by Meryl Ann | Jul 10, 2022 | Quilts & Fiber Art, wearable art, Women Artists
This gorgeous Stomp Dance Skirt for Green Corn Ceremony was made in the 1960s by Peggy Jim Osceola (1932- ) an Independent Seminole who lives in Florida. This skirt is in the Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art collection. Stomp dances are the introductory...
by Meryl Ann | Jul 9, 2022 | Berthe Morisot
Berthe Morisot was one of the organizers of the Impressionist painters first exhibition in 1874, and was the only woman in the show. She exhibited in 7 of the 8 Impressionist exhibitions, only missing the one when her daughter was born. During her lifetime she was...
by Meryl Ann | Jul 8, 2022 | Uncategorized
In the early 1900’s Florence Griswold ran a summer boarding house for artists, mostly ones who came up from NYC to her home in Connecticut. It became the nucleus of the Old Lyme Art Colony and is now in the National Historic Register as the Florence Griswold...
by Meryl Ann | Jul 7, 2022 | Edouard Manet
Hill-Stead Museum is a Colonial Revival house and art museum set on a large estate in Farmington, Connecticut designed by Theodate Pope, who was the first woman to become a licensed architect in NY (and the 6th in CT) and also designed the nearby Avon Old Farms...
by Meryl Ann | Jul 6, 2022 | Mary Cassatt
In times like these, beautiful art is a welcome feast for the eyes and the soul. The exhibition, Whistler to Cassatt: American Painters in France features more than 100 inspiring works by the first wave of expatriate artists to cross the Atlantic. This tour de force...
