A self-portrait by Mexican artist Frida Kahlo is expected to break records when it goes up for auction in New York this week. The surrealist painting, being sold on November 20 by a private collector, ...
A new exhibition at the National Museum of Women in the Arts spotlights 40 women who found fame in the Low Countries between 1600 and 1750, including Koerten, Judith Leyster and Clara Peeters Meilan ...
The 19th century was an era of both romanticism and rapid change. It was a time when the public's perception of power and beauty was shaped by the masterful brushstrokes of a portrait artist. Yet, as ...
She’s the first woman, and the first Canadian, to present a solo exhibit of her work at the Library of Congress, and two of her paintings can be found at Washington’s National Portrait Gallery. You’d ...
In 2024 Southern Illinois University, along with the Sharp Museum, hosted an exhibit called Women’s Voices. These are stories from some of the featured artists. Documentaries is available to stream on ...
Lavinia Fontana definitely lived her best life. She defied gender norms to become the breadwinner of her family, she fielded numerous pleas for portraits from noblewomen, and she inserted dogs—a ...
Fashion is central to the Polish painter’s portraits, especially so since the identity of the sitters is concealed by fabric, flora, or elaborate hair styles. Using traditional European oil painting ...
Bergdorf Goodman is unveiling a public exhibition by the artist Jason Bard Yarmosky. Titled “Timeless Women in New York,” the show features five 7-foot portraits of inspiring women who the artist ...
A detail of Artist Nelson Shanks painting, The Four Justices , a 9-foot 6-inch by 7-foot 9-inch oil on canvas portrait of the first four female justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, top row, from left, ...
How I wish I’d known of this powerful painting when I was a student at the Slade! It would have helped me refute the lie that female artists had never produced anything meaningful. We students were ...
For a decade, Clémence Polès Farhang asked women on city streets if she could take their picture. This week, the photographs had their first exhibition. By Lindsay Gellman A decade ago, when Clémence ...
At one point in the new movie Portraits of Dangerous Women, young woman Ashley (Yasmin Monet Prince) is talking to gallery owner Jon (Mark Lewis Jones) about her collection of found photographs. “I ...