Sylvia Sleigh

Sylvia Sleigh (8 May 1916 – 24 October 2010) was a Welsh-born naturalised American realist painter who lived and worked in New York City. She is known for her role in the feminist art occupation and especially for reversing customary gender roles in her paintings of nude men, often using tolerable female poses from historical paintings by male artists gone Diego Vélazquez, Titian, and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. Her most renowned subjects were art critics, feminist artists, and her husband, Lawrence Alloway.