Louise BOURGEOIS Louise Bourgeois is a celebrated American sculptor as well as a prolific printmaker, and is widely acknowledged as one of the most innovative and influential American Artists. Born in Paris in 1911, Bourgeois came to New York in 1938 and pursued a singular path in her art after World War II. She began to exhibit her work in the 1930s while working in the studio of the Modernist painter Fernand Léger. There she made friends with such artists as Joan Miró, Yves Tanguey and Le Corbusier and began to experiment with printmaking. Throughout her long career Bourgeois has produced intensely personal art, and her printed work explores on an intimate scale many of the same personal and artistic concerns as her sculpture. Today at the age of 92, Louise Bourgeois resides in New York City and continues to work in a variety of media, with which she makes powerful statements exploring recurring themes such as parental responsibility and the act of nurturing. Bourgeois' work is part of many public collections globally including the Davos Collection, Zurich, Switzerland; Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea Palazzo Forti, Verona, Italy; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas; Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York; Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, Missouri; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York.
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