Tag: woman artist
Transitional Positions: A Virtual Exhibition Curated by Eric Fischl
Guest curated by Eric Fischl, this online-only show features works by the gallery’s mainstay German and Austrian Expressionists, alongside contemporary female masters of figurative painting Ellen B... Read More
In the midst of an epidemic: Sue Coe chronicles the time when AIDS was a death sentence
"I’ve always found it difficult to describe to students and trainees what it was like to work in the midst of the [AIDS] epidemic. Sue Coe’s drawings say it all, and more.”... Read More
Celebrating Women’s History Month:
Anna Mary Robertson (“Grandma”) Moses
"Memory is a painter. It paints pictures of the past and of the day"...
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Celebrating Women’s History Month:
Käthe Kollwitz
“Few artists are as universally loved as Käthe Kollwitz” — Elizabeth Prelinger, National Gallery of Art Like other successful women artists of her generation, Käthe Kollwitz was an...
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Celebrating Women’s History Month:
Marie-Louise Motesiczky
“You are a very great painter, and the world will hear of you” — Elias Canetti, letter to the artist Born in 1906, Marie-Louise Motesiczky belonged to one of Vienna’s most prominen...
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Celebrating Women’s History Month:
Paula Modersohn-Becker
“Modersohn-Becker painted from an implicitly feminist point of view, granting women a memorable emotional complexity through the physicality of her paint and the solidity of her forms” ...
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Why Are the Most Expensive Artists STILL Male?
Amadeo Modigliani became the latest man to join the nine-figure club when his "Reclining Nude" sold for $170.4 million at Christie’s on November 9, 2015. Why are all the most expensive artists male?... Read More
Paula Modersohn-Becker: Art and Life
(November 3, 2015 – March 19, 2016)
Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876-1907) was almost completely unknown when she died following childbirth at the age of thirty-one, but within fifteen years she had become a near mythic figure in her native...
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