SoHo 20 Gallery (painting)
{{Short description|1974 diptych oil painting by Sylvia Sleigh}}
{{Infobox Painting
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| title = SoHo 20 Gallery
| artist = Sylvia Sleigh
| year = 1974
| medium = Oil on canvas
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| width_imperial = 96 x 2 panels
| height_imperial = 72
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| museum = Private Collection
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SoHo 20 Gallery is a diptych painting by American artist Sylvia Sleigh containing portraits of the collective members of the New York art gallery SoHo 20 Gallery. It is oil on canvas with each panel measuring 72" X 96".{{cite book |last1=Broude |first1=Norma |last2=Garrard |first2=Mary D. |last3=Brodsky |first3=Judith K. |title=The power of feminist art : the American movement of the 1970s, history and impact |date=1994 |publisher=H.N. Abrams |location=New York |isbn=978-0810937321 |pages=110–111}} Sleigh also created a group portrait of the A.I.R. Gallery members.{{cite web |last1=Grimes |first1=William |title=Sylvia Sleigh, Provocative Portraitist and Feminist Artist, Dies at 94 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/26/arts/design/26sleigh.html |website=The New York Times |access-date=27 July 2021 |date=26 October 2010}} The Brooklyn Rail stated that the paintings could be "read today like detailed history paintings that record the birth of the Feminist Art Movement".{{cite web |last1=Moyer |first1=Carrie |title=Sylvia Sleigh |url=https://brooklynrail.org/2010/02/artseen/sylvia-sleigh |website=The Brooklyn Rail |access-date=27 July 2021 |date=3 February 2010}}
In 2019 the SoHo 20 Gallery group portrait was included in the exhibition "Women Defining Themselves, Original artist of the SOHO20" at the Rowan University Art Gallery in Glassboro, New Jersey.{{cite web |title=The Original Artists of SOHO 20 at Rowan University |url=https://southjerseyvisualarts.home.blog/tag/feminism/ |website=South Jersey Visual Art |access-date=27 July 2021 |language=en}}
Members depicted in the painting
(identified in "The Power of Feminist Art")
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- Elena Borstein
- Barbara Colemen
- Maureen Connor
- May Ann Gillies
- Joan Glueckman
- Eunice Golden
- Marge Helenchild
- Cynthia Mailman
- Marion Ranyak
- Marilyn Raymond
- Rachel Rolon de Clet
- Halina Rusak
- Lucy Salick
- Rosalind Shaffer
- Sylvia Sleigh
- Eileen Spikol
- May Stevens
- Suzanne Weisberg
- Sharon Wybrants
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