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By African-American artist Laura Wheeler Waring (1877-1948), After Sunday Service, ca. 1940, oil on Canvas, 30 x 14 1/2 inches (76.2 x 36.8 cm), collection of the Petrucci Family Foundation. #arthistory #art #blackartists #blackart #womanartist #womenartists

From The Art Story: “With Edmonia Lewis, Meta Vaux Warrick, and Augusta Savage, Waring is one of the foremost Black American female artists of the first half of the twentieth century. Taking her stylistic lead from the likes of Monet, Manet, Corot and Cézanne, Waring emerged, with Aaron Douglass and Beauford Delaney, as one of the most influential portrait painters associated with the Harlem Renaissance, the influential movement in African American literary, artistic, and cultural history that thrived between 1918 and the late 1930s. Challenging racial stereotypes, she built her reputation on portraits of prominent African Americans which she executed with consummate skill and imagination. Waring is equally respected for her life-long dedication to the advancement of Black culture and history through her role as director of arts education programs at America's oldest Black teaching institutions.”

Laura G, Sassy 70’s May 29

Your art history post for today: by African-American artist Laura Wheeler Waring (1887-1948), Woman with Bouquet, ca. 1940, oil on canvas, Brooklyn Museum. #arthistory #blackartists #blackartist #blackart #womanartist #womenartists

From the museum: “With hand on hip and confident bearing, this woman is self-assured and elegant. She was probably from the Philadelphia area, where the artist Laura Wheeler Waring lived and worked. Like Waring’s other portraits of sophisticated or dignified working-class African Americans, this painting countered the many racial stereotypes that were prevalent at the time. Waring’s work, with its strong color palette and energetic brushwork, flourished during the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s, a period of great African American artistic and cultural production.”

Laura G, Sassy 70’s May 22

By Marie Spartali Stillman (1844-1927), “The last sight of Fiammetta,” watercolor, bodycolour and gum arabic, 82 x 62cm (32 5/16 x 24 7/16inches), photo: Bonhams London, 21 September 2022. #arthistory #painting #watercolor #womanartist #womenartists

From Eclectic Light Company, September 22, 2016: “Now unfortunately overshadowed by Impressionism, the Pre-Raphaelite movement was a major influence in European painting in the middle and later years of the 1800s. The core of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was small and transient, but the movement and its periphery spread further, and lasted until the early twentieth century. Like Impressionism, it was also notable for being one of the first art movements in Europe in which women artists became a major influence.

Today, the women of the Pre-Raphaelite movement are mainly known as models, lovers, and partners; at the time, several were productive and original painters in their own right, but somehow their work never got into major public collections, and is now generally overlooked. Of the women painters who were part of the movement, probably the most prolific and significant was Marie Spartali Stillman (1844–1927).”

And from the same website, November 6, 2020: “Her obituary in The Times (for which her husband had written so much) seems to have decided her fate in the history of art, though: it dwelled on her beauty, grace, and charm. Its single short paragraph about her art described it as a leisuretime activity. No catalogue raisonné of her work has been attempted, but more than 150 paintings of hers are known or survive, from a career which lasted about sixty years, during which her paintings were exhibited throughout the UK, in France, Italy, and Boston and New York in the USA.

If any of the Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood should rank alongside its original Brotherhood, surely she should be Marie Spartali Stillman, one of the great British painters of the nineteenth century.”

Laura G, Sassy 70’s May 15

By African-American artist Manet Harrison Fowler, Still life with flowers and Tuskegee pennant, 1966, watercolor on paper, 17 3/4 × 14 1/2 inches, photo: Swann Galleries, March 24, 2022. #art #blackart #blackartist #womanartist #womenartists

From the gallery: "Manet Harrison Fowler (1895-1976) was a Texas native and 1913 graduate of the Tuskegee Institute who later studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and toured the country as a soprano opera singer. She brought the Mwalim Center for African Culture to Harlem in 1932, and became an important figure in the Harlem Renaissance.”

Laura G, Sassy 70’s May 11

Fruit and Flowers, c. 1630, Orsola Maddalena Caccia (Italian, Moncalvo 1596–1676 Moncalvo), on canvas, 30 × 39 in., The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. #arthistory #womanartist #womenartists

From Art Herstory: “Like many of the earliest known women painters of the Renaissance, Orsola Maddalena Caccia (1596–1676) was a nun. She was born Theodora Caccia; she adopted the name Orsola Maddalena when she took her vows as an Ursuline sister. Later she, along with her five sisters, joined a convent founded by their father, painter Guglielmo Caccia, in Moncalvo. Of the six Caccia sisters, only Orsola Maddalena and Francesca were painters.

As far as we know, no paintings by Francesca Caccia survive. But a number of works by Orsola Maddalena still exist today, many in the area of Italy where she lived and worked. These paintings include the Nativity featured here; Birth of the Virgin; St. Luke the Evangelist in the Studio; The Birth of John the Baptist; and several other religious works. She also painted still lifes with flowers and birds. She is said to have helped bring the genre of still life painting to Northwestern Italy.

In 2020, a collector bequeathed three paintings by the artist to The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. As a result of this bequest, The Met now boasts the largest collection of works by the Mannerist painter-nun outside the artist’s native Italy.”

Laura G, Sassy 70’s May 6

By Lorraine Schneider (1925-1972), Primer ("War is not healthy for children and other living things"), 1966, etched print, 2 x 2 inches, photo: Bonhams New York, 4 June 2014. #arthistory #printmaking #womanartist #womenartists #war

The lot essay: ‘ONE OF THE MOST ICONIC ANTI-WAR IMAGES TO EMERGE FROM THE VIETNAM ERA. The simple image of a sunflower with the equally simple but profoundly powerful statement "War is not healthy for children and other living things," was originally created by Los Angeles artist Lorraine Schneider for a miniature print contest at Pratt. It has since become one of the most reproduced and recognizable anti-war statements of the modern era. Schneider granted the use of the image to the anti-war organization Another Mother for Peace; as writer, peace activist, and Another Mother founding member Barbara Avedon recounts, "On February 8, 1967 fifteen friends met at our house to discuss 'doing something' about the war in Vietnam ... We decided to send a Mother's Day card to Washington. We would print and distribute one thousand letters of protest that said in a very ladylike fashion 'For my Mother's Day gift this year I don't want candy or flowers. I want an end to killing. We who have given life must be dedicated to preserving it. Please talk peace' ... I called Lorraine and asked if we could use Primer on the face of the card. She sad yes, and one thousand cards became two hundred thousand cards. And because of her genius 'Another Mother for Peace' was born" (Lorraine Art Schneider ... An Illustrated Catalogue p xi). The card was presented and read on air by the Smothers Brothers during their "Comedy Hour" a week before Mother's Day 1967, with viewers instructed to write if they would like a copy of the card– an act which incensed CBS executives, and launched the image and slogan on its path to ubiquity.
The present example was exhibited at the Autry Museum in Los Angeles from May 2013 - January 2014. Poster versions frequently appear in exhibitions of protest art, most recently at the Century of the Child exhibition at MOMA in 2012.
"The effect of that tiny etching upon people all over the world is incalculable ... Copies have appeared on greeting cards, jewelry, bumper stickers, posters and stamps, to mention only a few areas of distribution. It has become a symbol of peace throughout the world" (ibid, p xv).’

Laura G, Sassy 70’s May 4

By Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986), Two Calla Lilies on Pink, 1928, oil on canvas, 40 × 30 inches (101.6 × 76.2 cm), Philadelphia Museum of Art. #arthistory #womanartist #womenartists

From the museum: ‘Georgia O’Keeffe once remarked, “What is my experience of the flower if not color?” This painting of two calla lilies is an extraordinary example of her floral compositions, made of sweeping, broad waves of subtly blended hues. The white petals, highlighted in green, are arranged against a pink backdrop, and from each one emerges a bright yellow pistil. Many have interpreted O’Keeffe’s depictions of floral anatomy in relation to sexuality and gender, but the artist always resisted these interpretations, considering them too specific and limiting.’

Sonia Hivert Apr 20

Boussole

Pourquoi devrais-je chercher à donner un sens à ce dessin alors que, la vie, elle, n’en a pas…

✏️Technique mixte sur papier/ Mixed media on paper : A3 / 2026📃

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Sonia Hivert Apr 10

Insomnie

Un dessin réalisé par couches successives d’encre, de gouache, d’aquarelle, de crayons et craies. J’ai voulu essayer de rendre l’état vaporeux et embrumé d’un sommeil qui se cherche et qui défie la nuit.

✏️Technique mixte sur papier/ Mixed media on paper : A3 / 2026📃

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