Marie Laurencin (1883 – 1956) was a French painter who became a member of Natalie Clifford Barney’s salon in Paris in the 1920s.
Category: Lesbian art herstory
Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art has launched a videostream at Vimeo and I would like to recommend their videos documenting a panel debate held alongside the museum’s inaugural show in 2011: Lesbians Seeing Lesbians – Artist & Curator Panel Discussion (part 1) and part 2 of the panel debate….
Slideshow with paintings by Romaine Brooks Romaine Brooks Lesbian Art Herstory: American Painter Romaine Brooks (1874 – 1970) worked in Paris and on Capri in the 1920s. She best known for her images of women in androgynous or masculine dress having, and has among others painted a painting of a…
Video: présentation de l’exposition Berenice Abbott.
Published by Jeu de Paume, Paris 2012.
Sorry the pomotional fundraising video for the Breast Portrait Project by Artist Clarity Haynes published by Martha Shane on Vimeo (2011) has been deleted by the owner. This project was successfully funded a year ago. Making Herstory Sorry, this video has also been deleted. Video description: Clarity Haynes discusses her…
A Young Girl by Wyle from E. Sweeney on Vimeo. “I love it” ~ Charlie Hill, Curator of Canadian Art, National Gallery of Canada. Lesbian Art Herstory: Frances Loring and Florence Wyle Frances Loring (1881?-1968) and Florence Wyle (ca 1887-1968) artists and American bohemians living and working together in Toronto,…
Weimar – Jeanne Mammen by f.fiorellino Jeanne Mammen (1890-1976) watercolorist, painter, printmaker was born in Berlin, grew up in Paris where she got her fine arts education, and she lived most of her adult life in Berlin. “Working in Germany in the 1920s and 1930s, Jeanne Mammen (1890-1976) produced graphics,…
Watch this short walk through an exhibition with nude photographs by bisexual photographer Germaine Krull on Youtube.
Glasgow Street Kids by British painter Joan Eardley (1921 – 1963) Related Link Read about Joan Eardley at Wikipedia
Harmony Hammond is a visual artist, art writer and independent curator, who lives and works in Galisteo, New Mexico, USA. She is one of the pioneers of the American feminist art movement.
French lesbian photographer Claude Cahun’s surrealist works are growing more and more popular. Go see the latest retrospective of her works in Barcelona: Claude Cahun 28 October 2011 to 2 February 2012 at Centre de Imatge, Barcelona, Spain “After many years of relative obscurity, the photographs of Claude Cahun (born…
Lenore Chinn on Bernice Bing from Rehistoricizing.org on Vimeo. Bernice Bing (1936-1998) a Chinese American Painter and Queer Artist Bernice Bing was a third-generation American Chinese born in Chinatown, San Francisco in 1936. In 1958, Bernice attended California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, but she soon transferred to…
Lesbian Art Herstory: Claude Cahun
Art Herstory: German bisexual artist Hannah Höch (1889-1978) is best known for her photomontages, though she also made drawings and paintings. Between 1912 and 1920, she studied art at the Kunstgewerbeschule Charlottenburg (Charlottenburg School of Applied Arts) and the Unterrichtsanstalt des königlichen Kunstgewerbemuseums (School of the Royal Museum of Applied…
Press release from The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art Lesbians Seeing Lesbians Building Community in Early Feminist Photography Exhibition Ends October 22, 2011 at the Leslie-Lohman Gallery, 26 Wooster Street, NYC, USA Tee Corrine, Self-portrait, Gelatin silver print, 1980. Press photo courtesy of Leslie-Lohman Gallery. In the wake…
Doin’ It in Public: Feminism and Art at the Woman’s Building, Oct. 1, 2010 – Jan. 28, 2012 at BEN MALTZ GALLERY.
American Laura Gilpin, (1891-1979) is best know for her landscapes of the Southwest and of her photos of the Navajo. She also frequently photographed her partner Elizabeth ‘Betsy’ Forster.
Agnes Noyes Goodsir (1864-1939) was an Australian painter and closeted lesbian. Learn more about Agnes Noyes Goodsir at glbtq.com
Portrait de Madame M. by Tamara de Lempickaset a new world auction record for the artist when it sold for $6,130,500 at Christie’s in 2009.
Dora Carrington painted only for her own pleasure, did not sign her works, and rarely exhibited them, hence she was not well known as a painter during her lifetime.