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.
Category: Lesbian art herstory
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.
Video (11:49): oil painting conservator Bruce Wood explains the processes needed to restore a 19th Century oil painting of sheeps by Rosa Bonheur.
Video (19:18): A biography about Finish author, visual artist, comics artist and lesbian Tove Jansson (1914 – 2001).
DADA anders: Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Hannah Höch, Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven runs until May 8, 2016 Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Selnaustrasse 25, 8001 Zürich, Switzerland. To mark the 100th anniversary of the Zurich Dada movement, the Museum Haus Konstruktiv presents the historical group show “DADA differently,” featuring works by the three main women…
Claude Cahun: Beneath This Mask, January 22 2016 – March 5, 2016 at Exeter Phoenix, Bradninch Place, Gandy Street, Exeter, EX4 3LS, UK.
Book: Louise Abbema by Louise Abbema (1858-1927), illustrated with drawings by Louise Abbema. Published 1879 in Paris, France.
Sarah Bernhardt in 1875, painted by her lover painter Louise Abbéma. Louise Abbéma, self-portrait in 1876, 35 x 26 cm. Louise Abbéma (1853 – 1927) was a lesbian and a French painter, sculptor and designer. Related Link Louise Abbéma (1853-1927) – a slideshow with samples of her works.
A slideshow with paintings by bisexual painter Tamara de Lempika (1898-1980).
A slideshow with paintings by bisexual painter Tamara de Lempika (1898-1980).
A slideshow with paintings by bisexual painter Tamara de Lempika (1898-1980).