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Although Lowry had painted portraits before (cf. the 'Horrible Heads' series from the 1930s), Portrait of Ann was seen as a major departure from Lowry's stock images of industrial scenes and millscapes — not least because Lowry very rarely used women as his subjects. Lowry described the style of the painting as being "modernist", explaining ...
Ethel "Sunny" Lowry MBE (2 January 1911, in Longsight, Manchester, Lancashire – 21 February 2008) was credited with becoming the first British woman to swim the English Channel in 1933, [1] Although Mercedes Gleitze was actually the first British woman to swim the channel, in 1927.
Women Today highlighted crucial issues for Irish women in the late 1970s and early 1980s, ranging from women's rights, societal roles, professional opportunities, and quest for equal pay, to physical and mental health, reproductive rights, domestic violence, and representation in media and politics. The show's discussions had a profound impact ...
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On the day of their graduation from the Waynesboro Female College in 1868, best friends Anne Alexander and Sarah "Sally" Cochran are invited along with several of the college's female teachers by Mrs. Lowrey, who along with her professor husband operates the college, to become founding members of a new local society, the Waynesboro Woman's Club.
The 49th Annual GMA Dove Awards presentation ceremony were held on Tuesday, October 16, 2018 at the Allen Arena located in Nashville, Tennessee.The ceremony recognized the accomplishments of musicians and other figures within the Christian music industry for the year 2018.
Other prominent pictorialists included Käsebier's assistant Alice Boughton and Anne Brigman (1869–1950) with her images of nude women. [46] Mary Devens (1857–1920) who experimented with printing techniques was like Käsebier elected a member of the British Linked Ring which has preceded Photo-Secession in promoting photography as an art ...
In 1890, she married Sir Henry Morton Stanley, [1] and became known as Lady Stanley. She edited her husband's autobiography, [ 1 ] reportedly removing any references to other women in Stanley's life. After Sir Henry Morton Stanley's death, his widow remarried, in 1907, to Henry Jones Curtis (died 19 February 1944), a pathologist, surgeon and ...