Agnes Noyes Goodsir (1864 – 1939) A Lesbian Painter

The Parisienne by Agnes Goodsir Painting by Agnes Goodsir Girl on couch by Agnes Goodsir, 1915 Agnes Noyes Goodsir (1864 – 1939) Agnes Noyes Goodsir, born in Australia was encouraged to go to Paris to study paintings in 1899 by her family. She remained there until 1905. Returning to Europe…

Grace Crowley ‘Abstract painting’ 1947

Video and text © National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 2010. Grace Crowley (1890 – 1979) Australian Artist and Modernist Painter ‘Grace Crowley, also known as ‘Smudge’, is believed to have been in a relationship with Anne Dangar between about 1915 and 1929. Anne Dangar studied and then taught at Julian…

Margaret Preston (1875–1963)

Slideshow with photos by Australian painter Margaret Preston. Margaret Preston (1875–1963) Margaret Rose McPherson (later Margaret Preston) was born in Adelaide, Australia in 1875. She studied art at the prestigious National Gallery of Victoria Art School in 1889. And then she went on to further her studies at Adelaide’s School…

After Our Bodies Meet: From Resistance to Potentiality

Becoming An Image Performance Still No. 1, (ONE National Archives, Transactivations, Los Angeles), 2012, C-print face mounted to Plexiglas, 45 x 30 in. Photo: Heather Cassils with Eric Charles. Courtesy of the artist and Ronald Feldman Fine Arts. Leslie-Lohman Museum presents an exhibition of queer feminist artists exploring the body…

Claude Cahun at Jeu de Paume 2011

Claude Cahun – video by Jeu de Paume, France, 2011 The exhibition of Claude Cahun’s photographs at Jeu de Paume in Paris, France in 2011, and later exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago in 2012 featured a wide selection of the artist’s works, some of which have seldom been…

The Worlds of Bernice Bing – Lenore Chinn Interview

The Worlds of Bernice Bing – Lenore Chinn Interview, 2013 In the above interview San Francisco Artist Lenore Chinn discusses the life of artist and lesbian activist Bernice Bing. THE WORLDS OF BERNICE BING Documentary 34 minutes, color, 2013 DVD available for purchase online at http://www.aawaa.net/ Aawaa.net about the film:…

Berenice Abbott at Jeu De Paume, 2012

Video by Jeu De Paume, Paris. Subtitles in English. BERENICE ABBOTT (1898 – 1991) Photographies at Jeu De Paume, Paris, France 21.02.2012 – 29.04.2012. This solo show gave for the first time a presentation of works selected from all the of the different parts of American photographer Berenice Abbott’s long…

Twice Militant: Lorraine Hansberry’s Letters to “The Ladder”

Press Release by Brooklyn Museum Playwright Lorraine Hansberry’s Letters to The Ladder Focal Point of Exhibition in Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway Brooklyn NY 11238-6052 On View November 22, 2013 – March 16, 2014 A new exhibition, Twice Militant: Lorraine Hansberry’s Letters to…

Alice Austen: Into the Light

2004 documentary by Pablo Helguera on the life and work of XIXth century Staten Island photographer Alice Austen. One book has been published about photographer Alice Austen: Alice’s World : The Life and Photography of an American Original, Alice Austen, 1866-1952 Authored by lesbian photo researcher Ann Novotny Devin-Adair Pub;…

Richard Meyer – Alice Austen and the Secret History of Photography

This lecture by Richard Meyer, titled “Quarantined: Alice Austen and the Secret History of Photography,” took place on Wednesday, September 9, 2011 in Steinberg Auditorium at Washington University. Art historian Richard Meyer talks the works of American photographer Alice Austen,  and lesbian visibility. He also mentions the book, which he…

American Photographer Laura Gilpin

Laura Gilpin (1891 – 1979) was an American photographer known for her photographs of Native Americans, particularly the Navajo and Pueblo, and her Southwestern landscapes. She also frequently photographed her partner Elizabeth ‘Betsy’ ForsterElizabeth ‘Betsy’ Forster. However, those photos are not included in this slideshow. Related links Article: Laura Gilpin…

Lesbian Art Herstory: Janet Scudder

Janet Scudder, ca. 1920 / unidentified photographer. Macbeth Gallery records, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Photo courtesy of The Commons at Flickr.com and Archives of American Art, USA. Janet Scudder (1869? – 1940) American artist Janet Scudder (1869? – 1940) was a sculptor, feminist, expatriate suffragette, who “frequently marched…

New Zealand Artist Frances Hodgkins

Paintings by Frances Hodgkins Frances Hodgkins (1869 – 1947) There is speculation that New Zealand watercolorist and painter Frances Hodgkins in fact was a closeted bisexual woman. She never married. In 1903 she met Dorothy Kate Richmond (1861-1935), an artist from Auckland with whom she travelled in France and Italy…

Painter Agnes Noyes Goodsir an Australian Lesbian in Paris

Agnes Noyes Goodsir (1864 – 1939) Agnes Noyes Goodsir was born in Australia. From 1912 – 1920 she lived in Paris and London, before she finally settled in Paris with her companion Rachel Dunn. She has made several paintings of Rachel such as A letter from the Front / Girl on…

Janet Cooling on Art

Interview with Janet Cooling (2010) by ArtasAuthority at YouTube. About Janet Cooling Janet Cooling ‘received her B.F.A. from Pratt Institute (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and her M.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is currently a professor in the School of Art, Design, and Art History at San…

Bettina Gray Interviews Photographer Ruth Bernhard

Bettina Gray interviews photographer Ruth Bernhard; an excerpt from the Creative Mind 13-part interview series for public television produced by KQED, San Francisco aired 1991-1992. About Ruth Bernhard Ruth Bernhard (October 14, 1905 – December 18, 2006) was a German-born American photographer. Around 1934, she began making images of women…

Art Herstory – Hannah Höch

Video (12:00): Hannah Höch, ‘Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada Through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany’, collage, mixed media, 1919-1920.