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*