Marie Laurencin and the Autonomy of Self-Representation

Guest post by Mary Creed Fig. 1. Marie Laurencin, Self-Portrait, 1906. Colored pencil and pencil on notebook paper. Museum of Modern Art, New York. © 2021 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris In an attempt to tell a more inclusive story of modern art,...

Anna Boberg: Artist, Wife, Polar Explorer

Guest Post by Isabelle Gapp, Incoming Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Toronto Imagine for a moment a woman clad in reindeer-fur breeches, the coarse hair of the animal hide layered  above nutukas (traditional Sámi footwear), while a fur coat,...

Bolognese Women Artists at Christ Church, Oxford

Drawings by Elisabetta Sirani and Properzia de’ Rossi Guest post by Jacqueline Thalmann, Christ Church, Oxford One of Britain’s most important Old Master drawings collections is held in Christ Church, one of Oxford’s largest colleges. Among the almost 2,000...