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.
All her life French painter Rosa Bonheur’s favorite subject was animals. She was a lesbian.
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.