Category: Women in the Arts
In this section, read about female artists, art collectors, art historians, and other overlooked women in the fields of art and art history.
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Still Life Paintings by Anne Vallayer-Coster
Anne Vallayer-Coster was an 18th-century French artist who specialized in still life. She was so good that she became official painter to Marie-Antoinette.
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Violet Oakley at the Woodmere Art Museum
Violet Oakley was a Philadelphia-area painter, illustrator, muralist, and designer. Find out what I learned about her at the Woodmere Art Museum.
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The Cathedrals of Broadway by Florine Stettheimer
The Cathedrals of Broadway, from a series of four paintings by American artist Florine Stettmheimer about life in 1920s-40s New York.
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Elizabeth Vigée Le Brun at the Met
My experience at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s major 2016 exhibition of works by Elizabeth Vigée Le Brun. Vigée Le Brun French Neoclassical and Rococo portrait painter and one of the first women to succeed as a professional portrait painter on a grand scale.
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Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney by Robert Henri
Robert Henri’s stunning portrait of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. Whitney was a sculptor, collector, and founder of the Whitney Museum. Henri was an important American portraitist.
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Edith Perry at the Window by Lilla Cabot Perry
American Impressionist Lilla Cabot Perry’s beautiful painting of her daughter sitting by the window.
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A Young Girl Dressed Up for Christmas (December 22nd)
For a fine art Advent calendar, a charming illustration of a well-dressed little girl by Kate Greenaway.
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A Still Life by Johanna Helena Looisen (December 20th)
Today’s painting, Still Life with Christmas Pudding, Holly and Wine, is my first Advent Calendar work by a female artist. I wasn’t specifically looking for a work by a female painter today, just as I wasn’t intentionally avoiding female artists for the first nineteen days. I’m featuring the painting because I love it; it’s compelling for…
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Rose Valland – Art Spy Extraordinaire
Rose Valland was a French museum administrator who worked as a spy and saved countless works of art during World War Two.
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The Art Deco Murals of Hildreth Meière
I briefly read about Art Deco designer Hildreth Meière last time I did work on Art Deco. I remember thinking it was cool and unusual that a female artist was responsible for some of the decoration in many of New York’s most significant Art Deco monuments, but I had no idea how cool she really was until I…
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Anna Hyatt Huntington’s Joan of Arc
The story of Anna Hyatt Huntington’s Joan of Arc, a monumental bronze equestrian sculpture in Riverside Park, New York City.
