GLUCK, 6 – 28 February 2017 at The Fine Art Society London, 148 New Bond Street London W1S 2JT, UK
Category: Lesbian art herstory
Video (2:30) LGBT Snapshots’ host talks about the life of French artist Claude Cahun (1894 – 1954).
‘Still Life with a View over a Cemetery’ by Ethel Sands – sold March 1923.
Video (7:32): a slideshow with works of art by Hannah Höch and photos of the artist. German Hannah Hoch (1889-1978) was a dada artist and bisexual woman.
American lesbian and painter Anna Klumpke (1856 – 1842) in her studio ca. 1885-90. Courtesy of the Frick Collection/Frick Art Reference Library Archives.
Anna Elizabeth Klumpke (1856–1942): Portrait of Rosa Bonheur, 1898, pastel on paper
55.5 × 45.5 cm. Current location: Bowdoin College Museum of Art.
Video (2.24): Rosa Bonheur, Sheep in the Highlands, 1857 (Wallace Collection, London). Speakers: Dr. Beth Harris, Dr. Steven Zucker talk about Rosa Bonheur’s life as woman painter and the above painting.
Video (3:28): Rosa Bonheur, Plowing in the Nivernais (or The First Dressing), oil on canvas, 1849 (Musée d’Orsay, Paris) Speakers: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.
Anna Klumpke, an American lesbian painter from Boston, met French painter Rosa Bonheur in 1887. They became friends and Anna Klumpke’s biography ‘Rosa Bonheur: sa vie, son oeuvre’ about her colleague was published in 1909.
Romaine Brooks, portrait ca. 1910.
Video (57:12): Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) – Art Discussions: Romaine Brooks, 20th-Century Woman, June 17, 2016. Session 1: Cassandra Langer, art historian and author of ‘Romaine Brooks: A Life’
Video (1:56): the life and art of Edmonia Lewis (1845 – 1907).
Death of Cleopatra – the lost and found sculpture of 19th century African native American artist Edmonia Lewis.
Video slide show (12:28) with sensual images of women by French painter and bisexual Marie Laurencin.
Video slide show (10:13) with paintings by French modernist painter Marie Laurencin (1883 – 1956).
Video (3:22): introduction to Frances Hodgkins’s painting Kimmeridge Foreshore by Christina Barton, Director, Adam Art Gallery at Victoria University of Wellington.
Video (11:49): oil painting conservator Bruce Wood explains the processes needed to restore a 19th Century oil painting of sheeps by Rosa Bonheur.
DADA anders: Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Hannah Höch, Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven runs until May 8, 2016 Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Selnaustrasse 25, 8001 Zürich, Switzerland. To mark the 100th anniversary of the Zurich Dada movement, the Museum Haus Konstruktiv presents the historical group show “DADA differently,” featuring works by the three main women…
Video (3.55): Slide show with works by Hanna Höch. Hannah Höch (November 1, 1889 – May 31, 1978) was a German Dada artist. Music: Missy Elliott – Get Ur Freak On.
Claude Cahun: Beneath This Mask, January 22 2016 – March 5, 2016 at Exeter Phoenix, Bradninch Place, Gandy Street, Exeter, EX4 3LS, UK.