Linda McCartney made a career in art at a time when the terms of that career were still being set.
The record lists Linda McCartney as American photographer, musician and animal rights activist (1941–1998).
Linda McCartney was born at Manhattan in 1941. Her recorded nationality is the United States. She was educated at Scarsdale High School.
The twentieth century made work collective, expensive and political, with consequences that reached well beyond the people doing it.
She worked as singer, photographer and keyboardist.
Art history is a record of what got kept, which is not the same as what was best.
Her work was formally recognised with the Ellis Island Medal of Honor.
Working from the United States shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have her, the language the work first appeared in.
Linda McCartney died in 1998, aged 57. What survives is the work, which is the only durable form of a reputation.
Achievements
- Educated at Scarsdale High School
- Worked as singer, photographer and keyboardist
