Chronologically and Theme Organized

1958 - 2024


*Starred works are in Sweden



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 serie 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

Currently in Sweden*


WORKS FROM 1980S


String drawings, 80s

Currently in Sweden*

Cutouts: 2 sided painted sculptures 1979-1985

Currently in Sweden*