She was the toast of the town in 1960s Manhattan, but by the dawn of the next decade, Marisol had all but been forgotten. Born in 1930 in Paris to wealthy Venezuelan parents, Maria Sol Escobar, who ...

Marisol Escobar, whose penetrating and playful, large-scale wooden sculptures were their own unique blend of Pop and folk art, died on Saturday morning, April 30, at the age of 85, El Universal ...

The Buffalo museum is now the go-to source for understanding the work of the late Pop Art trailblazer. Portrait of French-born artist Marisol Escobar poses with some of her carved wooded sculptures.

The “first girl artist with glamour.” So said Andy Warhol in 1964 of his Pop art contemporary and friend Marisol. Cringeworthy now, the notoriously image-conscious Warhol likely meant it as a ...

Nancy Astor, Marisol with several of her sculptures (1964), photographic print (image courtesy Buffalo AKG Art Museum) DALLAS — It is difficult to say which surprises more after viewing this ...

Marisol Escobar (1930-2016), the Paris-born, Venezuelan American artist who went by her first name and became one of the most famous figures of the US Pop art movement in the 1960s, continued making ...