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Jen S
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Professor | Yogi | Lover of cats, flowers, museums, and good food.
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'The forgotten Monet': How masterful paintings by the artist's stepdaughter are finally getting recognition
by Lucy Davies for BBC
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'The forgotten Monet': How masterful paintings by the artist's stepdaughter are finally getting recognition
Blanche Hoschedé-Monet has barely been acknowledged in art history. But not only did she help her stepfather Claude, she created her own fine works – often of the same scenes as him.
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April 12, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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The Smithsonian Institution, a vast complex of research centers, museums and galleries, is the latest culture target of President Trump's executive orders.
How will Trump's executive order affect the Smithsonian?
The Smithsonian Institution, a vast complex of research centers, museums and galleries, is the latest culture target of President Trump's executive orders.
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March 28, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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St Patrick with a Group of Figures and an Irish Wolfhound, n.d., by #MargaretClarke (nee Crilley; Irish, 1884-1961). Held by the @nationalgalleryirl.bsky.social, onlinecollection.nationalgallery.ie/objects/1415... #artherstory #womenartists #HappyStPatricksDay
A watercolor drawing (with some other media) in muted tones of St Patrick in a landscape with a group of people and a wolfhound. Patrick wears a reddish robe and a green cloak. With his right hand he holds up a cross. He cradles his crozier in his left elbow; his left hand holds something, possibly a book. His head is turned over his right shoulder to look at the people behind him.
March 17, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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UVA’s Fralin Museum of Art received a rich collection of modern and contemporary Haitian artworks, including pieces by Myrlande Constant, who depicts Haitian history, religion, and daily life through large-scale beaded embroidery of traditional Vodou flags.
Virginia Museum Receives "Transformative" Gift of Haitian Art
Collectors John Fox Sullivan and his late wife Beverly Sullivan gave more than 100 works by renowned 20th-century and contemporary artists to the Fralin Museum.
hyperallergic.com
March 7, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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March 2, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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February 25, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Self-portrait, c. 1830, by #SarahMiriamPeale (American, 1800-85), who died #otd, Feb 4. Held by the Maryland Center for History and Culture, www.mdhistory.org/resources/se... #artherstory #womenartists
Bust-length portrait of a white woman sitting at a slight angle, turning her face toward her right shoulder to gaze at the viewer. She has dark hair piled up in curls on either side of her head. She wears a gold-colored dress or smock and a diaphanous white collar or neckerchief, under a thick, velvety dark blue coat or cloak.
February 4, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Learn more about the sculptor:

Reflections on the Audacious Art Activist and Trailblazer #AugustaSavage
By Sandy Rattley, Audacious Women Productions / Unladylike2020
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Augusta Savage | Audacious Art Activist and Trailblazer
Sandy Rattley presents an illustrated overview of the contributions of sculptor Augusta Savage to American art and culture.
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February 1, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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hyperallergic.com
The “Roman salute,” often cited by fascists, including Hitler, was not an ancient gesture but a modern invention, shaped by art and cinema.
The Revisionist History of the Nazi Salute
Elon Musk’s defenders were quick to claim that his hand motion was actually an ancient “Roman salute” — but that gesture never existed.
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January 26, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Still Life with Rose Branch, Beetle and Bee, 1741, by #RachelRuysch (Dutch, 1664-1750). Held by Kunstmuseum Basel, sammlungonline.kunstmuseumbasel.ch/eMP/eMuseumP...

#womenartists #artherstory #InternationalFlowerDay #flowerday
A small still life painting depicting close up a cut sprig of pink roses, one in full bloom, the other still a bud, sitting on a stone ledge. There are a very few smaller flowers behind the rose, in colors of white, blue, orange and yellow. A bee sits on the fully bloomed rose. To the viewer’s left, a beetle seems to approach the bouquet.
January 19, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Silly kitty.
January 11, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Horace Pippin's Holy Mountain series are signed and dated. The dates align with significant days in WWII. The first in the series dates to June 6, 1944, D-Day. Here is our new video about it:
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Horace Pippin, Holy Mountain, I
YouTube video by Smarthistory
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January 10, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Spend a few minutes with Dame Barbara Hepworth's sculpture, Pelagos, 1946; today is her birthday.

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Dame Barbara Hepworth, Pelagos, 1946, elm and string on oak base, 43 x 46 x 38.5 cm (Tate Britain). Pelagos is the word for “sea” in Greek a reference seen in this sphere of wood that has been opened and threaded is ways that are difficult to describe.
January 10, 2025 at 3:21 PM