Yes, You Can
Ida Applebroog (American, 1929–2023)
Yes, You Can, 1996
Photogravure on Okawara machine-made paper with hand-torn deckle edges
13 × 16 in.
Edition 74/100
Framed.
Applebroog's work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim, the Whitney Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She received a MacArthur Fellowship and the College Art Association's Lifetime Achievement Award. Represented by Hauser & Wirth.
A photogravure on handmade Japanese paper with torn deckle edges. Applebroog spent five decades making work about power, gender, and the domestic theater of American life. The title reads like a campaign slogan — cheerful on the surface, unsettling underneath. That tension runs through everything she made.