Tess Kutasz Christensen has recently contributed an article to AWARE Women Artists on needle painter Mary Linwood, who was patronized by Queen Charlotte & ran the first woman-owned gallery in London, showing her extraordinary needlework copies of paintings.

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Lund Humphries Also central to the historic portion of the Women Reframe American Landscape show opening 5/4 at Woodson Art Museum is C19th American artist #FideliaBridges . Fidelia Bridges: Nature into Art, by Katherine Manthorne, The Graduate Center, is a wonderful tribute to her: lundhumphries.com/products/fidel…

The Lund Humphries book SUSIE M. BARSTOW: REDEFINING THE HUDSON RIVER SCHOOL by Nancy Siegel is the first monographic study of the artist and one of the very few to focus exclusively on an American woman landscape painter of the 19th century...
More info: lundhumphries.com/products/susie…

Opening on 4th May: Women Reframe American Landscape Woodson Art Museum > lywam.org/exhibition/wom…
A retrospective of American landscape painter Susie Barstow (1836-1923) is presented alongside contemporary works that expand and challenge contemporary conceptions of 'landscape.”

Irish artist Mainie Jellett was born OTD in 1897
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On May 2, author Andrea Pappas will lecture at Winterthur Museum about key elements of her new book Embroidering the Landscape: Women, Art and the Environment in British North America, 1740-1770 -
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[TO READ] 'Art Bites: Rosa Bonheur Had to Go Incognito to Paint ‘The Horse Fair’' Artnet news.artnet.com/art-world/art-…

Correcting the narrative #AtTheMuseums : “Look Again: Portraits of Daring Women by Julie Lapping Rivera” is now open!
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Visit our blog to see how printmaking and poetry collide to showcase each woman’s impact:
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Head of a Girl, 1885, by #MariaZambaco (British, 1843-1914) who was born #otd , Apr 29. Held by @BritishMuseum; source, facebook.com/photo/?fbid=19… #womenartists #artherstory

Innocentius XII, Pontifex Maximus, 1691, engraved by #SuorIsabellaPiccini (born #ElisabettaPiccini , Italian, 1644–1734), who died #otd (Apr 29). Private collection; source, @Female Artists in History, facebook.com/photo/?fbid=23… #womenartists #artherstory #nuntastic

Saint Catherine of Siena, 1611-14, by #LaviniaFontana (Italian, 1552-1614). Held in Santa Maria della Pace; source, commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lavi… #artherstory #womenartists #FeastofStCatherineofSiena #StCatherineofSiena

📅 #OTD 1622, #Holland .
Princess Louise Hollandine, second daughter of Elizabeth of Bohemia, was born just after midday.
An accomplished artist, she went on to convert to Catholicism & lived out her days as the Abbess of Maubuisson, in France.

Very excited to explore Spotlight on #WomenArtists at the MBAM! mbam.qc.ca/en/news/spotli…

Watch this space for a link to a full description on the blog of the works that are newly on view…

Pictured: Vase of Flowers, c. 1670, by Maria van Oosterwyck, MBAM

A branch of sandalwood in leaf and berry / Santalum Cunninghamii, c. 1890, by #SarahAnnFeaton (nee Porter; New Zealander, 1848?-1927), who died #otd , Apr 28. Held by National Library of New Zealand; source, DigitalNZ | Ā-Tihi o Aotearoa, digitalnz.org/records/231870… #womenartists #artherstory #hernaturalhistory

Flower Drawings (hibiscus & nasturtium?), C18th, by #MadeleineFrançoiseBasseporte (French, 1701-1780), who was born #otd , Apr 28. From Recueil de dessins de fleurs, held by Bibliothèque BnF, gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv… #womenartists #artherstory #hernaturalhistory

'Else B. is a beautifully illustrated & written biography. It is another example of the dynamic non-fiction available to children today (but I can't say I'm surprised, since we loved Jeanne Walker Harvey's Ablaze with Color)' Thank you!❤️Enter the giveaway glassofwineglassofmilk.blogspot.com/2024/04/else-b…

Can’t wait for this. It’ll be fascinating to see the work of #Trailblazer #BarbaraBodichon in context.

One more Dorothy Hepworth painting from the intriguing show about her art deception with Patricia Preece The Charleston Trust in Lewes. This is Still Life with Fruit and Bottles, c. 1927, Private collection. Read about the untold story: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2024/04/a-quee… #artherstory