Anita Steckel

She was also the founder of the arts organization "The Fight Censorship Group", whose other members included Hannah Wilke, Louise Bourgeois, Judith Bernstein, Martha Edelheit, Eunice Golden, Juanita McNeely, Barbara Nessim, Anne Sharpe and Joan Semmel.

As a single young woman, Steckel dated Marlon Brando and worked on a Norwegian freighter that traveled to South America for two months.

[9] In 1972, her work was exhibited at the Women's Interart Center in New York alongside pieces by the influential feminist artists Judy Chicago, Miriam Schapiro and Faith Ringgold.

[4][6] The exhibition was controversial because Steckel's work was sexually explicit and some local authorities called for the closure of the show, or at least to move it to a "more appropriate venue", such as the men or women's restroom.

[2] In Skylines of New York the Hudson River is filled with gefilte fish and Hitler "is depicted as a patriarchal menace with his throat being sliced by a nude female figure wielding an ax between her legs.