Loretta Dunkelman

{{short description|American artist}}

Loretta Dunkelman, (born 1937 in Paterson, NJ){{cite web |title=Loretta Dunkelman - Biography |url=https://www.askart.com/artist/Loretta_Dunkelman/100401/Loretta_Dunkelman.aspx |website=AskArt |access-date=24 January 2022}} is an American artist based in New York City, NY. She studied at what is now Rutgers University, but was the New Jersey College for Women and later the Doulgass Residential College, where she completed a Bachelor's Degree in Art in 1958{{Cite book|last=Marter|first=Joan M.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-P-9DwAAQBAJ&q=%22Loretta+Dunkelman%22+ny+times&pg=PT55|title=Women Artists on the Leading Edge: Visual Arts at Douglass College|date=2019-10-07|publisher=Rutgers University Press|isbn=978-0-8135-9336-4|language=en}} and completed a Master's Degree at Hunter College in 1966.{{Cite book|last1=Heller|first1=Jules|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AYxmAgAAQBAJ&q=%22Loretta+Dunkelman%22+ny+times&pg=PA165|title=North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary|last2=Heller|first2=Nancy G.|date=2013-12-19|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-63882-5|language=en}}

Dunkelman is a co-founder of the A.I.R. Gallery, which claims to be the first not-for-profit, artist-directed and maintained gallery for women artists in the United States.{{Cite web|url=https://www.airgallery.org/history|title=History|website=A.I.R.|language=en-US|access-date=2020-03-05}} She was also a member of the Ad Hoc Committee of Women Artists. She co-organized the notable group show Thirteen Women Artists in 1972, which was mounted at 117 Prince Street.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YImzM1Sj5sMC&q=%22Thirteen+Women+Artists%22+loretta&pg=PA24|title=New York Magazine|date=1972-04-03|publisher=New York Media, LLC|language=en}}

Her image is included in the iconic 1972 poster Some Living American Women Artists by Mary Beth Edelson.{{cite web |title=Some Living American Women Artists/Last Supper |url=https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/some-living-american-women-artistslast-supper-76377 |website=Smithsonian American Art Museum |access-date=24 January 2022}}