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There are 22 women artists represented with works in the collection: Marie-Guillemine Benoist, Élise Bruyère, Élisabeth Sophie Chéron, Eugénie Dalton, Madeleine Goblot, Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot, Joséphine Houssay, Angelica Kauffmann, Adèle de Kercado, Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, Judith Leyster, Catherine Lusurier, Constance Mayer ...
The first international art exhibition made up entirely of art created by professional female artists. Women Artists: 1550–1950 was the first international exhibition of art by female artists. The exhibition opened on December 21, 1976, [ 1 ] at a time when the Feminist Art Movement was gaining in support and momentum.
The absence of women from the canon of Western art has been a subject of inquiry and reconsideration since the early 1970s. Linda Nochlin's influential 1971 essay, "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?", examined the social and institutional barriers that blocked most women from entering artistic professions throughout history, prompted a new focus on women artists, their art and ...
New York Society of Women Artists (NYSWA) is a group of women that aims to provide support and opportunities to New York-based female professional artists. The society was founded in 1925 by 26 women ( 23 painters and 3 sculptors). NYSWA organizes exhibitions and events featuring female artists living and working in New York only. [1] [2] [3]
The New York Times. Revised & Restored: The Art of Kathleen Gilje. Bruce Museum. 2013. ISBN 978-0-9859409-0-4. Women Artists: The Linda Nochlin Reader, edited by Maura Reilley (New York: Thames & Hudson, 2015). ISBN 0500239290, 9780500239292; Dimitri Salmon, "Qui Sont Les Ingristes d’Aujourd’hui?," Grande Galerie: Le Journal du Louvre, June ...
[10] [11] The owner's account, Harry Hahn's The Rape of La Belle (1946) is a classic of populist conspiracy theory applied to the art world. After decades in an Omaha vault, the Hahn La Belle was sold at auction by Sotheby's on January 28, 2010 as "by a follower of Leonardo, probably before 1750"; it brought $1.5 million, a price three times ...
The Louvre Museum in Paris has added a “national treasure” to its collection four years after it was discovered during a house clearance. Long-lost $26 million masterpiece found in kitchen ...
In 1982, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City featured the unknown artist Louise Bourgeois' work. She was 70 years old and a mixed media artist who worked on paper and with metal, marble and animal skeletal bones. Childhood family traumas "bred an exorcism in art", and she desperately attempted to purge her unrest through her work.