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Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Louise Bourgeois
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines

Louise Bourgeois

French-American, 1911 - 2010
Birth LocationParis, France
BiographyBegan career as a painter and engraver. 1940s began making abstracted elongated forms and clustered groups of abstract shapes painted black and white. 1960s began working with bronze and creating anthropomorphic forms and inside-out shapes which evoke the human body.
Birth Place
  • Paris
Death Place
  • New York