‘I’m that little lady who made all this big stuff!’: Judy Chicago’s 60 years of monumental feminist art

San Francisco's de Young Museum honors the creator of The Dinner Party and a vast body of urgent work

Criticized at the time for an over-emphasis on white women and its stylized representations of vaginas, Judy Chicago's room-sized installation The Dinner Party has only recently come to be seen as a canonical example of late-20th-century art.

Created over a five-year period (1974-79) and consisting of 39 elaborate place settings, it imagines a meal shared by notable women throughout history, such as Elizabeth I, Sojourner Truth, and the goddess Ishtar.