Kathleen Eileen Moray Gray (August 9, 1878 – October 31, 1976) was an Irish furniture designer and architect and a pioneer of the Modern Movement in architecture.
Category: Lesbian art herstory
Collecting Light: The Photographs of Ruth Bernhard. Edited by James Alinder. Carmel, Calif.: Friends of Photography, 1979.
Untitled 1, 1969. Courtesy of Barbara Hammer and Company Gallery. Barbara Hammer Lesbian Whale: Early Drawings and Paintings September 13 – October 11, 2015 Opening Reception: September 13, 6-8 pm Company Gallery 88 Eldridge Street, 5th Floor, New York, New York 10002, USA Barbara Hammer’s Lesbian Whale: Early Drawings and…
The Art Channel AKA independent art critiques and Londoners Grace Adam and Joshua White bring you a film of the Agnes Martin exhibition at Tate Modern including analysis of several major works. Agnes Martin (1912 – 2004) was an American expressionist painter who retreated from New York City to a…
QAF Trigger 2015 banner with a work of art by Persimmon Blackbridge Last Chance to See QAF’s Visual Arts Exhibition Queer Arts Festival in Vancouver runs through August 7. The festival’s visual arts exhibition Trigger: Drawing the Line in 2015 celebrates the 25th anniversary of a landmark work of queer…
Excerpt from QAF’s website. TRIGGER: Drawing the Line in 2015, July 23 – August 7, curated by SD Holman, is the main exhibition of the Queer Arts Festival 2015 in Vancouver. Venue: Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre, 181 Roundhouse Mews (Corner of Davie & Pacific), Vancouver, British Columbia V6Z…
Video (7:39): Michel Frizot, curator of the exhibition, talks about Germaine Krull, her life, her . works and her publications. Exhibition at Jeu de Paume from 02 June 2015 until 27 September 2015. Subtitles in English.
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…
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…