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Louise Abbema -
Portrait of Sarah Bernhardt 1875,
Giclee Print
b. 10-30-1858; France
d. 1927
• Sarah Bernhardt posters
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HISTORY OF ART
WOMEN
these books are referenced in the short biographies of women artists |
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Helen Allingham -
Mother Helps Her Children Deck a Small Domestic Maypole, Giclee Print
b. 9-26-1848; England
d. 9-28-1926
• dance posters
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Sofonisba Anguisciola -
Self Portrait, 1556,
Giclee Print
b. c. 1532; Cremora, Italy
d. 1625
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Marie Bashkirtseff
b. 11-11-1858; Ukraine
d. 10-31-1884; Paris (tuberculosis)
Marie Bashkirtseff, born to a wealthy Russian noble family, studied painting, wrote articles for Hubertine Auclert's French feminist newspaper, La Citoyenne. She is most noted today for her personal journals, published as "I am the Most Interesting Book of All: The Diary of Marie Bashkirtseff", describing, among other things, the struggles of women artists.
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Vanessa Bell -
Interior with Artist's Daughter, Art Print
b. 5-28-1879; London
d. 4-7-1961
• Virginia Woolf photo
Vanessa Bell was Virginia Woolf's sister.
• Mrs. Dalloway book cover
• To the Lighthouse book cover
• more reading in art posters
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Marie Guilhelmine Benoist,
b. 1768; France
d. 1826
Marie-Guillemine Benoist, the daughter of a government official, studied with Vigee-Lebrun and Jacques-Louis David. She painted in several genres - historical themes, portraiture, and issues of her day - Portrait of a Negress was inspired by the decree to abolish slavery.
References: Women Artists: An Illustrated History by Nancy G. Heller, pp. 63-64.
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Saint Hildegard von Bingen, German Religious Founder and Abbess of Convent of Rupertsberg, Giclee Print
b. 1098; Germany
d. 9-17-1179
• women authors posters
• Hildegard of Bingen: Scivias
• theology posters
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Elizabeth Blackwell,
b. 1700; Scotland
d. 1758
Elizabeth Blackwell (nee Blachrie) is not the Elizabeth Blackwell who earned the first medical degree in the US. This Elizabeth Blackwell was among the first women to achieve fame as a botanical illustrator. As artist and engraver for the plates of A Curious Herbal, designed for physicians as a reference to medicinal plants, she bought her husband's release from debtors prison. (He was there because he squandered her dowry.) • medicinal posters
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Rosa Bonheur,
The Horse Fair,
Art Print
b. 3-16-1822; France
d. 5-25-1899
• more horse posters
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Graciela Rodo Boulange
b. 1935, Bolivia
• opera posters
• Mozart posters
• more children posters
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Margaret Bourke-White,
b. 6-14-1904; Bronx, NY
d. 8-27-1971
• more Gandhi posters
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Marie Bracquemond,
b. 1841; France
d. 1916
Marie Bracquemond was a French Impressionist painter overshadowed, and pushed into the shadows, by her better known artist husband, Felix.
• more Impressionists posters
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Jennie Augusta Brownscombe,
b. 1850; Pennsylvania
d. 1936
Brownscombe was a prolific artist of humble beginnings who has been called "the Norman Rockwell" of her generation. Perhaps her best known work is "The First Thanksgiving" - see this Op-Ed piece from the NY Times for an enlighting viewpoint and a color image here.
• food- fruit posters
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Louise Breslau,
b. 12-6-1856; Germany
d. 5-12-1927; France
Louise Breslau decided to study art when such ambitions were not permitted in her bourgeois class. She eventually went on to become a regular contributor and medal winner at the annual Paris Salon, receiving numerous commissions from wealthy Parisians. Breslau was friends with Edgar Degas and Anatole France.
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Julia Margaret Cameron (née Pattle),
photograph of Charles Darwin
b. 6-11-1815; Calcutta, India
d. 1-26-1879; Ceylon
• Charles Darwin posters
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Rosalba Giovanna Carriera,
Self Portrait,
Giclee Print
b. 10-7-1675; Venice
d. 4-15-1757
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Mary Cassatt,
La Toilette, Giclee Print
b. 5-22-1844; Pennsylvania
d. 6-14-1926; France
• more Mary Cassatt posters
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Marie-Anne Collot,
Portrait Bust of Catherine II, 1770s,
Giclee Print
b. 1748; Paris
d. 2-24-1821
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Maria Cosway,
b. 1760; Italy
d. 1838;
Maria Cosway, born to English parents in Florence, Italy, was an artist as well as a musician. She married Richard Cosway, a painter to the Court of the English royal family in 1779, who despite her artistic gifts and recognition of her talent, stifled her artistic pursuits. In Paris she met, and subsequently became involved with Thomas Jefferson. She went on to found schools for girls in Lyons, France and in Lodi.
References: Seeing Ourselves: Women's Self-Portraits by Frances Borzello, pp.100-101; Women, Art and Society, by Whitney Chadwick, p.149.
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