In the blazing heat of August, let’s look at the color orange: by Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986), Red Canna, 1924, oil on canvas, 29 by 18 inches (73.7 by 45.7 cm), photo: Sotheby’s. #art #womenartists #womanartist

A quote from the artist: “A flower is relatively small. Everyone has many associations with a flower… still, in a way, nobody really sees a flower, really, it is so small….So I said to myself, I’ll paint what I see, but I’ll paint it big and they will be surprised into taking time to look at it, even busy New Yorkers [will] take time to see what I see of flowers.”

#introduction Greetings. Rejoining this server with a new account some years after being locked out of my first Mastodon one, circa 2018. Introducing myself by way of a bunch of hashtags of interest, as one does.

My profile image is a 1940 painting by Dorothea Tanning, "Deirdre" (of the Sorrows).

#surrealism #magicalrealism #painting #womenartists #feminism #kindness #dsa #socialism #wildlife #nature #newengland #forest #music #film #hermitcraft #knitting #cats #museums #crafts #whimsy #AuDHD

By Evelyn Rumsey Cary (1855-1924), Woman’s Suffrage, 1905, oil on canvas, 40-7/8 x 23-5 inches (103.8 x 60 cm), collection of The Wolfsonian–Florida International University. #arthistory #womenartists #womanartist #painting #oilpainting #VotingRights #suffragehistory

Definition of suffrage: “the right to vote, especially in a political election.”

The quote beneath the woman is Proverbs 31:31 (KJV): “Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates.”

The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, passed in 1920, guarantees women the right to vote. However neither men nor women of color had that guarantee until the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

I love "A Lapful of Windfalls", a 1935 wood engraving by Clare Leighton.

#Art #WoodEngraving #ClareLeighton #Print #WomenArtists #BritishArt #BritishAmericanArtists #TwentiethCenturyArt #1930s

I love Amie McNee and her art rebellion!! With her book We Need Your Art, she inspired me to keep creating and sharing my music ❤️🎶

📖 The We Need Your Art book: amiemcnee.com/order-we-need-yo…
🎧 My electronic altpop art: kayleighbeard.bandcamp.com/

#books #favouritebooks #amiemcnee #weneedyourart #author #inspiration #creative #creativity #artist #artists #artistsonpixelfed #womenartists #music #electronicmusic #alternativemusic #bandcamp #artquotes #art #artpop #music #painting #poetry

Amie McNee is an incredible author. With her book "We Need Your Art" she inspired me to keep creating, even though an artist's life is not always easy and I had to work other jobs. Her inspiring words are the reason for my ever growing discography of songs. I absolutely love making alternative electronic pop with my synthesizer, dreamy basslines, powerful beats and spacious vocals 🎶🎹 (check out here: kayleighbeard.bandcamp.com/) 🎧

Amie's fiction novels are also really good. For example, I really enjoyed her witchy novel "Regrettably, I am About to Cause Trouble". 🧙🏻‍♀️ More info: amiemcnee.com/

#books #favouritebooks #amiemcnee #weneedyourart #author #inspiration #creative #creativity #artist #artists #artistsonpixelfed #womenartists #music #electronicmusic #alternativemusic #bandcamp #fiction #nonfiction #witchy #witch #synthesizer #silentsunday

"Girl in a Pink Dress," Laura Wheeler Waring, 1927.

Waring (1887-1948) was THE great portrait artist of the Harlem Renaissance. Her depictions of major figures in Black history make her worthy of study.

Here we have a portrait of an unidentified young Black woman in a stylist 20s dress, with a stylish 20s hairdo. This is a young lady of fashion, very up-to-the-minute.

But also, her youth, the choice of pink for her dress, and the corsage at her shoulder...this hints at blossoming and young vitality. "Here," Wheeler may be saying, "is the future of Black America, just coming into blossom!"

I've talked about Waring before, including her many portraits and her years teaching, so I won't go into her life story. But I just love this portrait of a young, vital, serene woman, waiting to take on the world.

Happy Portrait Monday!

From a private collection.

#Art #LauraWheelerWaring #WomenArtists #WomenInArt #BlackHistoryMonth #PortraitMonday #HarlemRenaissance #YouthInBlossom #FutureOfAmerica

Cat in a blanket. Or, how one feels on rainy, cold days. 🐈‍⬛
Made in aquarelle and ink.

#illustration #cat #art #fediart #artist #womenartists #traditionalart #aquarelle #ink #thursday #rain #strasbourg #france

"Falling Leaves," Olga Wisinger-Florian, 1899.

Wisinger-Florian (1844-1926) was an Austrian-born member of the Stimmungsimpressionismus (or Mood Impressionist) movement of late 19th century Vienna. While something like this might be considered fairly standard work, at the time it was viewed as quite avant-garde.

After a career as a concert pianist ended due to a hand injury (seriously!), she learned painting under the noted Emil Schindler, and much of her work was in his style. But in 1884 she broke with him and adopted a stronger, more Expressionistic style which was very ahead of its time. She was quite renowned in her time, exhibiting at the Chicago World's Fair and fetching significant prices for her work.

Her work was largely landscapes and floral still lifes; today her body of work may seem conventional but it was different enough in her time to win her applause. And at least this work is very nice and seasonal.

From the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna.

#Art #Impressionism #OlgaWisingerFlorian #WomenArtists #Autumn

Painting - Young Woman In Green Outdoors In The Sun By Mary Cassatt

#SilentSunday #art #impressionism #womenartists

In celebration of Loving Day, we're sharing "New Hope" by Corita Kent. This serigraph from 1966 is dedicated to Mildred and Richard Loving. At that time the Lovings were plaintiffs in the midst of the Supreme Court case that ultimately struck down states’ bans on interracial marriage the following year on June 12. 1/2

#LovingDay #EECummings #CoritaKent #WomenArtists #PopArt #Art #ProtestArt #USHistory #Histodons @art @histodons

"Tree of Paradise," Séraphine Louis, 1926.

Louis (1864-1942) was a self-taught painter inspired by her own intense religious faith, and stained-glass windows in her local church.

A domestic servant, first at a local convent and later by assorted bourgeois families in the town of Senlis, she painted privately on various objects until 1912, when one of her employers, an art collector, stumbled on her work and was greatly impressed. He encouraged her to work more and supplied paints and canvases for her to work on. She was launched into a world of critical and financial success...but was ill-equipped to handle it and lost most of the money she made.

By 1932 her mental health, which was always wobbly, deteriorated to the point that she had to be institutionalized. She spent the rest of her life in an institution, sadly denied any sort of artistic outlet. Today she is remembered as a significant outsider artist.

From the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

#Art #WomenArtists #OutsiderArt #SeraphineLouis #SelfTaught #SadStory

First I paint the freshly picked flowers and let them dry. I also paint them withered.

I always like more the result of the withered still life. As in this case ;)
Beauty is in the change, isn't it?

#art #contemporaryart #painters #oilpainting #womenartists #iloveflowers
#galiza

Born this day in 1884, on Neskuchnoye estate in Ukraine, the marvelous painter Zinaida Serebriakova. Here by herself at mirror in 1909. #art #painting #womenartists #Ukraine

@PP_Rubens

"Quilt, Tumbling Blocks with Signatures Pattern," Adeline Harris Sears, begun 1856.

Sears (1830-1931) was only 17 when she had the idea for this quilt. She mailed diamonds of white silk to every significant person she could think of or read about, requesting they be autographed and mailed back. Most people did.

Sears' family was wealthy, and it's said she got Lincoln's autograph in person, and danced with him at his inauguration.

There's writers like Hawthorne, Dickens, Emerson, Irving, Longfellow, Julia Ward Howe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and a number of scientists, politicians (with eight Presidents!), artists, educators, Civil War heroes, and clergy. It took her 11 years to complete the quilt, which has 360 signatures in all, and a total of 1,840 patches of cloth. The quilt was written about in national magazines of the time, and is now a museum piece.

Sears did other quilts, but nothing on the same level as this, a document of its time.

From the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

#Art #WomenArtists #FabricArt #Quilts #Autographs #TumblingBlocks