Twenty Six Contemporary Women Artists

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{{short description|Art exhibition held at Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, April 18 - June 13, 1971.}}

Twenty Six Contemporary Women Artists was an art exhibition held at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum from April 18 - June 13, 1971.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=26 contemporary women artists : exhibition / organized by Lucy R. Lippard at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut, April 18-June 13, 1971 |url=https://www.si.edu/object/26-contemporary-women-artists-exhibition-organized-lucy-r-lippard-aldrich-museum-contemporary-art:siris_sil_638360 |website=Smithsonian Institution |access-date=1 April 2025 |language=en}} It was the first show curated by Lucy R. Lippard.{{cite web |last1=Schwartz |first1=Alexandra |title=How a Landmark Feminist Show Got Erased From Collective Memory |url=https://hyperallergic.com/788475/lucy-lippard-feminist-show-got-erased-from-collective-memory/ |website=Hyperallergic |access-date=1 April 2025 |date=19 December 2022}} Lippard only included artists who had never had a solo exhibition.{{cite web |title=How These 7 Exhibitions by Women Artists Changed Art History Forever |url=https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2024/03/04/major-exhibitions-women-artists-history |website=Cultured Magazine |access-date=1 April 2025 |language=en}} It featured 26 emerging New York based women artists.{{cite web |last1=Cane |first1=Hesper |title=Pivotal Exhibitions by Women Artists That Changed Art History |url=https://www.widewalls.ch/magazine/exhibitions-women-artists/twenty-six-contemporary-women-artists |website=widewalls |access-date=1 April 2025}}

In the preface to the catalog for the show Lippard stated:{{cite web |title=Twenty Six Contemporary Women Artists |url=https://thealdrich.org/exhibitions/twenty-six-contemporary-women-artists |website=The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum |access-date=1 April 2025 |language=en}}

{{blockquote|The woman artist has tended to be seen either as another artist's wife, or girl, or as a dilettante. Now I know that, contrary to popular opinion, women are not any more "part-time artists" than anyone else.}}