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Paula Butterfield
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La Luministe is my historical/biographical novel about Berthe Morisot, the first woman Impressionist. Film aficionado, pasta enthusiast, Pacific Northwesterner.
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Shower in Late Autumn,by Uemura Shōen.
#FallFriday
For #NationalAppleDay, a sampler by the appropriately named Mary Applewhite, completed in 1855 when she was 12 years old.
#TextileArt #Needlepoint
German Expressionist Gabriele Münter's Stafflesee in autumn. #FallFriday
While 18th c. French court painters like #ElisabethVigéeLebrun were painting the 1%, #FrançoiseDuparc (#BOTD in 1726) depicted the working class people of her time.
For #IndigenousPeoplesDay, art by native women artists from the Native Fashion Now show held at Portland Art Museum in 2016.
Undergrowth in Autumn, Berthe Morisot
#FallFriday
The Autumn, by Venetian pastel artist Rosalba Carriera.
#FallHarvest
Argentinian artist Marta MInujin created this Parthenon of Books (25,000 of them) on the site of book burnings in Kassel, Germany as a statement about free speech.
#BannedBooksWeek
For the #FirstDayOfOctober, images of autumn. Mary Oliver captures the the comfort of piled leaves and the shifting of the firewood.
Happy birthday to sculptor Louise Nevelson (#BOTD in 1899) and painter Suzanne Valadon (#BOTD in 1865). And their cats, of course.
The Ballet Girl & The Dressmaker, by Laura Knight (1930). A bit of the behind-the-scenes feel of Degas, don't you think?
#NationalDanceDay
Such a good synopsis of #HildegardVonBingen's life. She was known as the Sybil of the Rhine. Today we would call her an eco-feminist, among many other labels. Be sure to scroll down and listen to some of her musical compositions. Her plate in The Dinner Party resembles a Gothic stained glass window.
Here are two portraits of traditional Mexican women, from the mid-20th c. Donna di Tehuantepec, by Tina Modotti, and De Generación en Generación, by Lola Álvarez Bravo. #HispanicHeritageMonth
For Marianne von Werefkin's birthday (#BOTD in 1860), here's a portrait of her, by her friend, Gabrielle Münter. Both were involved in the avant-garde #GermanExpressionist movement which stressed emotions rather than objective reality.
Self-portrait by Marie-Gabrielle Capet, allegedly painted on her 22nd birthday #OTD in 1781. French #Neo-classical portraitist, student of Adélaïde Labille-Guiard.
Elin Danielson-Gambogi (#BOTD in 1861) was the first professional woman artist in Finland. She married an Italian artist and lived the rest of her life in Italy. The asymmetrical composition of The Pianist appears to be more about the piano than the player. #WomenArtists
You can read my review of B.A. Shapiro's The Lost Masterpiece (about a painting by Manet, rescued [?] by Berthe Morisot) at bit.ly/4lf7xbx.
Gaslight
Godfather(s)
My Brilliant Career
Flowers and Shells, Maria van Oosterwyck (#BOTD in 1630) Hope your summer day includes one or the other! #FlowerPainters #DutchGoldenAge
Anna Ancher (#BOTD in 1859) captures the late summer light in Harvesters. #SkagenArtists #DanishWomenArtists
It's still #NationalTeaWeek in the UK. Here is illustrator Kate Greenaway's Tea Party.
Woman Drinking Tea, by Lila Cabot Perry.
It's #NationalTeaWeek in the UK.