Mood Portraits

MOOD PORTRAITS OF WOMEN OF COURAGE

BACKGROUND: After running from the Trade Towers for an entire day on 9/11, Linda Stein had to vacate her downtown apartment and studio. For the next year, she stopped making sculpture, and created, instead, a series of “Mood Portraits” of women of courage, who have made a difference in the history of GENDER JUSTICE.

Stein thinks of this portrait series as a feminist labor of love, a “sideline” to her Knights of Protection series and her traveling solo exhibitions, including: The Fluidity of Gender and Holocaust Heroes: Fierce Females. With most of her portraits, the proceeds from sales go directly to the fund-raising non-profit corporations.

Each portrait is made with watercolors and gouache paints and then converted into a fine-art original print with archival inks (think etching or lithograph) with a limited edition of 85 prints. They are usually framed with archival 8-ply double matting.

Prints from this series are now in the permanent collections of international museums including: 

Alverno College, Milwaukee, WI, USA

Cafesjian Art Trust, Shoreview, MN, USA

The Hotchkiss School, Salisbury, CT, USA

Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, CT, USA

Mississippi University for Women Galleries, South Columbus, MS, USA

Ms. Foundation for Women, Brooklyn, NY, USA

Schingoethe Center, Aurora University, Aurora, IL, USA

Smith College Libraries, Northampton, MA, USA