Chronologically and Theme Organized

1958 - 2024


WORKS FROM 1958s - 1970S


Abstract Works & extension paintings 1958 - 1961

Children´s Games Series 1960 - 1962

Portraits, 1960-1970ss


Acrobats, Oil Painting, 1960s

Watercolors 1961 - 1966

Tattoo Paintings 1962 

Wall Series, Portraits, and Figures 1962 - 1978

Sculptures 60s-70s

Back Painting series 1972  - 1975

Pastels 1970  - 1971

Womenhero in The Sister Chapel, Rowan University, 1974


June Blum / Maureen Connor / Martha Edelheit / Elsa M. Goldsmith / Shirley Gorelick / Ilise Greenstein / Betty Holliday / Diana Kurz / Cynthia Mailman / Alice Neel / Sylvia Sleigh / May Stevens / Sharon Wybrants  


From the book 

The Art of the Sister Chapel, Andrew D. Hottle book, 2014, Routledge


"In a small study, executed in acrylic and ink, Martha Edelheit identified her allegorical female role model as Hero Woman. She eventually transposed and elided the two-word appellation to form a neologism, Womanhero. Although Womanhero unequivocally replicates the pose of Michelangelo's David, Edelheit significantly transformed the biblical hero of her sixteenth- century forebear. Edelheit's fascination with the interchangeability of gender, which indisputably influenced Womanhero, is already evident in her erotic watercolors, executed between 1961 and 1966, especially the fragmented paper doll motifs that eventually found another form of expression in Anna and David and Portraits: Flesh and Stone. "

Selfportraits 1975

Tool Paintings 1972 and 1975

Flesh and Stone Series, 1978


WORKS FROM 1980S


String drawings, 80s

Cutouts: 2 sided painted sculptures 1979-1985

Cutouts: 3 sided painted sculptures, 1980-1985

Monoprints 1983-1986

Paper Doll Cutout Book 1984

Oil Pastel 1985

Colored pencil, ink & graphite 1985

Bronze Sculptures 1988

WORKS FROM 1990S


Grief paintings 1990 - 1992

Bateaux des Revés, Central Park, 1991

Ink Drawings, 1992

The Ice Dancers 1998

Animal Portraits, acrylic on linen, 1990s to early 2000 

Animal Portraits, watercolors, 1990s to early 2000

WORKS FROM 2000-2009


Wire and Welded Iron Sculptures, Paintings and Constructions, 2000-2009

Sheep Portraits on Chicken Wire and Papier-mâché, 2000-2007


WORKS FROM 2015-2017


Watercolors 2015

USA NOV 8 2016

Abortion Drawings 2017

MOST RECENT WORK 2019-2021