Miscellaneous. Art. "I had thought that the quality of my work would exempt me from the prejudice and constriction suffered by earlier generations of women. It did not. In 1982 I gathered statistics comparing teaching positions, reviews and exhibitions of women and men in Boston. They were unequal. Naming the situation made it easier for me to work. I thought about that until it seemed funny. We live in a penis world."

Author Hometown: AUBURNDALE, MA USA



About the author: Jo Ann Rothschild is an abstract painter and the first recipient of the Maud Morgan purchase prize from the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Rothschild received a grant in painting from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. In addition to the BMFA her work is in the collections of the Fogg Museum at Harvard, Mills College and Taller Experimental Graphico in Havana, Cuba. Cuba hosted her first retrospective at the National Theater Building. Her work has been exhibited in Germany, New York, Chicago and Boston.