Embracing the Parallax:
Berenice Abbott and Elizabeth McCausland
February 2 – March 30, 2025
at The Heckscher Museum of Art, USA
Category: 20th Century Artists
Sigrid Karolina Sofia Fridman (1879-1963) was a Swedish sculptor and poet.
Illustration: Ellen Key (1953) a bronze statue by Sigrid Fridman
Illustration: The Annunciation (1899) by Sigrid Blomberg (1863-1941). Marble. Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden.
Video (0:20): A quick look inside the artbook: Marie Laurencin: Sapphic Paris, edited by Simonetta Fraquelli and Cindy Kang.
Video (6:35): curator Kristen Gaylord zooms in on lesbian Laura Gilpin photographs in the exhibition, ‘Looking In: Photography from the Outside’ (December 21, 2019–July 5, 2020)
Dorothy Hepworth and Patricia Preece: An Untold Story
27 March – 8 September 2024
Charleston in Lewes
Southover Road, Lewes, BN7 1FB, UK
Video (43:23): A podcast about Dada artist Elsa Baroness von Freytag-Loringhoven (1894-1927) by Paris Lesbo (June 2022).
Video (15:30): A film on the artist Leonor Fini by Eo Omwake.
Feminine Moments recommends Hales’ presentation of the exhibition ‘Tessa Boffin: 1989-1993’. Hales, New York, has the best online gallery about UK lesbian photographer Tessa Boffin’s main works!
Video (3:49): Jenny Anger, Grinnell College Museum of Art, Iowa, USA, talks about two works by Swiss-American artist Sonja Sekula (1918-1963).
Video (3:31): Kristin Spangenberg talks about a new acquisition by the Cincinnati Art Museum: Four Bathers, a print by Maud Hunt Squire. And she tells about lesbian artist duo and partners in life Maud Hunt Squire (1873–1954) and Ethel Mars (1876-1959).
Mariette Lydis (1887–1970) (born Marietta Ronsperger) was an Austrian-Argentine painter and illustrator famous for her lesbian litographs.
Yours truly have been to Odense to see the exhibition Claude Cahun: Under huden (/Claude Cahun: Under the Skin) at Brandts Klædefabrik aka Art Museum Brandts, Odense, Denmark. The exhibition runs through 23/7 2023.
Video (26:06): – The German version of a French documentary, “Liebe am Werk – Claude Cahun & Marcel Moore” (2019) by Stéphanie Colaux. The documentary is about the life of artists and romantic partners Claude Cahun and Marcel Moor (aka Lucy Schwob and Suzanne Malherbe). Language: German
‘Into View: Bernice Bing’ celebrates the Asian Art Museum’s acquisition of 20 paintings and works on paper that shine a light on the lesbian Asian American artist Bernice ‘Bingo’ Bing (1936-1998) who has only recently gained broad recognition for her achievements. The exhibition runs through June 26, 2023.
Video (12.25): Queer Cornwall: Marlow Moss, Gluck and Ithell Colquhoun in Lamorna a video by Tate Gallery (2021).
Video (11:54): Witch’s Cradle (1943) by Maya Deren (1917-1961) is an experimental short film, written and directed by Maya Deren with Marcel Duchamp. This version of the short film has a soundtrack, though Maya Deren wanted her films to be silent.
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.
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).