“It is impossible not to take notice of Shelley Duvall,” wrote Melissa Anderson in Artforum’s May 2018 issue. “She calls to mind a walking exclamation point.”

But, continues the critic, “if her striking physicality makes the first impression on the viewer, then her demeanor creates the most lasting one.”

This week, Artforum revisits Anderson’s ode to the iconic actress, who died on July 11 at the age of seventy-five.  —The editors