Painter Romaine Brooks

Slideshow with paintings by Romaine Brooks Romaine Brooks Lesbian Art Herstory: American Painter Romaine Brooks (1874 – 1970) worked in Paris and on Capri in the 1920s. She best known for her images of women in androgynous or masculine dress having, and has among others painted a painting of a…

Clarity Haynes – The Breast Portrait Project

Sorry the pomotional fundraising video for the Breast Portrait Project by Artist Clarity Haynes published by Martha Shane on Vimeo (2011) has been deleted by the owner. This project was successfully funded a year ago. Making Herstory Sorry, this video has also been deleted. Video description: Clarity Haynes discusses her…

Lesbian Art Herstory: Frances Loring and Florence Wyle

A Young Girl by Wyle from E. Sweeney on Vimeo. “I love it” ~ Charlie Hill, Curator of Canadian Art,  National Gallery of Canada. Lesbian Art Herstory: Frances Loring and Florence Wyle Frances Loring (1881?-1968) and Florence Wyle (ca 1887-1968) artists and American bohemians living and working together in Toronto,…

Claude Cahun Retrospective in Barcelona

French lesbian photographer Claude Cahun’s surrealist works are growing more and more popular. Go see the latest retrospective of her works in Barcelona: Claude Cahun 28 October 2011 to 2 February 2012 at Centre de Imatge, Barcelona, Spain “After many years of relative obscurity, the photographs of Claude Cahun (born…

Lesbian Art Herstory: Bernice Bing – a Chinese American Painter

Lenore Chinn on Bernice Bing from Rehistoricizing.org on Vimeo. Bernice Bing (1936-1998) a Chinese American Painter and Queer Artist Bernice Bing was a third-generation American Chinese born in Chinatown, San Francisco in 1936. In 1958, Bernice attended California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, but she soon transferred to…

Dadaist Artist Hannah Höch

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…

New York: Lesbians Seeing Lesbians

Press release from The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art Lesbians Seeing Lesbians Building Community in Early Feminist Photography Exhibition Ends October 22, 2011 at the Leslie-Lohman Gallery, 26 Wooster Street, NYC, USA Tee Corrine, Self-portrait, Gelatin silver print, 1980. Press photo courtesy of Leslie-Lohman Gallery. In the wake…

Art Herstory: Tamara de Lempicka

Portrait de Madame M. by Tamara de Lempickaset a new world auction record for the artist when it sold for $6,130,500 at Christie’s in 2009.

Art Herstory: Dora Carrington

Dora Carrington painted only for her own pleasure, did not sign her works, and rarely exhibited them, hence she was not well known as a painter during her lifetime.

Lesbian Couple Told to Stop Holding Hands at Gertrude Stein Exhibit

Lesbian Couple Told to Stop Holding Hands at Gertrude Stein Exhibit in San Francisco The Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco is taking very seriously an incident in which a guard tried to get a lesbian couple to stop holding hands while they were viewing — ironically enough — an…