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ID: 500069909
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500069909

 

Record Type: Person
Knowles, Alison (American mixed-media and performance artist, 1933-2025)

Note: An early participant in the Fluxus group in New York City, she was perhaps best known for pieces that involved a tuna sandwich and a large iceberg lettuce salad which she began as “The Identical Lunch,” in 1967.

Names:
Knowles, Alison (preferred,V,index,LC,English-P,NA)
Alison Knowles (V,display)

Nationalities:
American (preferred)

Roles:
artist (preferred)
mixed-media artist
performance artist
conceptual artist

Gender: female

Birth and Death Places:
Born:  New York City (New York state, United States) (inhabited place)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:
collaborated with ....  Varble, Stephen  
................................  (American performance artist, 1946-1984) [500074221]
member of ....  Fluxus  
................  (International group of artists, active 1960s-late 1970s) [500125040]
spouse of ....  Higgins, Dick  
................  (American mixed-media artist and painter, 1938-1998) [500034921]

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Persons, Artists
 ........  Knowles, Alison (I)

Biographies:
(American mixed-media and performance artist, 1933-2025) ..... [VP Preferred]
(American artist, born 1933) ..... [BHA]
(artist) ..... [GRI Special Collections]
(artist, active 20th century) ..... [GRISC]
(American artist, born 1933) ..... [MoMA]
(American artist, 1933-) ..... [RKD]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
Alison Knowles ........ [GRISC, MoMA, VP]
..............................  Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
..............................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
..............................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
Knowles, Alison ........ [BHA Preferred, GRISC Preferred, MoMA Preferred, RKD Preferred, VP]
................................  Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
................................  BHA, Authority file (1973-)
................................  GRI Special Collections Finding Aids databases (1980-) 2006M8; 890164
................................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
................................  Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-) n 84021038
................................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 299001

Subject: ........ [BHA, Gallery Systems, GRISC, MoMA, RKD, VP]
....................  askART (2000-) accessed 20 July 2007
....................  BHA, Authority file (1973-)
....................  Gallery Systems (2000-) LOC ID: n84021038
....................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
....................  GRI Special Collections Finding Aids databases (1980-)
....................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
....................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) LOC ID: n84021038
....................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 299001
....................  Who Was Who in America (1899-1890-) 1976
....................  Wikidata online (2000-) Q243078
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
.......... New York Times [online] (2000-) https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/arts/alison-knowles-dead.html
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