Women's Table

Women's Table
ArtistMaya Lin
Year1993 (1993)

The Women's Table is a 1993 sculpture by Maya Lin in front of Sterling Memorial Library at Yale University. Made of black stone carved with a spiral of numbers marking the enrollment of women in the university in a given year, the work is dedicated to the many women who had been underacknowledged presences at the university since the 19th century.[1] Lin, a graduate of Yale College, was commissioned to create the work in 1989, the twentieth anniversary of the admission of women to Yale College.[2] After the work had been installed and unveiled, visitors noticed that the inscription carved into the table erroneously called it the "Womens' Table," misplacing the apostrophe.[3] The error has since been fixed, although the patchwork remains visible.

References

  1. ^ Cotter, Holland (May 7, 2009). "Where the Ocean Meets the Mountains". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331.
  2. ^ "Study for "The Women's Table" Yale University Art Gallery". artgallery.yale.edu. Retrieved October 31, 2025.
  3. ^ "Sculpture's Fountain Bubbles Over". The Chronicle of Higher Education. October 20, 1993. Retrieved October 31, 2025.

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