Who Is Julia Margaret Cameron, the Victorian Woman Who Changed Photography?
A groundbreaking photographer, she helped turned the medium into art.
By Sarah Cascone
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/julia-margaret-cameron-changed-photography-2685732
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A Long-Forgotten 17th-Century Flemish Master Is Finally Getting the Attention She Deserves
For the first time, nearly all of Baroque painter Michaelina Wautier’s works will be exhibited together
by Ella Feldman
"Self-Portrait," Marie Benoist, 1786.
Marie-Guillemine Benoist (1768-1826) was obviously very talented, having painted this while only in her teens. And she went on to be an acclaimed neoclassical and historic painter. She was initially trained under Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun and later under Jacques-Louis David, so she had guidance from some of the top talent of her day.
She became an in-demand portraitist, and even had commissions from Napoleon Bonaparte himself. She enjoyed quite a big of success...until the Bonaparte era crumbled. In the face of growing conservatism in Europe, she tactfully retired from public life and only rarely painted.
I love the energy depicted here...it's so obviously the work of someone very young and very excited and confident.
From the Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe.
#Art #SelfPortrait #NeoClassicism #MarieBenoist #WomenAritsts #WomenInArt
This 17th-Century Female Artist Was Once a Bigger Star Than Rembrandt. Why Did History Forget About Johanna Koerten and Her Peers?
by Meilan Solly
Is This Woman Old Master the Greatest Artistic Rediscovery of the Century?
The forgotten Old Master Michaelina Wautier comes roaring back in a sweeping exhibition at Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum.
by Katie White
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/michaelina-wautier-the-greatest-rediscovery-of-the-century-2697794
A Hidden Sargent Painting Revives the Story of a Rebel Heiress Who Shaped Art History
Winnaretta Singer became a queer icon and cultural force in fin-de-siècle Paris. Her portrait is on view now at the Musée d'Orsay.
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/winaretta-singer-arts-patron-2710704
She Is an Icon of Finnish Art. Now Modernist Helene Schjerfbeck Takes a Global Stage
The Finnish master whose name you should know is the subject of a major solo at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
by Annikka Olsen
More about Helene Schjerfbeck:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helene_Schjerfbeck
Gertrude Stein Was Her Champion. How History Forgot Self-Taught Artist Hazel Knapp
In the 1930s and ‘40s, the self-taught Vermont artist painted from a wheelchair with the assistance of her mother, earning success.
By Bryan Martin
Three women translators who bridged cultures
Stories of Birgitte Thott, Sarah Austin, and Émilie du Châtelet
by Małgorzata Szynkielewska via @europeana (from the archives)
https://www.europeana.eu/en/stories/three-women-translators-who-bridged-cultures
Books by or translated by Émilie du Châtelet at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=%C3%89milie+du+Ch%C3%A2telet&submit_search=Search
Emily Sargent’s Long-Hidden Watercolors Debut at the Met
John Singer Sargent's sister steps into the spotlight.
In 2022, the heirs of John Singer Sargent made a major donation spread across seven museums in the U.S. and the U.K. These works were not by the famed Gilded Age society portraitist, but his younger sister Emily Sargent—an accomplished artist in her own right, being recognized for the first time.
by Sarah Cascone
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/emily-sargent-exhibition-metropolitan-museum-of-art-2660505
Emily Carr and Canadian Identity
At times at odds with her self and her role in society, Carr sought an identity in the landscapes and Indigenous cultures of the Pacific Northwest.
By: Emily Zarevich
6 Women Artists Overshadowed by Their Husbands
Pollock, Rivera, Ernst, Kandinsky, and Hopper—these artists are well-known and celebrated. But did you know that they had wives who were equally-talented artists?
by Lea Stanković (from the archives)
https://www.thecollector.com/women-artists-overshadowed-by-husbands/
Escape from the Land of the Dead: On Leonora Carrington’s The Stone Door
"Magic and ideology are both practices of belief."
By Celia Bell
https://lithub.com/escape-from-the-land-of-the-dead-on-leonora-carringtons-the-stone-door/
How Black Women Tell the Stories of Their Lives and Communities Through Quilts
Exploring the Women of Color Quilters Network through SAAM’s collection
By Howard Kaplan
Quilts at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/5539
How Medieval Women Expressed Their ‘Forbidden’ Emotions
Upper-class women used letters and embroidery to reflect on their inner lives
by Pragya Agarwal (from the archives)
Medieval women at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=medieval+women
The Bennett Collection: The Rising Glory of Women Painters
From 16th-century nuns to modern masters, this collection’s focus on female figurative realists drives a $50,000 biennial boost for the next generation of icons
Michael Pearce
https://www.mutualart.com/Article/The-Bennett-Collection--The-Rising-Glory/45A7C277840FAFCA
Women painters at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=Women+Painters
William Merritt Chase, the Accidental Ally
Painter William Merritt Chase opened an art school for a new generation of women, teaching them how to draw as well as how to advocate for themselves.
By: Anne Halsey
About William Merritt Chase at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=William+Merritt+Chase
The many literary lives of Mary Wollstonecraft – author of novels, travel writing and children’s books
Wollstonecraft’s literary career was dedicated to questioning power, society and the roles assigned to women.
by Aditi Upmanyu
Mary Wollstonecraft at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/84
6 Inspirational Women Who Redefined Art History
Patrons, muses, and artists—take a look at six inspirational women in the history of art.
by Anastasiia Kirpalov
https://www.thecollector.com/inspirational-women-redefined-art-history/
Art history at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/5621
Leonora Carrington At Last
Posthumous retrospectives often fall victim to curatorial time-washing, the desire to insert “relevance” into the work of the deceased, who have no say in the matter. In Sidebar, essayist Christina Cacouris shares the rare retrospective that meets the artist on her own terms.
https://libertiesjournal.substack.com/p/leonora-carrington-at-last
Books about Women artists at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/5626
On the Literary Afterlife of Japan's First Working Woman Writer
Translator Bryan Karetnyk Considers the Work of Higuchi Ichiyō
https://lithub.com/on-the-literary-afterlife-of-japans-first-working-woman-writer/
Books about Japanese literature at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/20407
Guide to the classics: Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World pioneered speculative fiction, 400 years ago
The Blazing World is a testament to how far the written novel has travelled in the past 400 years. A literary time capsule, it holds within it the origins of a genre we now call speculative fiction.
by Donna Mazza
Books by Margaret Cavendish at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/46554
The Private Worlds of Charlotte Brontë and Octavia E. Butler
Behind The Huntington Library’s glass cases, the layers of motherhood, career, friendship, family, and loss are revealed in personal objects.
by Hannah Benson
Books by Charlotte Brontë at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/408
During the Revolution, American Women Fought for Freedom, Spied on the British, Cared for the Sick and Fell in Love. A New Exhibition Reveals Their Rich Wartime Stories
by Meilan Solly
Books in American Revolutionary War at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/196
Born in 1810, Margaret Fuller Was Labeled a Child Prodigy. She Later Used Her Intellect to Ask Important Questions About Women’s Role in America
Her writing posed the novel premise: What does it mean to be a woman? Her early death meant she never saw the movement she inspired
by Megan Marshall
Books by Margaret Fuller at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2829
