Portrait de Madame M. by Tamara de Lempickaset a new world auction record for the artist when it sold for $6,130,500 at Christie’s in 2009.
Category: Lesbian art herstory
Dora Carrington painted only for her own pleasure, did not sign her works, and rarely exhibited them, hence she was not well known as a painter during her lifetime.
Lesbian Couple Told to Stop Holding Hands at Gertrude Stein Exhibit in San Francisco The Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco is taking very seriously an incident in which a guard tried to get a lesbian couple to stop holding hands while they were viewing — ironically enough — an…
Pioneering California architect Julia Morgan (1872-1957) was the first woman architect to be registered in California.
Catherine Opie : Retrospective at the Guggenheim, “American Photographer” Sept 26th, 2008 – Jan 7th, 2009. In this video Grace Moon talks with queer photographer Catherine Opie about Catherine’s retrospective at the Guggenheim.
American Art Quilter V Kingsley 11/11/1965 to 4/1/2011.
An amazing T shirt collection containing 30 years of lesbian and feminist herstory is made into a very non traditional quilt titled “I am a Mermaid” by V Kingsley, USA
I have been looking back at lesbian art projects and exhibitions in the late 1970s, when lesbian artists began to fight for their seat in history and took the first steps on the way to raising public awareness of lesbian art as something more than a hidden subcultural phenomenon.