Josiah #Wedgwood hired aristocratic women to lure their kind as customers. Here are Elizabeth Upton, Lady Templetown's plaque, Lady Diana Beauclerk's wine cooler, Bacchanalian Boys, and Emma Crewe's sugar bowl, Reading Lesson. #NeoclassicalSculpture #WomensHistoryMonth
The Education of the Virgin, by Spanish Baroque sculptor Luisa Roldán. Typically, 17th c. artists used polychrome on soft wood. Here, a legendary scene of Mary being taught to read by her mother, St. Anne.
#WomensHistoryMonth #WomenArtists #HispanicArtists #Sculpture
One would think there were many women sculptors during the Renaissance, but Vasari mentions only one: Properzia de'Rossi. She began by carving scenes on peach pits but went on to create bas reliefs like Joseph and Potiphar's Wife-who doesn't want him to go!
#InternationalWomensDay #WomenArtists
Sabina von Seinbach's father & brother were stone masons for Notre Dame de Strasbourg during the 1st half of the 14th century. Legend has it that they asked Sabina to create sculptures of Ecclesia & Synagoga, symbolizing Christianity & Judaism. #WomensHistoryMonth #MedievalArt
For #WomensHistoryMonth, I'm featuring sculptors in Western art history, starting with Kora of Sicyon (7th c. BCE). She allegedly traced the shadow of her lover on a wall, inspiring the 1st bas relief.
As #BlackHistoryMonth draws to a close: Mickalene Thomas's Les Trois Femmes Noire, her interpretation of Manet's Luncheon on the Grass.
Jane Stuart, the daughter of George Washington portraitist Gilbert Stuart, made copies of her father's paintings (although he never gave her lessons) after he died and she needed to support the family. Here is her version of the president. #WashingtonsBirthday
Elizabeth Shoumantoff painted 3,000 portraits during her lifetime, mostly of prominent Americans. She painted the official portraits of FDR and LBJ. Roosevelt died during his sitting, leaving this work to be finished later.
#PresidentsDay #WomenArtists
Grace Hartigan received this "Valentine object" from Joseph Cornell, a play on her name: heart-igan.
#ValentinesDay
Are you surrounded by dirty snow? Joan Mitchell felt your pain when she created Sale Neige, although somehow she made it beautiful.
#AbstractExpressionism #WomenArtists #WinterWeather
Nigerian artist Marcellina Oseghale Akpojotor uses traditional ankara frabric in her mixed-media work. Here are A Beautiful Day and Quest for Ancient Truth.
#BlackHistoryMonth #WomenArtists
To kick off #BlackHistoryMonth, here is a self-portrait of Lois Mailou Jones, a #HarlemRenaissance artist who incorporated African, Haitian, and African-American themes into her paintings.
Such an interesting pairing! Quite familiar with both works, yet never thought of comparing/contrasting them. Thanks!
Once a year, on #EdouardManet's birthday (#BOTD in 1832) I make an exception to my rule of featuring #WomensArt and share one of Manet's portraits of his painting colleague. Here is #BertheMorisot with A Bouquet of Violets.
In honor of #SquirrelAppreciationDay, here's a still life by Clara Peeters featuring a majestic specimen. It's also #NationalHugDay, but you probably don't want to combine the two celebrations!
Martin Luther King, Jr., by Alicia Van Noy.
#MLKDay
For #NationalHatDay, here is one of Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun's self-portraits in her favorite hat. She had many of her models wear it, too, because she liked the shadow it cast.
Lilla Cabot Perry (#BOTD in 1848) in was an American Impressionist whom Monet considered his equal. Impressionism was influenced by Japanese art, so she came full circle when she lived and painted in Japan for a time. Below: The Picture Book.
#WomenArtists #Impressionism
#AdorationoftheMagi, 1590, by #LaviniaFontana (Italian, 1552-1614). Held by Le musée Thomas Henry; source, commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ad... #womenartists #artherstory #Epiphany #ThreeKings #FeastOfEpiphany
For #NationalBirdDay, here is Gabrielle Münter's contemplative Breakfast With The Birds.
When I first taught courses about women artists, reading 3 articles in the NY Times (1/1/26) would have been a fantasy.
bit.ly/4sqimvy Expressionist Gabrielle Münter
bit.ly/494KLzE Finnish artist Helene Schjerfbeck
bit.ly/4qIMOzv Photorealist Janet Fish
After the 1989 earthquake in S.F., I moved to Oregon only to learn that the PNW was expecting a 9 pt. trembler.
Tilt is about a woman surviving The Big One & crossing Portland on foot (on her due date) to find her husband. Highly recommend this story of survival, applicable to any natural disaster!
Isola is about a pampered 16th c. aristocrat who is abandoned on an icy island in New France (Canada). Do you think you would survive a winter in these circumstances?
I read lots of good books this year, but the two that will stick with me are about survival. Read these to glean some tips on how to get through 2026!
Florine Stettheimer's Christmas, 1923. May you all reach that point in the day when you can enjoy a languid lounge!
#Christmas2025
Josefa de Abidos, Nativity.
#ChristmasEve
Winter, by Wendy Red Star.
#WinterSolstice
If you've seen the current Manet & Morisot show in S. F. and you'd like to know more about Berthe Morisot's light-filled art-- as well as how she survived the Siege of Paris...and the love of Edouard Manet--La Luministe is available at Amazon, Bookshop, Barnes & Noble, !ndigo, or Regal House Pub.
I Lit All My Candles, by Hildegard Rath (1952)
#Hanukkah #Expressionism
