“Remember the Ladies”

June 21, 2021 at 7:59 am

“IN THE SPIRIT OF CELEBRATING OVERLOOKED CAREERS…” A museum on the southern coast of Maine, in the small enclave called Ogunquit, is hosting a small exhibition of work by women artists dating from the first half of the twentieth century. Its title — “Remember the Ladies” — is a phrase […]

Forgotten women artists

May 18, 2021 at 12:37 pm

The wonderful and hard-working Ghaddra sent me this. It is about forgotten women artists, a series by the Journal of Art in Society. In this case, the focus is on a woman named Marie-Gabrielle Capet. Marie-Gabrielle Capet, who painted the self-portrait to the left in 1783 or 1784, was a […]