Photographer Laura Gilpin, (1891-1979) is best know for her landscapes of the Southwest and the Navajo. She also frequently photographed her partner Elizabeth W. Forster, however the art historians are often so busy establishing Laura Gilpin’s reputation as a Great American Photographer that they forget to mention her partner, when…
Category: Lesbian art herstory
Artist Caroly Sherer introduces the exhibition, The Story of Living in Limbo: Lesbian Families of the Deep South. (2012). See the full exhibition summary at YouTube. Living in Limbo: Lesbian Families in the Deep South by Carolyn Sherer is a contemporary fine art photography exhibition honoring the current complexities of…
Press release The Cover of Romaine Brooks a Life by Cassandra Langer (UW Press, September 2015) Romaine Brooks (1874–1970) The artistic achievements of Romaine Brooks (1874–1970), both as a major expatriate American painter and as a formative innovator in the decorative arts, have long been overshadowed by her fifty-year relationship…
Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864–1952) self-portraits.
Lotte Laserstein (1898–1993) Born in Preussisch Holland, Lotte moved to Berlin to study at the prestigiouis Berlin Academy of Fine Arts as one of the women artists to study there in the period 1919 – 1925. She had her first solo exhibition in a Berlin gallery in 1930, but in…
Panel debate about the Florine Stettheimer retrospective. Video by Art Basel Florine Stettheimer Retrospective in Munich Early American modernist painter, salonière, set designer and poet Florine Stettheimer(1871 – 1944) was living for a period of her life in Munich, Germany. The Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau, Munich is now…
American writer and art collector Gertrude Stein bought the first painting Marie Laurencin (1883 – 1956) ever sold as a professional artist, Group of Artists (1909), which is a group portrait of Laurencin, Apollinaire, Picasso and his mistress, Fernande Olivier. Musée Marie Laurencin (the Marie Laurencin Museum) in Japan is dedicated…
The Ladies Almanack – The Book All Women Should Carry by Djuna Barnes.
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…
Video and text © National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 2010. Grace Crowley – Australian Artist and Modernist Painter ‘Grace Crowley (1890 – 1979), also known as ‘Smudge’, is believed to have been in a relationship with Anna Dangar between about 1915 and 1929. Anna Dangar studied and then taught at…
Video (1:29): ‘Kathleen O’Connor ‘In the studio’ c. 1928′, a video with a short biography of the artist published by National Gallery of Australia.
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…
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 – 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, 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…
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…
Harriet Hosmer: A Cultural Biography
By Kate Culkin
Publisher: Univ. of Massachusetts Press (2010)
ASIN: B00G1TFQ76.
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…
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;…
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…