February 24th, 2025.
Get in the Game: Sports, Art, Culture, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California, October 19, 2024–February 18, 2025
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Allen Memorial Art Gallery, Oberlin College,Oberlin, Ohio
Rollins Museum of Art, Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida
Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine
Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, South Carolina
Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, New York
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachussetts
St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
BOOKS AND PLAYS BY ROSALYN DREXLER
Drexler, Rosalyn. Art Does (Not!) Exist. Normal, IL: Fiction Collective Two, 1996.
———. Bad Guy. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1982.
———. Collision Course. New York: Random House, 1968.
———. The Cosmopolitan Girl. London: Evans, 1975.
———. Dear. New York: Applause Books, 1997.
———. I Am the Beautiful Stranger. New York: Grossman Press, 1965.
———. The Investigation; &, Hot Buttered Roll. London: Methuen, 1969.
———. The Line of Least Existence and Other Plays. New York: Random House, 1967.
———. Methuen Playscripts. London: Methuen, 1968.
———. The Off-Off Broadway Book. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1972.
———. One or Another. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1970.
———. Starburn: The Story of Jenni Love. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1979.
———. Theatre Experiment. Garden City, NJ: Anchor Books, 1967.
———. To Smithereens. New York: New American Library, 1972.
———. Transients Welcome. New York: Broadway Play Publishing, 1984.
———. Unwed Widow. New York: Ballantine, 1975.
———. Vulgar Lives. Portland, OR: Chiasmus Press, 2007.
Sorel, Julia [Rosalyn Drexler]. Alex: The Other Side of Dawn. New York: Ballantine, 1977.
———. Dawn: Story of a Teenage Runaway. New York: Ballantine, 1976.
———. Rocky. New York: Ballantine, 1976.
———. See How She Runs. New York: Ballantine, 1978.
BOOKS AND CATALOGUES
Abraham, Teresa Taisha. Carnivalesque and American Women Dramatists of the Sixties. [Ph.D. Dissertation, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1990.] Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International, 1990.
Albright-Knox Art Gallery. Mixed Media and Pop Art. Buffalo: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 1963.
Alexander, Darsie, and Bartholomew Ryan, eds. International Pop. Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 2015.
Alloway, Lawrence. American Pop Art. New York: Collier Books, 1974.
———. Topics in American Art Since 1945. New York: Norton, 1975.
———. The New Art. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University, 1964.
Baskin, Lisa Unger, Lee R. Edwards, and Mary Heath. Woman: An Issue. Boston: Little, Brown, 1972.
Benedikt, Michael, ed. Theatre Experiment: An Anthology of American Plays. Garden City, NY: Anchor Books, 1968.
Betsko, Kathleen and Koenig, Rachel. Interviews with Contemporary Women Playwrights. New York: Beech Tree Books, 1987.
Bottoms, Stephen J. Playing Underground: A Critical History of the 1960s Off-Off-Broadway Movement. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004.
Brauer, David E., Jim Edwards, Christopher Finch, and Walter Hopps. Pop Art: U.S./U.K. Connections, 1956–1966. Houston: Menil Foundation, 2001.
Brutvan, Cheryl. The Triumph of Love: Beth Rudin DeWoody Collects. West Palm Beach: Norton Museum of Art, 2015.
Coke, Van Deren. The Painter and the Photograph: From Delacroix to Warhol. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1964.
Coplans, John. Pop Art USA. Oakland, CA: Oakland Art Museum, 1963.
Dasgupta, Gautam and Bonnie Marranca. American Playwrights, A Critical Survey. New York: Drama Book Specialists, 1981.
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University. The New Art. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University, 1964.
Earnest, Jarrett and Lucas Zwirner. Tell Me Something Good: Artist Interviews from The Brooklyn Rail. New York: David Zwirner Books, 2017.
Foundation Louis Vuitton. Pop Forever, Tom Wesselmann…. Paris: Éditions Gallimard: 2024.
France, Rachel. A Century of Plays by American Women. New York : Richards Rosen Press, 1979.
Frei, George and Neil Printz. The Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné. Vol. 1. New York: Phaidon, 2002.
Frigeri, Flavia. Pop Art. London: Thames & Hudson, 2018.
Gablik, Suzi, and John Russell. Pop Art Redefined. New York: Praeger, 1969.
Garth Greenan Gallery. Rosalyn Drexler: Vulgar Lives. New York: Garth Greenan Gallery, 2015.
Glimcher, Mildred L. Happenings: New York, 1958–1963. New York: The Monacelli Press, 2012.
Goodman, Abigail Ross, Molly Epstein, and Laura Beshears. Art for Rollins: The Alfond Collection of Contemporary Art, Volume III. Winterpark, Florida: Cornell Fine Arts Museum, 2018.
Guenin, Hélène, Géraldine Gourbe, and Mathilde de Croix. Les Amazones Du Pop: She-Bam Pow Pop Wizz. Paris: MAMAC, 2020.
Hadler, Mona and Kalliopi Minoudaki, eds. Pop Art and Beyond: Gender, Race and Class in the Global Sixties. London: Bloomsbury, 2020.
Harrington, Laura, ed. 100 Monologues: An Audition Source Book from New Dramatists. New York: New American Library, 1989.
Hathorn Gallery, Skidmore College. January ’70: Contemporary Women Artists. Saratoga Springs, NY: Hathorn Gallery, Skidmore College, 1970.
Hess, Thomas B., and Elizabeth C. Baker. Art and Sexual Politics: Women’s Liberation, Women Artists, and Art History. New York: Collier Books, 1973.
Janis, Harriet, and Rudi Blesh. Collage: Personalities, Concepts, Techniques. Philadelphia: Chilton Book Co., 1967.
Jewish Museum. The Harry N. Abrams Family Collection. New York: Jewish Museum, 1966.
Jones, Kellie. In the Ring. Staten Island, NY: Snug Harbor Cultural Center, 1993.
Kunstalle Wien. Power Up: Female Pop Art. Cologne: DuMont Buchverlag, 2010.
Kuspit, Donald and Melinda Wortz. 1+1=2. New York: Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, 1984.
Lamont, Rosette C. Women on the Verge: 7 Avant-Garde American Plays. New York: Applause, 1993.
Lethem, Jonathan. Cellophane Bricks. Houston: Ze Books, 2024.
Lippard, Lucy. Pop Art. New York: Praeger, 1966.
MacKay, Andy Stewart. The Story of Pop Art: Culture, Celebrity, and Controversy in 100 Creative Milestones. London: Ilex, 2020.
Martha Jackson Gallery. New Forms—New Media. New York: Martha Jackson Gallery, 1960.
Marter, Joan. Off Limits: Rutgers University and the Avant-Garde, 1957–1963. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1999.
Mednicov, Melissa. Pop Art and Popular Music: Jukebox Modernism. Routledge, 2018.
Messerli, Douglas, and Mac Wellman, eds. From the Other Side of the Century II: A New American Drama, 1960–1995. Los Angeles: Sun and Moon Press, 1998.
Milwaukee Art Center. Pop Art and the American Tradition. Milwaukee: Milwaukee Art Center, 1965.
Minioudaki, Kalliopi. Women in Pop: Difference and Marginality. [Ph.D. Dissertation, New York University, 2009.] UMI Dissertations Publishing, 2009.
Musée Mailol. Pop Art: Icons that Matter: Collection du Whitney Museum of American Art. Paris: Beaux Arts Éditions, 2017.
Munro, Eleanor C. Originals: American Women Artists. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1979.
O’Doherty, Brian. Object and Idea: An Art Critic’s Journal, 1961–1967. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1968.
O’Rourke, Joyce Williams. New Female Playwrights in the American Theatre, 1973-83: A Critical Analysis of Thought in Selected Plays. [Ph.D. Dissertation, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge 1988] Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms, 1989.
Olauson, Judith Louise Baxter. The American Woman Playwright: A View of Criticism and Characterization. Troy, N.Y.: Whitston, 1981.
Pace Gallery. 50 Years at Pace. New York: Pace Gallery, 2010.
PaceWildenstein. Rosalyn Drexler: I Am the Beautiful Stranger, Paintings of the ’60s. New York: PaceWildenstein, 2007.
Parone, Edward. Collision Course. New York: Random House, 1968.
Phaidon. Great Women Artists. London: Phaidon, 2019.
Poland, Albert, and Bruce Mailman, eds. The Off-Off-Broadway Book: The Plays, People, Theatre. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1972.
Rachleff, Melissa. Inventing Downtown: Artist-Run Galleries in New York City, 1952–1965. New York: Grey Art Gallery, New York University, 2017.
Rideal, Liz and Kathleen Soriano. Madam & Eve: Women Portraying Women. Laurence King: London, 2018.
Rombes, Nicholas. A Cultural Dictionary of Punk: 1974-1982. London: The Nicholas International Publishing Group, Inc., 2009.
Sachs, Sid. Invisible City: Philadelphia and the Vernacular Avant-Garde. Philadelphia: University of the Arts, 2020.
———. Rosalyn Drexler: To Smithereens, Paintings, 1961–2003. Philadelphia: University of the Arts, 2004.
———. Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists, 1958–1968. Philadelphia: University of the Arts, 2010.
Siegel, Katy. Rosalyn Drexler: Who Does She Think She Is? New York: Gregory R. Miller, 2016.
Sokolowski, Thomas. Rosalyn Drexler: Intimate Emotions. New York: Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University, 1986.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Eleven from the Reuben Gallery. New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1965.
Sooke, Alastair. Pop Art: A Colorful History. London: Viking, 2015.
Stewart McKay, Andy. The Story of Pop Art. London: Ilex, 2020
Stitch, Sidra. Made in U.S.A.: An Americanization in Modern Art, the ’50s and ’60s. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987.
Suffolk Museum, Unmanly Art. Stony Brook, NY: Suffolk Museum, 1972.
Tate Modern. The EY Exhibition: The World Goes Pop. London: Tate Modern, 2015.
Taylor, Roger G. Marilyn in Art. Salem, NH: Salem House, 1984.
Tunnicliffe, Wayne, and Anneke Jaspers. Pop to Popism. Sydney: Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2014.
Van Wyck, Gary. Pop Art: 50 Works of Art You Should Know. Munich: Prestel, 2013.
Veneciano, Jorge Daniel. Rosalyn Drexler and the Ends of Man: Works from 1961–2001. Newark: Paul Robeson Gallery, Rutgers, State University of New Jersey, 2006.
Wasserman, Barbara Alson. The Bold New Women. Greenwich, CT: Fawcett, 1970.
Weinberg, Adam D., Carrie Springer and Annabelle Ténèze. Pop Art: Icons that Matter. Paris: Fonds Mercator, 2017.
Whitney Museum of American Art. Pop Plus: Selections from the Permanent Collection. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1977.
Withers, Josephine. Women Artists in Washington Collections. College Park: Art Gallery, University of Maryland, 1979.
———. Women Artists in Washington Collections. College Park, Maryland: University of Maryland Art Gallery and Women’s Caucus for Art: 1979.
Worcester Art Museum. The New American Realism. Worcester, MA: Worcester Art Museum, 1965.
PERIODICALS
“9 Playwrights Get Rockefeller Grants.” New York Times, December 8, 1973.
Adams, Phoebe. “Short Reviews: Books: The Cosmopolitan Girl by Rosalyn Drexler.” Atlantic Monthly 235, no. 4 (1975): 100.
Adams, Samuel. “Around Boston.” Art News 115, no. 3 (2016): 147-149.
"Art: Rosalyn Drexler." Time Out, no. 1107 (2017): 49.
“Atticus.” Sunday Times, February 5, 1967.
Avant, John Alfred. “Drexler, Rosalyn. The Cosmopolitan Girl.” Library Journal 100, no. 7 (1975): 689.
Baker, R.C. “Mexican Spitfire Returns.” Village Voice 52, no. 10 (2007): 94.
———. "Rosalyn Drexler Begins Again." Village Voice 62, no. 35 (2017): 22–27.
———. "Why Do We Have to Go to Buffalo to See a Retrospective of One of NYC's Most Brilliant Pop Artists?" Village Voice (November 24–December 1, 2016).
Barnes, Clive. “‘The Line of Least Existence,’ Drexler Play Offered by Judson Troupe.” New York Times, March 25, 1968.
Barnitz, Jacqueline. “Pictorial Review: ‘Untitled, 1963 (D.M.)’.” Art Voices 3, no. 4(1964): 37.
Benedikt, Michael, “New York Letter: The Figure; Landscape.” Art International 10, no. 7 (1966): 47.
Berkson, Bill. “Made in the U.S.A.” Artforum 26, no. 2 (1987): 145-47.
Berrigan, T. “Reviews and Previews: Rosalyn Drexler.” Art News 64, no. 2 (1965): 11.
Berrigan, T. “Back in the Stacks: They’re Baaack.” Art News 116, no. 4 (2017): 77.
Blackburn, Sara. “The World of Lady Wrestlers.” Chicago Tibune, March 19, 1972.
Bochner, Mel. “In the Galleries: Rosalyn Drexler.” Arts Magazine 40, no. 7 (1966): 63.
Bottoms, Steve. “Interview” August 14, 1996.
Bourdon, David. “Art: A Bout With Rosalyn Drexler” Village Voice 10, no. 29 (1965): 13, 25.
Boyard, Anatole. “A Wrestler Defeats a Writer.” New York Times, February 12, 1972.
Brodin, Pierre. “Rosalyn Drexler,” Liberté 13, nos. 4–5 (1971): 150–56.
Bruckner, D. J. R. “‘Life and Death,’ by Rosalyn Drexler.” New York Times, April 20, 1986.
Calta, Louis. “Theater: ‘Home Movies’.” New York Times, May 12 1964.
Campbell, Lawrence. “Three More Faces of Eve.” Art News 63, no. 1 (1964): 30, 63–64.
Canady, John. “From Clean Fun to Plain Smut.” New York Times, January 7, 1964.
Clay, Carolyn. “State of the Art: Rosalyn Drexler.” The Boston Phoenix 27, no. 22 (1998): 5.
“Cliffhanger on Madison Avenue.” Time 88, no. 15 (1966): 100.
“Courtyard Gallery Presents Exhibit by the Drexlers.” Berkeley Daily Gazette, November 25, 1954.
Craft, Catherine. “Pop Art,” Burlington Magazine 143, no. 1177 (2001): 250-51.
Dannat, Adrian. “NY Artist Q&A: Rosalyn Drexler” Art Newspaper 40, no. 101 (2000): 77.
De Kooning, Elaine and Roslayn Drexler. “Dialogue.” ARTnews 69, no. 9 (1971): 40-42, 62-67.
DeSalvo, Donna. “Underrated, Overrated.” ARTnews 99, no. 11 (2000): 128.
Doran, Anne. “Rosalyn Drexler, ‘Vulgar Lives’.” Time Out, no. 993 (2015): 38.
Drexler, Rosalyn. "Influences: Rosalyn Drexler." Frieze, no. 190 (2017): 169–175.
———. “Dear.” Vogue161, no. 6 (1973): 116–17, 156–57.
———. “Movies: Rescuing Truth: Shrieks in the Night; The Dancer’s Art.” Vogue161, no. 6 (1973): 48.
———. “Taking it Off.”Ms.1, no. 3 (1972): 76–79, 122–23.
———. "Summer Reading." Artforum 55, no. 10 (2017): 85–84.
———. “The Rebellious Diary of a Robust Girl.” Provincetown Review (Summer 1961): 76-79.
———. “Artists’ Artists: Name a Work of Art by a Woman Made Before the Year 2000, That Has Influenced You.” Frieze Masters Magazine (2018): 98–117.
Drexler, Rosalyn with Elaine de Kooning, “Eight Artists Reply: Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists,” Art News (January 1971), pp. 40-41.
“The Drexlers at Home,” Location, vol. 1, no. 2, Summer 1964, pp. 75-80.
Douglas, S. “Yankee Go Home,” The Art Newspaper 12, no. 3 (2001): 31.
Duncan, Michael, “Rosalyn Drexler at Mitchell Algus and Nicholas Davies,” Art in America 88, no. 9 (2000): 152-3.
Eyen, Tom. “The Discreet Alarm of the Off Off Broadway Playwright.” New York Times, September 21, 1973.
Fallon, Roberta. “Resurrection Muse.” Philadelphia Weekly, March 31, 2004.
Feinstein, Roni. “Strangers No More.” Art in America 95, no. 6 (2007): 174–177.
Ferretti, Fred. “Briefs on the Arts: Rosalyn Drexler in a New Field.” New York Times, September 1, 1973.
Fisher, Jean. “Rosalyn Drexler at Grey Art Gallery and Study Center.” Artforum 25, no. 2 (1986): 127-28.
Fraser, Gerald C. “Going Out Guide.” New York Times, July 31, 1986.
Gilman. Richard. “Self-Discovery in the Bronx.” New York Times, June 13, 1965.
Glueck, Grace. “Try Your Supermarket.” New York Times, April 25, 1965.
Goldin, Amy. “In the Galleries: Rosalyn Drexler.” Arts Magazine 39, no. 10 (1965): 62.
Goulianos, Joan. “Women and the Avant-Garde Theater: Interviews with Rochelle Owens, Crystal Field, Rosalyn Drexler,” The Massachusetts Review 13, no. 1/2 (1972): 257-67.
Gross, Amy. “Riffs.” Village Voice 18, no. 25 (1973): 70, 92.
Gussow, Mel. “New Group to Offer Plays by Women.” New York Times. February 22, 1972.
———. “‘Starburn,’ Punk Rock.” New York Times, March 13, 1983.
———. “Women Write New Chapter in the Theater.” New York Times. June 8, 1979.
Harris, Gareth. “Art Basel Miami Beach’s Survey’: Blasts from the Past.” Financial Times, November 27, 2015.
Harris, Jessica. “Interview.” FromScratch. June 13, 2007.
Hirsch, Faye. “Rosalyn Drexler at Garth Greenan Gallery.” Art in America 103, no. 5 (2015): 157-58.
Hjortsberg, William. “Both Heroine and Book Are Funny Ha-Ha and Funny Weird.” New York Times, June 28, 1970.
Hoban, Phoebe. “Works in Progress: Rosalyn Drexler.” New York Times, May 15, 2015.
Holden, Stephen. “Stage: ‘Heart that Eats Itself,’ On Kafka.” New York Times, April 12, 1987.
“HOT: Zehn Künstler, Denen die Zukunft Gehört: Rosalyn Drexler.” Monopol, no. 8 (2007): 27.
Johnson, Ken. “Before the Rebellion, Playful Pop Art Novelty.” New York Times, October 14, 2010.
Johnston, Jill. “Reviews and Previews: Rosalyn Drexler and Tom Doyle ” ARTnews 62, no. 2 (1963): 14.
Kelly, Edward. “A Review of Neo-Dada.” Art Voices 3, no. 4 (1964): 11-14.
Kempton, Sally. “Perils of a Lady Wrestler.” New York Times, February 27, 1972.
Kennedy, Randy. “When the World Went Pop.” New York Times, April 8, 2015.
Klores, Dan. “Junior, the Kid, the Fight.” New York Times, March 31, 2012.
Kroll, Jack. “Fiction Roundup: One or Another.” Newsweek 75, no. 22 (1970): 87.
———. “On the Lam.” Newsweek 75, no. 6 (1970): 95.
———. “Tabloid Universe.” Newsweek 63, no. 13 (1964): 53.
Lamont, Rosette, C. “Rosalyn Drexler: The Desire to Astonish Oneself.” Other Stages 5, no. 13 (1983): 7-8.
———. “Rosalyn Drexler’s Semiotics of Instability,” Theater, Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theater 17, no. 1 (1985) 70-77.
Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher. “Vanishing Creams.” New York Times, June 5, 1970.
———. “Women in Pain . . . or Giggling.” New York Times, April 21, 1975.
Leverette, James. “A Writer’s Writer’s Opera,” Soho Weekly News, March 15, 1979.
Leverett, James. “Theater: A Writer’s Writer’s Opera.” Soho Weekly 6, no. 24 (1979): 55, 59.
Levin, Kim. “Rosalyn Drexler.” Village Voice 31, no. 31 (1986): 64-65.
Levine, Judith. “Rosalyn Drexler: Odd Woman Out.” SoHo Weekly 6, no. 32 (1979): 34, 50.
Levy, Adam Harrison. “Vulgar Lives.” The Design Observer, March 18, 2015.
Lingeman, Richard R. “The Inner Logic of Punk Rock.” New York Times, June 17, 1979.
McElreavy, T. “Rosalyn Drexler: Nothing Personal.” Art New England 19, no. 6 (1998): 40.
McGill, Douglas C. “Art People: She Also Was a Wrestler.” New York Times, August 15, 1986.
McQuaid, Cate. “Painting Violence as Art.” The Boston Globe, May 21, 1998.
Mednicov, Melissa L. “Pink, White, and Black: The Strange Case of James Rosenquist’s Big Bo.” Art Journal 73, no. 1 (2014): 61-75.
Minioudaki, Kalliopi. “Rosalyn Drexler: The Beautiful Stranger.” New York Arts Magazine (June 27, 2007).
———. “Women in Pop: Difference and Marginality” (PhD diss., Institute of Fine arts at New York University, 2009)
———. “Pop’s Ladies and Bad Girls: Evelyne Axell, Pauline Boty, and Rosalyn Drexler.” Oxford Art Journal 30, no. 3 (2007): 404–430.
“Mini Plays Due Weekends.” New York Times, April 10, 1969.
Morgan, Edwin. “Not much beneath the Skin.” New York Times, January 13, 1969.
“New Faces, New Forces, New Names in the Arts.” Harper’s Bazaar 96, no. 3019 (1963): 64-67.
Newhall, Edith. “Eye of the Prophet.” New York Magazine 19, no 31 (1986): 15.
Nusbaum, Eliot. “Drexler’s ‘Pulp’ work links ‘60s-‘80s styles.” Des Moines Sunday Register, November 30, 1986.
Oliver, Cordelia. “The line of Least Existence.” The Guardian, December 30, 1968.
Patterson, John. “’Vulgar Lives’ at LaMama High Kicking Hijinx.” The Villager 47, no. 28 (1979): 9.
Patterson, Valerie. “Reviews and Previews: Nine.” ARTnews 60, no. 4 (1961): 17.
Pease, Jude. “Nichols, Feiffer – Right or Wrong?: To the Editor.” New York Times, October 3, 1971.
Peiffer, Prudence. “Reviews: Rosalyn Drexler at Garth Greenan Gallery.” Artforum 56, no. 4 (2017): 195–96.
Perreault, John. "Season's Greetings." Soho News (September 28, 1978).
“Polytalent or The Muses Go Nuts.” Manhattan Plaza News (July 1986): 4.
Prescher, Dan. “Follow ‘The Line of Least Existance’.” Metropolitan, March 25, 1987.
R., S. “Not for the Nervous.” The Glasgow Herald, December 30, 1969.
Raynor, Vivien. “Reviews and Previews: Rosalyn Drexler.” ARTnews 59, no. 1 (1960): 18-19.
Richardson-Moore, Deb. “Rosalyn Drexler: Write, Artist and One-Time Wrestler.” GreenvillePiedmont, October 6, 1986.
“Rock and Roll.” New York Post, June 2, 1979.
Rogoff, Gordon. “Theater Whirled.” Village Voice 30, no. 17 (1985): 105.
“Rosalyn Drexler.” New Yorker 83, no. 8 (2007): 24.
Rosenthal, Nan. “New York: Gallery Notes.” Art in America 53, no. 2 (1965): 120.
Rubinstein, Raphael. “Varieties of Reclamation.” Art in America 104, no. 8 (2016): 96-105.
Russell, John. “Art: From Jan Groth, Tapestry and Drawing: Rosalyn Drexler and Ruth Abrams.” New York Times, July 25, 1986.
Saal, Rolleene W. “Pick of the Paperbacks.” Saturday Review 49, no. 22 (1966): 34.
Saiz, Laurel. “Rosalyn Drexler: The StageView Interview.” Stage View, no. 22 (1995): 2-3, 5.
Sanborn, Sara. “Rosalyn Drexler and Her Talking Dog: The Cosmopolitan Girl.” New York Times, March 30, 1975.
Sayre, Nora. “A Visit with Rosalyn Drexler at Whitney.” New York Times, February 27, 1975.
Schwabsky, Barry. “Rosalyn Drexler at Garth Greenan Gallery.” Artforum 53, no. 9 (May 2015): 375-76.
See, Sebastian. “Warhol on Fire.” Washington Post, December 4, 2019.
Seidel, Miriam. “Rosalyn Drexler at Rosenwald-Wold Gallery, University of the Arts.” Art in America 92, no. 11 (2004): 143-44.
Sheppard, Eugenia. “They Are Out to Brunch.” New York Post, February 2, 1963.
Simon, John. "Theatre Chronicle." The Hudson Review 17, no. 3 (1964): 421-430.
Smallwood, Christine. “New Books.” Harper’s Magazine 332, no. 1993 (2016): 79-80.
Smith, Michael. “Theatre: Home Movies.” Village Voice 9, no. 30 (1964): 13.
Sontag, Susan. “Going to the Theater, Etc.” Partisan Review 31, no. 3 (1964): 389-99.
Steadman, Ryan. “These are the 7 Must-See Booths at Art Basel Miami 2015.” Observer, November 30, 2015.
Stein, Ellin. “Punk/Funk a la Cocaine/Chow Mein.” Other Stages 5, no. 13 (1983): 7.
Steinberg, Sibyl S. and Jonathan Bing. “Forecasts: Fiction.” The Publishers Weekly 243, no. 7 (1996): 59.
Stewart, Matt. “All About Art Basel Miami Beach 2015.” Gotham Magazine (November 24, 2015): 64-65.
Sutherland, Amy. “Rosalyn Drexler: Likes a Little Humor with her Humanity.” Boston Globe, June 10, 2016.
Tannenbaum, Judith. “New Orleans: Six Women at Bienville.” Arts Magazine 48, no. 8 (1974): 74-75.
Tillim, Sidney. “In the Galleries: Rosalyn Drexler.” Arts Magazine 34, no. 6 (1960): 62.
———. “In the Galleries: Rosalyn Drexler.” Arts Magazine 38, no. 8/9 (1964): 39-40.
Trwehella, Timothy C. “Spotlight: All About Boxing.” New York Newsday, March 23, 1993.
Weller, Sheila. “Books: To Smithereens.” Rolling Stone, no. 119 (1972): 76.
Williams, Bob. “Doc, an MD Who Makes House Calls.” New York Post, August 4, 1975.
Wilson, Barbara. “Rosalyn Drexler: Out of Ring and onto Stage.” The Philadelphia Inquirer, January 25, 1970.
———. “Rosalyn Drexler: Out of Ring and onto Stage.” The Philadelphia Inquirer, January 25, 1970.
Wilson, Judith. “Rosalyn at Grey Art Gallery” Art in America 74, no. 11 (1986): 163-46.
Wood, Michael. “Squish.” The New York Review of Books 19, no. 2 (1972): 14-16.
Yau, John. “Rosalyn Drexler’s Noir Paintings.” Hyperallergic, March 15, 2015.
———. “Rosalyn Drexler with John Yau.” Brooklyn Rail (July/August 2007): 54-57.
