The exhibition by Lenore Chinn runs from June 9 through September 18 at the GLBT History Museum in San Francisco. An opening reception on Friday, June 9, from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. will feature comments from the artist and the curator along with light refreshments.
Category: Lesbian art herstory
Claude Cahun: Beneath This Mask
Mar 1 2017 – May 6 2017
Sidney Cooper Gallery
Canterbury, United Kingdom
De intieme blik/The intimate gaze – an exhibition with works by Dutch photographer Gon Buurman. The exhibition runs through April 29, 2017 in Amsterdam.
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).
GLUCK, 6 – 28 February 2017 at The Fine Art Society London, 148 New Bond Street London W1S 2JT, UK
Video (2:30) LGBT Snapshots’ host talks about the life of French artist Claude Cahun (1894 – 1954).
‘Still Life with a View over a Cemetery’ by Ethel Sands – sold March 1923.
Video (7:32): a slideshow with works of art by Hannah Höch and photos of the artist. German Hannah Hoch (1889-1978) was a dada artist and bisexual woman.
American lesbian and painter Anna Klumpke (1856 – 1842) in her studio ca. 1885-90. Courtesy of the Frick Collection/Frick Art Reference Library Archives.
Anna Elizabeth Klumpke (1856–1942): Portrait of Rosa Bonheur, 1898, pastel on paper
55.5 × 45.5 cm. Current location: Bowdoin College Museum of Art.
Video (2.24): Rosa Bonheur, Sheep in the Highlands, 1857 (Wallace Collection, London). Speakers: Dr. Beth Harris, Dr. Steven Zucker talk about Rosa Bonheur’s life as woman painter and the above painting.
Video (3:28): Rosa Bonheur, Plowing in the Nivernais (or The First Dressing), oil on canvas, 1849 (Musée d’Orsay, Paris) Speakers: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.
Anna Klumpke, an American lesbian painter from Boston, met French painter Rosa Bonheur in 1887. They became friends and Anna Klumpke’s biography ‘Rosa Bonheur: sa vie, son oeuvre’ about her colleague was published in 1909.
Romaine Brooks, portrait ca. 1910.
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’
Video (1:56): the life and art of Edmonia Lewis (1845 – 1907).
Death of Cleopatra – the lost and found sculpture of 19th century African native American artist Edmonia Lewis.
Video slide show (12:28) with sensual images of women by French painter and bisexual Marie Laurencin.
Video slide show (10:13) with paintings by French modernist painter Marie Laurencin (1883 – 1956).
Video (3:22): introduction to Frances Hodgkins’s painting Kimmeridge Foreshore by Christina Barton, Director, Adam Art Gallery at Victoria University of Wellington.