Tina Blau with her Painting Wagon — and huge over-decorated hat (1911-12) — a photograph Spring in the Prater (1879) — a painting (black-and-white reproduction) Friends and readers, I’ve put off writing this short blog on another later 19th into 20th century woman artist/painter long enough. I am not going to find any more material […]
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Tina Blau (1845-1916): immersive industrial, agricultural, & park landscape artist — & teacher of women artists
Posted in 20th century, female archetypes, feminism, historical-literary study, women's art, womens lives, tagged 19th century, women artists on November 30, 2020| 10 Comments »
EC/ASECS at Staunton, Va; ASECS, Denver: Theater, Film, Landscape, Women artists
Posted in 18th century, 19th century, 20th century, adaptations, Austen film, costume drama, disabled women, female archetypes, feminism, heroines' texts, historical-literary study, jane austen films, landscapes, Mansfield Park, women's art, women's film, womens lives, tagged Gilpin, picturesque, theater on April 11, 2019| 1 Comment »
A 2017 production of Etheredge’s Man of Mode A painting of an unknown young woman in the Berger Collection, Denver Art Museum Friends and readers, I held off writing about the rest of the autumn EC/ASECS conference separate sessions this past fall at the East Central, American 18th century society, a regional group (for a brief account […]
Nellie Epps (1850-1929) brought back; the 2nd and a 3rd series of women artists
Posted in 19th century, 20th century, feminism, historical-literary study, women artists, women's art, womens lives, tagged Ellen Epps Gosse, women artists, women's life-writing on August 5, 2017| 2 Comments »
Dear Friends, It is gratifying to be told that one of your blogs has prompted another blogger to write further on its subjects: the woman in question was part of my two series thus far of women artists: Ellen Epps Gosse. Roger Wotton, Professor Emeritus of Biology at University College London, was moved to write […]
Whitney Chadwick: Women Artists, & the 20th century Surreal Movement:
Posted in 20th century, female archetypes, feminism, foremother poet, heroines' texts, women artists, women's art, womens lives, tagged Alice Neel, Dorothea Tanning, Dorothy Chadwick, Kati Horna, Kay Sage, Leonor Fini, Leonora Carrington, Meret Oppenheim, Paula Rego, Remedios Varo, surreal women artists, Valentine Penrose, women artists on March 9, 2017| 5 Comments »
Eileen Agar (1899-1991), a photo of herself (summer 1935) Remedios Varo (1908-63), The Flutist (1955) Carrington: I painted for myself. I never believed that anyone would exhibit or buy my work Dear friends and readers, At long last I return to my project on women artists (see first series). I had reached the mid- to […]
Linda Nochlin’s Why have there been no great women artists?
Posted in 20th century, feminism, reading life, women artists, women's art, womens lives, tagged Linda Nochlin, symbolic women, women artists, women's life-writing on April 8, 2016| 7 Comments »
Angelica Kauffman, A Turkish Lady Reclining, Gazing at a Miniature (1773) Friends and readers, Further to my coming blogs on women artists and while studying and reading about Angelica Kauffman and Anna Dorothea Therbusch (1721-82), last night I read Linda Nochlin’s famous (oft-referred to) essay, “Why have there been no great women artists?” (reprinted in […]
Women artists: a few thoughts on the “obstacle race”
Posted in 18th century, female archetypes, feminism, heroines' texts, women artists, women's art, tagged feminism, symbolic women on March 30, 2016| 2 Comments »
Angelica Kauffman (1741-1807), Penelope Taking Down the Bow of Ulysses (1788) Dear friends and readers, Lest you think I’ve given up on my women artists blogs, I write an interim few thoughts on the problems women had making money for their work. (See my last, later 17th century Mary Beale.) I’ve been reading a much […]
A Handy List of Women Artists thus far
Posted in disabled women, female archetypes, feminism, historical-literary study, politics, women artists, women's art, women's memoirs, womens lives, tagged feminism, women artists, women's life-writing on December 4, 2015| 20 Comments »
Mickalene Thomas (b. 1971) Fairy Tale (A Brooklyn Museun of Art exhibit — scroll down) Dear friends and readers, Now that I’ve finished the first round of my project, I want to gather the women thus far before returning to perhaps before the early modern period (Renaissance) to begin again. I will stay within the […]
Francoise Duparc (1726-1778) — and an early modern women artists conference
Posted in 18th century, early modern women, female archetypes, feminism, historical-literary study, women artists, women's art, women's memoirs, tagged feminism, Francoise Duparc, symbolic women, woman artists, women's life-writing on July 30, 2015| 15 Comments »
Woman Knitting (n.d.) Dear friends and readers, For our fifth subject, we have a woman painter about whom little is known. Her portraits are not of upper-class people, she does not reach any lessons, nor attempt to entertain or amuse. Her paintings fall under the rubric of “absorption” so long ago described by Michael Fried […]
ASECS 2015, LA: Working women: poets, artists, educators, concert organizers & gendered architecture & space
Posted in 18th century, conference-paper report, female archetypes, feminism, heroines' texts, historical-literary study, women's art, women's poetry, womens lives, tagged Alexander Pope, boudoirs, brothels, Elizabeth Hands, Empress Marie-Louise, Madame Campan, marguerite gerard, Marie Antoinette, Mary Wortley Montagu, Mme de Genlis, Rousseau, seraglios, women concert organizers on April 10, 2015| 4 Comments »
Madame de Genlis, as drawn by her daughter, Caroline Enfin, songez, mon cher Porphire, qu’il n’est qu’un temps de la vie pour ecrire & pour travailler, & que ce temps s’ecoule avec une extreme rapidite [remember there is only one time in life for writing, for working within, and it flows away oh so swiftly, […]
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