Marilyn Minter's enamel on metal portrait of #GloriaSteinem. #RIP to a woman who has been an inspiration for the last 50 years.
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La Luministe is my historical/biographical novel about Berthe Morisot, the first woman Impressionist. Film aficionado, pasta enthusiast, Pacific Northwesterner.
It was the mid-70s; I was having breakfast at The Magic Pan (does anyone remember how trendy crêpes were then?) in Beverly Hills when a limo pulled up and Dolly Parton got out.
Lavinia Fontana, #BOTD in 1552, is considered the first female professional painter in Western Art. She was given a state funeral upon her death, and a special medal with her image was created. Please note that she had 11 children. Art by @trudilula
American Pre-Raphaelite Mary Lizzie Macomber (#BOTD in 1861) painted Fate Spinning the Wheel of Time in a dreamy sfumato style.
For #NationalPhotographyDay, Bay Area photographer Imogen Cunningham's pictures of Mills College dancers.
Black Cat Appreciation Day is celebrated annually on August 17th. Sita and Sarita, c.1921, by Cecilia Beaux (1855 - 1942) Oil on canvas / 44 5/8" × 33" / The Corcoran Collection at the National Gallery of Art
To finish #AfternoonTeaWeek, Danish artist #BerthaWegmann's Two Friends Having Tea in the Artist's Studio. Wegmann, the first woman admitted to the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, was a prolific painter who died at age 79 while painting in her studio.
American Impressionist Lilla Cabot Perry's Lady at the Tea Table shares her tea and biscuits with her dog. From 1905, a while after French Impressionism had its day. #AfternoonTeaWeek
Mary Cassatt was particularly interested in depicting the tea party. The Tea shows Cassatt's Impressionistic style, while Afternoon Tea, one of her Japanese Ukiyo-e style woodblock prints, simplifies shapes and lines. #AfternoonTeaWeek
For #AfternoonTeaWeek, paintings by #Impressionist women artists. The movement focused on scenes of daily life, and women's art focused more narrowly on the spaces they were allowed to occupy, like the tea table. Here is #BertheMorisot's Tea.
It's the 64th anniversary of #MarilynMonroe's death. Here is one of Audrey Flack's vanitas paintings of the actress illustrating the ephemeral nature of fame, beauty, life: the Queen of Hearts, a valentine, roses which will wilt, and a candle in the wind. #Photorealism
For #NationalSistersDay, here are Virginia Woolf & Vanessa Bell, Frida & Christina Kahlo, and Georgia & Ida O'Keeffe.
#JudithLeyster (#BOTD in 1609) painted for a mere six years before marriage and maternal duties derailed her. During that time, she was admitted to the Saint Luke's [Artists] Guild of Haarlem AND had a precious tulip named after her. This S-P shows Leyster's pride in her work.
Late-Renaissance artist Elisabetta Sirani's Santa Maria Magdalena, for her feast day. #WomenArtists
Like Eugène Atget, who documented 19th c. Paris as it moved into modernity (Corset Shop, below), #BereniceAbbott (#BOTD in 1898) recorded 20th century New York City as it changed (Storefront). Both shops were likely replaced by the new department stores. #WomenPhotographers
Eighteenth-century French painter Anne Vallayer-Coster was known for her flower paintings and genre scenes, but this marine-themed still life is my fave, and appropriate as I head to the coast for a birthday jaunt! #WomenArtists
I've never seen this painting before--a breathtaking work by our Old Mistress!
Dr. Peter Paul Rubens@peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 2mo agoMagnificent portrait of a woman, 1620, by Artemisia Gentileschi. She was born on this day in 1593.
#HBD to #FridaKahlo, #BOTD in 1907. As a disabled person, Frida often found it easiest to be her own model. Wearing traditional garb and embellishing herself with flowers and jewelry, she was her own work of art. #LaPatrona #MexicanArt
Everyone's on their way to the #July4th gathering depicted by #GrandmaMoses, whose work is synonymous with Americana. We've got flags, a picnic, a baseball game, and even a cannon ready to blow!
It's still #InsectWeek! Even Rachel Ruysch, arguably the greatest flower painter of the Dutch Golden Age, included them in this painting: Fruits, Flowers, and Insects. I see butterflies and a huge beetle. Am I missing anything?
For #NationalPinkDay, here are subdued pastels by Hilma af Klint (Group 1) and Helen Frankenthaler (Reflections), as well as shocking pink works by Lee Krasner (Combat) and Grace Hartigan (Untitled).
Flowers, Insects, and Shells, by Dutch Golden Age painter Margaretha De Heer. #InsectWeek #RoyalEntomologicalSociety
Berthe Morisot's sunny painting of her husband, Eugène Manet and daughter Julie playing with her red boat in a pond is perfect for #SummerSolstice and #FathersDay.
Shahzia Sikander (#BOTD in 1969) combines elements of Persian miniature painting with historical (a classical Greek nude sculpture, traditional dancers) & contemporary references (the jet at the top, the bold gaze of the horned woman looking back at the viewer) in Pleasure Pillars. #WomenArtists
Julia Margaret Cameron's (#BOTD in 1815) May Day is the photographic corollary of Dante Rossetti's The Beloved. She created #PreRaphaelite paintings on film.
