| Women's Table | |
|---|---|
| Artist | Maya Lin |
| Year | 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.
