Feminist artist and writer Judy Chicago is donating her papers to the Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe College. Chicago is the creator of The Dinner Party, a large, triangular installation, which shook the art world in the 1980s. The masterpiece, which was executed between 1974 and 1979 with the participation of hundreds of volunteers, celebrates women in Western cultures by means of ceramics, embroidery, and other media.

"We are very excited about this collection," said Mary Maples Dunn, director of the Schlesinger Library, the foremost library on the history of women in the United States. "Judy Chicago has exerted widespread influence that extends far beyond the art world, and the materials she has given us will be a significant resource for many diverse lines of inquiry."

The Dinner Party, which was seen by millions in the United States and abroad during the 1980s, was exhibited in 1996 at UCLA's Armand Hammer Museum. In addition, Chicago and The Dinner Party were the subjects of a volume of critical essays entitled Sexual Politics: Judy Chicago's Dinner Party in a Feminist Art History (1996).