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Artemisia Gentileschi, the hero of her own life
Two women are holding a man down on a bed. One presses her first against his head, so he can’t raise it from the mattress, while her companion pins his torso in place. They are well-built with powerful arms but even so it takes their combined strength to keep their […]
Duchamp, Judd, Hockney, Warhol? Mary Heilmann!
Mary Heilmann is remembering the day David Hockney came to teach a class at her college. “He was only a few years older than we were. He came in with his chartreuse suit, white-blond hair. The painters didn’t really want to take his class because he was so radical. But […]
Mary Cassatt Prints and the collector Samuel Putnam Avery
On 2013, up in a hallway off the Rose Main Reading Room of the New York Public Library was a small exhibition of prints from one of Impressionism’s iconic artists. Created between 1878 and 1898 by Mary Cassatt, the quiet depictions of women in repose with family pets or viewing […]
Remembering Forgotten Female Printmakers from the 16th to 19th Centuries
In the 19th century, Henrietta Louisa Koenen, wife the Rijksmuseum Print Room’s first director, took a prescient interest in acquiring prints by women artists. These works date from the 16th century, such as a woodcut by Marie de’ Medici, daughter of Grand Duke of Tuscany Francesco I de’ Medici, to the 19th, with hand-colored engravings by Madame Alliot. In […]
Women in Art: 7 Collectors
Many women in the art world believe if more women began collecting art as well as supporting women artists, there would be a drastic change in how women are viewed and respected in the art world. Unlike their boisterous and boastful male counterparts, most female collectors are very discreet in […]