Joan Semmel

Joan Semmel
Semmel at the Jewish Museum in front of her painting Sunlight 1978 in Scenes from the Collection
Born(1932-10-19)October 19, 1932
New York City, NY, U.S.
Known forPainting
MovementFigurative art, Feminist Art, Second-wave feminism

Joan Semmel (born October 19, 1932) is an American feminist painter and professor emeritus in painting. She is best known for her large-scale naturalistic nude self portraits as seen from her perspective looking down.