Video (59:07): a BBC documentary about author, cartoonist, illustrator, artist and lesbian Tove Jansson.
Category: Lesbian art herstory
Screening and Conversation: The Female Closet by Barbara Hammer on October 30, 2017 at 18:30 – 20:00 at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
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.
Video (3:32): trailer about Packed In A Trunk – The Lost Art of Edith Lake Wilkinson (2015), a documentary film about American lesbian artist Edith Lake Wilkinson (1868 – 1957) co-written and produced by Jane Anderson (Edith’s great-niece) together with her wife, Tess Ayers.
Tove Jansson – Art, Love and Moomins
Dates: June 10 – September 3, 2017
Venue: Kunstforeningen Gl Strand, Copenhagen, Denmark
Video (3:32): Moving lesbians – interview with Ditte Wessels by Atria Kennisinstituut, Holland.
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.
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.
All her life French painter Rosa Bonheur’s favorite subject was animals. She was a lesbian.
Romaine Brooks, portrait ca. 1910.