Maude Boltz

Maude Boltz was an American artist and co-founder of the A.I.R. Gallery.

Biography

Boltz was born in 1939 in Pottsville, Pennsylvania. 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. 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. She died in 2017.
Her image is included in the iconic 1972 poster Some Living [American Women Artists (collage) | Some Living American Women Artists] by Mary Beth Edelson.
Boltz's work is in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Whitney Museum of American Art.