Video (17:01): Art school with Paul Priestley presents Tamara de Lempicka: The Life of an Artist. Tamara de Lempicka was a bisexual artist, a popular art deco painter who lived a bohemian life in Europe and the US.
Category: 20th Century Artists
The exhibition of works on paper by American lesbian gallerist and painter Betty Parsons (1900—1982) at Alexander Gray Associates, November 20, 2020 – January 31, 2021, highlights a pivotal moment in Parsons’ artistic career after she abandoned figuration to fully embrace abstraction.
Video (7:19): Florence Henri au Jeu de Paume (2015) is a short presentation about the photographic oeuvre of Florence Henri (1893-1982).
Video (44:05): Artists Jutta Koether and Nick Mauss from New York in conversation with museum director Matthias Mühling in Munich, Germany about Florine Stettheimer (1971-1944) and her queer imagery. Video by Art Basel, 2014.
Video (58:55): the documentary ‘ Gluck – Who Did She Think He Was ?’ about Hannah ‘Gluck’ Gluckstein (1895–1978) was originally presented by the BBC, when Tate Britain in London ran the group show ‘QUEER BRITISH ART 1861–1967’.
Video (7:35): Slideshow with paintings by Dame Ethel Walker (1861-1951). She was a Scottish lesbian artist, a painter of portraits, flower-pieces, sea-pieces and decorative compositions.
Feminine Moments went to see the retrospective exhibition about the life and oeuvre of Finish lesbian painter, author and illustrator Tove Jansson at Gl. Strand in Copenhagen, Denmark. The exhibition runs through September 3, 2017.
American lesbian artist Florence Wyle (1881 – 1968) studied art at the Art Institute of Chicago, there she met her wife/lifelong companion Frances Loring (1887 – 1968).
‘Still Life with a View over a Cemetery’ by Ethel Sands – sold March 1923.
Video (57:12): Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) – Art Discussions: Romaine Brooks, 20th-Century Woman, June 17, 2016. Session 1: Cassandra Langer, art historian and author of ‘Romaine Brooks: A Life’
Kathleen Eileen Moray Gray (August 9, 1878 – October 31, 1976) was an Irish furniture designer and architect and a pioneer of the Modern Movement in architecture.
Slideshow with nude photos by Ruth Bernhard (October 14, 1905 – December 18, 2006). Wikipedia reads about photographer Ruth Bernhard: “By the late-1920s, while living in Manhattan, Bernhard was heavily involved in the lesbian sub-culture of the artistic community, becoming friends with photographer Berenice Abbott and her lover, critic Elizabeth…
Video and text © National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 2010. Grace Crowley – Australian Artist and Modernist Painter ‘Grace Crowley (1890 – 1979), also known as ‘Smudge’, is believed to have been in a relationship with Anna Dangar between about 1915 and 1929. Anna Dangar studied and then taught at…
Feminine Moments went to see ‘Frida Kahlo – A Live In Art’ at Arken Museum of Modern Art in Copenhagen. The exhibition claimed the bisexual artist as a heterosexual painter.
Video (12:00): About Hannah Höch, ‘Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada Through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany’, collage, mixed media, 1919-1920.
Video (7:32): Slideshow with works by Hanna Höch. [The copyright of the video above remains with the original holder and it is used here for the purpose of education, comparison and criticism only.] Art Herstory: German bisexual artist Hannah Höch (1889-1978) is best known for her photomontages, though she also…
Agnes Martin’s paintings was presented at Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture” at the National Portrait Gallery.