Maude Boltz

Boltz was born in 1939 in Pottsville, Pennsylvania.^[1][2] She attended the Philadelphia College of Arts and Yale University. In 1972 Boltz co-founded the A.I.R. Gallery, a female artists cooperative gallery in New York City.^[3][4] In 1978 Boltz's work was included in a show at MoMA PS1 entitled Overview: An Exhibition in Two Parts by the A.I.R. Gallery.^[5] She died in 2017.^[4]

Her image is included in the iconic 1972 poster Some Living American Women Artists by Mary Beth Edelson.^[6]

Boltz's work is in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum^[2] and the Whitney Museum of American Art.^[7]

• images of Boltz's work on Women in the Arts Foundation
• Remembering Maude Boltz on the A.I.R. Gallery website