Marisol "Women and Dog" Postcard

$3.00 at Whitney Museum of American Art.

Equal parts painting, collage, carving, and assemblage, Women and Dog (1963-64) was inspired by sources as diverse as its constituent materials. Marisol worked in New York during the emergence of Pop Art in the early 1960s and was one of few women associated with the movement. This sculpture reflects the fascination with everyday life that was fundamental to Pop, and yet its larger-than-life, totemic forms and the multi-faced profiles of the figures belie influences from Pre-Colombian and Native American folk…