Hall of Fame

Hall of Fame: art herstory list with archive posts about the lesbian artists

• Claude Cahun: Before the Binary (4/26/2025) - Video (4:07): Cory Yoesting educating us about LGBTQ history and culture. This episode of her podcast is about French lesbian artist Claude Cahun.
• MANIFEST Yourself! (Queer) Feminist Manifestos since the Suffragettes (2023) (4/18/2025) - Video (2:51): The exhibition MANIFEST Yourself! (2023) retraces the development of (queer) feminist manifestos through a selection of statements issued by women*, trans and non-binary people around the world.
• Desert Island Discs – Maggi Hambling (BBC Radio) (4/13/2025) - Video (36:21): BBC Radio's Sue Lawley interviews lesbian painter Maggi Hambling about her life and favourite music.
• Joan Snyder on Florine Stettheimer’s Cathedrals Paintings (4/11/2025) - Video (3:10): Artist Joan Snyder reflects on Florine Stettheimer's "Cathedrals" paintings in this episode of The Artist Project (2016).
• Lesbian Legacies (4/7/2025) - The Kunstraum Scherben Berlin presents Lesbian Legacies, a three-part exhibition series offering a fascinating perspective on art history and the overlooked lesbian artists.
• Hilma af Klint: A Biography by Julia Voss (2022) (3/23/2025) - Video (56:40): Scholar Julia Voss presents her new biography of Hilma af Klint, published by University of Chicago Press (2022).
• Curator’s Lounge: Abbott and McCausland Virtual Conversation with Terri Weissman (3/13/2025) - Video (1:04.14): The Curator’s Virtual Lounge Series invites you to join them for a conversation between Curatorial Assistant Jessica Rosen and Scholar Terri Weissman to uncover hidden stories about photographer Berenice Abbott and her lifelong romantic and intellectual partner, art-critic Elizabeth McCausland.
• Dorothy Hepworth and Patricia Preece: An Untold Story – with Gemma Rolls-Bentley (2024) (3/9/2025) - Video (8:52):: curator and author Gemma Rolls-Bentley as she explores the secret artistic collaboration and lifelong romantic partnership of artists Dorothy Hepworth and Patricia Preece.
• Podcast – On Hilma af Klint (2024) (2/13/2025) - Video (44:21): Queer art historian Helen Molesworth has made an episode of her podcast on the art and life of Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) featuring art historian Briony Fer and af Klint’s biographer, Julia Voss.
• Betty Parsons: Reverberation (2/6/2025) - Betty Parsons: Reverberation at Alexander Gray Associates, New York February 14 – March 15, 2025
• Présences Lesbiennes: Disorienting Feminism with Amelia Jones (1/23/2025) - Video (1:31:05): A paper by art historian Amelia Jones about lesbian and queer artists as a disorienting element in the 20th century society.
• Podcast: Marie Laurencin: Avante-garde Painter of Paris (11/19/2024) - Video (36:32): the Podcast Marie Laurencin: Avante-garde Painter of Paris by STUFF YOU MISSED IN HISTORY CLASS. Illustration: 1923, Portrait de Mademoiselle Chanel [referring to Coco Chanel], oil on canvas by Marie Laurencin
• Tirza True Latimer – Les héroïnes oubliées : Les artistes femmes autour de Claude Cahun (2022) (10/14/2024) - Lecture in French about the artist duo and queer couple Cahun/Moore by American art historian and queer woman Tirza True Latimer.
• Tamara de Lempicka: The Making of an Art Deco Icon (10/14/2024) - Video (9:44): Tamara de Lempicka, a short documentary.
• The Worlds of Bernice Bing – Lenore Chinn Interview (2013) (9/30/2024) - Video (15:56): San Francisco artist Lenore Chinn discusses the life and artwork of lesbian, abstract painter Bernice 'Bingo' Bing.
• The Woman’s Building History: Terry Wolverton (9/10/2024) - Video (11:16): The Woman’s Building History told by Terry Wolverton.
• Agnes Sims (1910-1990) (8/20/2024) - Artist and lesbian Agnes Sims (1910-1990) is known for paintings and sculptures inspired by prehistoric rock art of New Mexico.
• Trailer – Gray Matters (2016) (7/26/2024) - Video (1:55): A trailer about 'Gray Matters' - Marco Orsini's documentary. The film explores architect and designer Eileen Grays story.
• Other Printers: Making Images Read as Lesbian (7/7/2024) - Video (53:25): Other Printers: Making Images Read as Lesbian, a lecture by dr. Laura Guy (UK). Video by The Courtauld in London.
• New Art Book – The Secret Art of Dorothy Hepworth AKA Patricia Preece (6/26/2024) - This fully illustrated monograph is published to coincide with the major exhibition, Dorothy Hepworth and Patricia Preece: An Untold Story, at Charleston Lewes and tells the extraordinary story of the artist duo and romantic couple in detail for the first time.
• Dorothy Hepworth and Patricia Preece: An Untold Story (6/26/2024) - Dorothy Hepworth and Patricia Preece: An Untold Story 27 March – 8 September 2024 Charleston in Lewes Southover Road, Lewes, BN7 1FB, UK
• LIKE A WHIRLWIND – Die Genderplays von Marie Høeg & Bolette Berg (6/25/2024) - LIKE A WHIRLWIND – Die Genderplays von Marie Høeg & Bolette Berg 14. June 2024 — 25. August 2024 at f³ – freiraum für fotografie, Waldemarstraße 17, 10179 Berlin, Germany
• Alice Austen, the 1880s Photographer: her House, her Photos, her Love Life (6/19/2024) - Video (26:27): A lesbian love story - Alice Austen, the 1880s Photographer: her House, her Photos, her Love Life.
• Alice Austen – Must Know Photographer (6/19/2024) - Video (2:56): A brief introduction to Alice Austen (1866 – 1952). A groundbreaking queer photographer from Victorian-era New York.
• Heresies Magazine (6/15/2024) - Video (3:15): a short film about the Heresies magazine and the founders of the magazine by On This Spot NYC (2024). Heresies was a feminist publication on arts and politics run by artists and writers in SoHo, New York, from 1977 to 1993.
• The Color of Light: Nell Blaine (6/12/2024) - Video (8:00): The Color of Light: Nell Blaine, a short documentary about the life of American abstract painter Nell Blaine (1922-1996).
• American Dada and Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven – Caroline Giepert – Louisiana State University (5/25/2024) - Video (33:39): Caroline Giepert discusses the American Dada Art Movement and the role of Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (1894-1927).
• Queen of Dada: Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (5/25/2024) - Video (43:23): A podcast about Dada artist Elsa Baroness von Freytag-Loringhoven (1894-1927) by Paris Lesbo (June 2022).
• Painter Leonor Fini (1907-1996) (5/25/2024) - Video (15:30): A film on the artist Leonor Fini by Eo Omwake.
• Edmonia Lewis and Black Women’s Activism in Civil War Boston (4/30/2024) - Video (1:01:26): Edmonia Lewis sold a set of works festuring plaster medalions and busts to abolisionist patrons and as a result she was able to move to Italy and further her career. Caitlin Beach, Assistant Professor of Art History presents these and other rarely shown works by artist and activist Edmonia Lewis (1843-1911).
• Harmony Hammond in Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better Than the Real Thing (3/20/2024) - Harmony Hammond in Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better Than the Real Thing at the Whitney Museum of Art, New York. Opening: March 20, 2024.
• Edele Christiane Margrethe Schreiber (1822-1898) (11/13/2023) - Illustration: Self-portrait by Christiane Schreiber circa 1870.
• Curators in Conversation | Marie Laurencin: Sapphic Paris – 10/22/23 (11/11/2023) - Video (1:00:43): Co-curators Simonetta Fraquelli and Cindy Kang discuss Laurencin's life and work on opening day of 'Marie Laurencin: Sapphic Paris' at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia from 10/22/23 - 1/21/24.
• Queer Identities and Histories in American Art (11/11/2023) - Video (47:47): Anna O. Marley, Ksenia M. Soboleva and Jonathan D. Katz discus how Queer Identities and Histories have been encoded in American Art.
• Sonja Sekula (11/11/2023) - Video (3:49): Jenny Anger, Grinnell College Museum of Art, Iowa, USA, talks about two works by Swiss-American artist Sonja Sekula (1918-1963).
• Germaine Krull – a Short Biography (8/15/2023) - Video (1:45) A short biography about the life of Germaine Krull (1897–1985), bisexual woman, artist photographer, hotellier and buddhist.
• Louise Catherine Breslau in her studio in 1912 (8/10/2023) - Louise Catherine Breslau (1856–1927) was a German-born Swiss lesbian painter. Her partner was French artist, writer, decorator and painter Madeleine Zillhardt (1863-1950).
• Marie Laurencin’s Painting: Réunion à la campagne (Apollinaire et ses amis), 1909 (7/23/2023) - Video (1:13): Curator Meg Slater talks about a work by bisexual French modernist painter Marie Laurencin whose life and oeuvre now is explored from feminist and queer perspectives.
• Chanson de Bilitis (7/23/2023) - Chanson de Bilitis (1905) by Marie Laurencin.
• Mariette Lydis (6/16/2023) - Mariette Lydis (1887–1970) (born Marietta Ronsperger) was an Austrian-Argentine painter and illustrator famous for her lesbian litographs.