Lottie Whalen
@lwhalen.bsky.social
Writer, Radicals & Rogues: the Women Who Made New York Modern (2023). Co-founder of arts & craft platform Decorating Dissidence. linktr.ee/lottiewhalen
🌳🍃Larkin on a glorious spring day in Glasgow, via @calligraphyoutside.bsky.social 🌳🍃
April 12, 2025 at 8:41 AM
🌳🍃Larkin on a glorious spring day in Glasgow, via @calligraphyoutside.bsky.social 🌳🍃
Towards the end of her long, colourful life, Beatrice Wood became known as the Mama of Dada and attributed her great longevity to ‘art books, chocolate & young men’! Read more in @decodissidence.bsky.social newsletter: open.substack.com/pub/decorati...
March 12, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Towards the end of her long, colourful life, Beatrice Wood became known as the Mama of Dada and attributed her great longevity to ‘art books, chocolate & young men’! Read more in @decodissidence.bsky.social newsletter: open.substack.com/pub/decorati...
Beatrice Wood (March 3 1893-March 12 1998). A co-conspirator in Duchamp’s Fountain scandal, she became a ceramicist in mid-life after training with Gertrud & Otto Natzler. Alongside luster glazed vessels, she crafted kitsch, playful figurines that channeled the spirit of Dada.
March 12, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Beatrice Wood (March 3 1893-March 12 1998). A co-conspirator in Duchamp’s Fountain scandal, she became a ceramicist in mid-life after training with Gertrud & Otto Natzler. Alongside luster glazed vessels, she crafted kitsch, playful figurines that channeled the spirit of Dada.
Lithograph by Katharine N Rhoades for a 1915 issue of avant-garde NY journal 291. Showing a gun positioned between a sperm & ovum, it responds to a notice in the same issue: ‘Motherhood a Crime’, about the case of a young woman who killed herself due to ‘shame’ & fear of her illegitimate pregnancy.
January 20, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Lithograph by Katharine N Rhoades for a 1915 issue of avant-garde NY journal 291. Showing a gun positioned between a sperm & ovum, it responds to a notice in the same issue: ‘Motherhood a Crime’, about the case of a young woman who killed herself due to ‘shame’ & fear of her illegitimate pregnancy.
Bet Low (1924-2007), ‘An Island on Your Doorstep’ at Glasgow School of Art.
A look at Low’s journey from social realist sketches in post-war Glasgow to painting the sublime landscapes of Scotland’s highland & Orkney Islands.
A look at Low’s journey from social realist sketches in post-war Glasgow to painting the sublime landscapes of Scotland’s highland & Orkney Islands.
January 14, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Bet Low (1924-2007), ‘An Island on Your Doorstep’ at Glasgow School of Art.
A look at Low’s journey from social realist sketches in post-war Glasgow to painting the sublime landscapes of Scotland’s highland & Orkney Islands.
A look at Low’s journey from social realist sketches in post-war Glasgow to painting the sublime landscapes of Scotland’s highland & Orkney Islands.
‘A Happy New Year’, linocut by Marguerite Zorach, c. 1926-28 - donated to MoMA from the collection of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
January 3, 2025 at 7:45 AM
‘A Happy New Year’, linocut by Marguerite Zorach, c. 1926-28 - donated to MoMA from the collection of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
🎄✨Florine Stettheimer, Christmas, c.1930-1940 ✨🎄
December 23, 2024 at 2:39 PM
🎄✨Florine Stettheimer, Christmas, c.1930-1940 ✨🎄
🌗December marks the centenary of Scottish painter Bet Low’s birth (1924-2007) 🌗
For the solstice, some beautiful examples of her moonlit landscapes, showing nightfall on Orkney and the Scottish Highlands 🌚
I profiled Low in her centenary year for Art UK: artuk.org/discover/sto...
For the solstice, some beautiful examples of her moonlit landscapes, showing nightfall on Orkney and the Scottish Highlands 🌚
I profiled Low in her centenary year for Art UK: artuk.org/discover/sto...
December 21, 2024 at 8:45 AM
🌗December marks the centenary of Scottish painter Bet Low’s birth (1924-2007) 🌗
For the solstice, some beautiful examples of her moonlit landscapes, showing nightfall on Orkney and the Scottish Highlands 🌚
I profiled Low in her centenary year for Art UK: artuk.org/discover/sto...
For the solstice, some beautiful examples of her moonlit landscapes, showing nightfall on Orkney and the Scottish Highlands 🌚
I profiled Low in her centenary year for Art UK: artuk.org/discover/sto...
Here’s Nicola L (1932-2018) in Fur Room, 1970
December 16, 2024 at 1:08 PM
Here’s Nicola L (1932-2018) in Fur Room, 1970
Nicola L, ‘I am the Last Woman Object’ at Camden Arts Centre. Witty, subversive takes on sex & gender played out in pleather & fake fur.
December 16, 2024 at 11:44 AM
Nicola L, ‘I am the Last Woman Object’ at Camden Arts Centre. Witty, subversive takes on sex & gender played out in pleather & fake fur.
Maud Sulter, ‘you are my kindred spirit’ at Glasgow’s Tramway. A beautifully curated show of Sulter’s ‘living archive’, exploring lost communities, gaps in archive, cultural erasure - & down the road from the Gorbals, where Sulter grew up & filmed her boarded up home for ‘No Oxford Spires’
November 27, 2024 at 4:11 PM
Maud Sulter, ‘you are my kindred spirit’ at Glasgow’s Tramway. A beautifully curated show of Sulter’s ‘living archive’, exploring lost communities, gaps in archive, cultural erasure - & down the road from the Gorbals, where Sulter grew up & filmed her boarded up home for ‘No Oxford Spires’
❄️ A painting for a snowy day in the UK - Georgia O’Keeffe, Black Door With Snow (1953-1955) ❄️
November 19, 2024 at 10:31 AM
❄️ A painting for a snowy day in the UK - Georgia O’Keeffe, Black Door With Snow (1953-1955) ❄️
🎉My book Radicals & Rogues: the Women Who Made NYC Modern has been out for 1 yr 🎉
It explores the stories of a network of creative women at the forefront of modernism in NYC, amid a climate of Comstock’s anti-obscenity raids, radical politics, & women’s fight for bodily autonomy. 📖 bit.ly/4foX6ze
It explores the stories of a network of creative women at the forefront of modernism in NYC, amid a climate of Comstock’s anti-obscenity raids, radical politics, & women’s fight for bodily autonomy. 📖 bit.ly/4foX6ze
November 12, 2024 at 3:58 PM
🎉My book Radicals & Rogues: the Women Who Made NYC Modern has been out for 1 yr 🎉
It explores the stories of a network of creative women at the forefront of modernism in NYC, amid a climate of Comstock’s anti-obscenity raids, radical politics, & women’s fight for bodily autonomy. 📖 bit.ly/4foX6ze
It explores the stories of a network of creative women at the forefront of modernism in NYC, amid a climate of Comstock’s anti-obscenity raids, radical politics, & women’s fight for bodily autonomy. 📖 bit.ly/4foX6ze
Rediscovering the comfort & joy of local libraries via a little person. So essential for our communities.
November 8, 2024 at 5:25 PM
Rediscovering the comfort & joy of local libraries via a little person. So essential for our communities.
NYC born artist Clara Tice's joyful sketched nudes were part of an early 20thc movement to celebrate & claim new freedoms for women, cntrd around Greenwich Village. Her exhibition at radical cafe Polly's drew the ire of anti-vice crusader Anthony Comstock (infamous once again) who branded it obscene
November 5, 2024 at 5:07 PM
NYC born artist Clara Tice's joyful sketched nudes were part of an early 20thc movement to celebrate & claim new freedoms for women, cntrd around Greenwich Village. Her exhibition at radical cafe Polly's drew the ire of anti-vice crusader Anthony Comstock (infamous once again) who branded it obscene
For the Decorating Dissidence newsletter, we look at c.1969s and 70s work of textile designer Shirley Craven. She became creative director of the influential Hull Traders aged 29 - her work captured the post-war spirit of optimism & aimed to make bold modern design available to all bit.ly/4fpuohk
November 1, 2024 at 6:05 PM
For the Decorating Dissidence newsletter, we look at c.1969s and 70s work of textile designer Shirley Craven. She became creative director of the influential Hull Traders aged 29 - her work captured the post-war spirit of optimism & aimed to make bold modern design available to all bit.ly/4fpuohk
For the launch of the Turner Prize @decodissidence.bsky.social published an interview I did with nominee Delaine Le Bas over the summer. We talked about stitching feminist histories, thinking back through our grandmothers & commemorating lost art from marginalised people. More: bit.ly/3XVqN4T
September 25, 2024 at 5:39 PM
For the launch of the Turner Prize @decodissidence.bsky.social published an interview I did with nominee Delaine Le Bas over the summer. We talked about stitching feminist histories, thinking back through our grandmothers & commemorating lost art from marginalised people. More: bit.ly/3XVqN4T
It's 100 years since the death of legendary ad exec & suffrage activist Helen Landsdowne Resor (1886-1964), who brought sex into advertising long before the Mad Men of the 1960s with her provocative 'A Skin You Love to Touch' campaign for Woodbury Soap in the 1910s.
February 1, 2024 at 12:20 PM
It's 100 years since the death of legendary ad exec & suffrage activist Helen Landsdowne Resor (1886-1964), who brought sex into advertising long before the Mad Men of the 1960s with her provocative 'A Skin You Love to Touch' campaign for Woodbury Soap in the 1910s.
Festive woodcuts made by Marguerite Zorach c 1910s-30s to send as Christmas cards to the family’s friends and patrons 🎄✨
December 24, 2023 at 12:31 PM
Festive woodcuts made by Marguerite Zorach c 1910s-30s to send as Christmas cards to the family’s friends and patrons 🎄✨
So much to take in at Tate’s expansive Women in Revolt! exhibition, but here are three favourite picks (all happen to be Scottish & two textile artists ofc!) - Carole Gibbons, Rita McGurn & Elizabeth Radcliffe 🧶
December 12, 2023 at 12:18 PM
So much to take in at Tate’s expansive Women in Revolt! exhibition, but here are three favourite picks (all happen to be Scottish & two textile artists ofc!) - Carole Gibbons, Rita McGurn & Elizabeth Radcliffe 🧶
Radicals & Rogues: the Women Who Made NYC Modern is released in the US this week!
"A radical exposition of radical women"
"Brings to light...constellations of avant-garde chic, shocking women & creative provocateurs"
Online events w/ Village Preservation & Insider New York in Jan
🔗bit.ly/3ThyYq8
"A radical exposition of radical women"
"Brings to light...constellations of avant-garde chic, shocking women & creative provocateurs"
Online events w/ Village Preservation & Insider New York in Jan
🔗bit.ly/3ThyYq8
December 11, 2023 at 2:17 PM
Radicals & Rogues: the Women Who Made NYC Modern is released in the US this week!
"A radical exposition of radical women"
"Brings to light...constellations of avant-garde chic, shocking women & creative provocateurs"
Online events w/ Village Preservation & Insider New York in Jan
🔗bit.ly/3ThyYq8
"A radical exposition of radical women"
"Brings to light...constellations of avant-garde chic, shocking women & creative provocateurs"
Online events w/ Village Preservation & Insider New York in Jan
🔗bit.ly/3ThyYq8
'5 Dec 1916 Sunwise Turn. Paint at Marcel Duchamp's. He's not there, leaves key for me. Dinner, Alissa Frank. Feel disappointed in people.'
A day in the life of Beatrice Wood, Radicals & Rogues: the Women Who Made New York Modern t.co/0KBstYFFUS
A day in the life of Beatrice Wood, Radicals & Rogues: the Women Who Made New York Modern t.co/0KBstYFFUS
December 5, 2023 at 12:23 PM
'5 Dec 1916 Sunwise Turn. Paint at Marcel Duchamp's. He's not there, leaves key for me. Dinner, Alissa Frank. Feel disappointed in people.'
A day in the life of Beatrice Wood, Radicals & Rogues: the Women Who Made New York Modern t.co/0KBstYFFUS
A day in the life of Beatrice Wood, Radicals & Rogues: the Women Who Made New York Modern t.co/0KBstYFFUS
Brilliant to see Radicals & Rogues: the Women Who Made New York Modern on a little tour of NYC thanks to @jadefrench.bsky.social 🥰 🗽 Here it is in fab company with some of the artists & artwork that ft in it - Beatrice Wood, Florine Stettheimer & Mina Loy 🤩
November 3, 2023 at 2:10 PM
Brilliant to see Radicals & Rogues: the Women Who Made New York Modern on a little tour of NYC thanks to @jadefrench.bsky.social 🥰 🗽 Here it is in fab company with some of the artists & artwork that ft in it - Beatrice Wood, Florine Stettheimer & Mina Loy 🤩
'Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier.’ Marie Laurencin (born on this day 1885 - 1956)
October 31, 2023 at 11:15 AM
'Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier.’ Marie Laurencin (born on this day 1885 - 1956)
⚡️Radicals & Rogues: the Women Who Made New York Modern is out next week ⚡️ It explores creative collaboration & networks formed by women searching for radical new ways to live, love & make art -a journey thru salons, soirées, exhibitions & anarchist cafes amzn.eu/d/0hgbqtx
October 4, 2023 at 11:46 AM
⚡️Radicals & Rogues: the Women Who Made New York Modern is out next week ⚡️ It explores creative collaboration & networks formed by women searching for radical new ways to live, love & make art -a journey thru salons, soirées, exhibitions & anarchist cafes amzn.eu/d/0hgbqtx