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Henrietta Shore: Western Progressive Modernist
Henrietta Shore1880-1963Edward Westonca. 1927Collection Center for Creative Photography During the early years of the twentieth century, women modernists who were the most acclaimed artists were judged...
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Sarah Ladd-Pioneering Portland Photographer
By the turn of the twentieth-century, the visual arts became an established part of Pacific Northwest culture. Artists worked and lived there. The wealthy, whose money came from banking, law, timber,...
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Mary Curtis Richardson: The Mary Cassatt of the West
Portrait of Mary Blanche Hubbard1889Oil on canvas Mary Curtis Richardson (1848-1931) was an impressionist painter and suffragette. Late nineteenth-century women used gender to their advantage and...
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Ruth Reeves: Art in Fabric Instead of Paint
Ruth Reevesca. 1947New YorkOver this past year, we have explored painters, sculptors, and photographers. This post, I would like to introduce you to a textile designer who rightfully belongs in the...
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Happy Birthday, Women Out West! Meet Ruth Peabody-Painter, Sculptor, and...
Thanks to all the readers of my blog-the first post was created one year ago on November 22, 2012. This has been an incredible journey of discovery. After I submitted my dissertation I thought, now...
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Margrethe Mather: Modernist Photographer
Edward Weston, Margrethe Mather, ca. 1914, gelatin silver printCollection Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson AZOn March fourth of this year, Photography News wrote this...
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Ila Mae McAfee: Taos Painter
Ila Mae McAfeeA Chain Reaction: Trouble on the TrailOil on Canvasca. N.D. 36 x 48 inches Ila Mae McAfee was born in 1897, in the small ranching community of Sargents, in southwestern Colorado near...
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Culture, Time, and Passion...The Fibres of Art
Calling all Artists and Art Historians! Warnborough College (my Alma mater) is holding its second annual Conference on the Artsin Canterbury, England this summer, beginning on the evening of August 18...
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Donna Noreen Schuster: Interested in Everything
Donna Noreen SchusterIn the Gardenca. N.D.As the daughter of a Milwaukee cigar manufacturer, Donna Schuster had the family resources to study with the best painters in America. She attended the Art...
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Jessiejo Eckford: Dallas Native and Artist of Western Scenes
JessieJo EckfordMosquito Fleet Galvestonca. 1933Woodblock printPainter and woodcut artist Jessiejo Eckford was born November 25, 1895 in Dallas, Texas. Her unusual name is a combination of her...
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Julia Bracken Wendt: Sculptor with Feminist Sensibilities
1871-1942Notable American sculptor, Julia Bracken Wendt, was one of the few female artists ranked equally with their male counterparts during the first two decades of the Twentieth Century. Wendt was...
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Ruth Armer: From the Representational to the Abstract
Ruth ArmerCalifornia Autumnca. n.d.             oil on canvas        30 1/8 in. x 38 1/8 inSFMOMARuth Armer was a painter, lithographer and teacher, whose work style ranged from her early, more...
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"I MUST paint...it's a disease" Minerva Kohlhepp Teichert
Minerva Kolhepp TeichertWhen she wrote her memoirs in the late 1940s, painter Minerva Kohlhepp Teichert recalled the moment when her future as a Western woman artist became clear. She attended a...
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Abby Williams Hill: Tacoma Painter and a Woman before her Time
Abby Williams Hillca. 1870sI am so inspired by the story of Abby Rhoda Williams Hill (1861–1943) and I hope you are as well. Abby was a painter and an activist with a love of travel and learning. Her...
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Emma Belle Freeman: Early Photographer of Native Ameicans
Emma Belle Richart Freeman1880-1928Self-Portraitca. 1913Eureka, CaliforniaLiving in northern California in the first decade of the Twentieth Century, Emma B. Freeman existed under a dual handicap - she...
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Helen Hyde: American Artist, Asian Identity
Helen Hyde1868-1919Helen Hyde embodies the art movement known as japonism: the artistic, historic, and ethnographic study of Japanese art. Hyde was raised in San Francisco and began her art education...
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Elizabeth Ayer: Pioneer Seattle Architect
Elizabeth Ayerca. 1939Courtesy University of Washington, Special CollectionsOn this journey to bring to your attention the hundreds of female artists that have been largely forgotten, or never known by...
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Anna Belle Crocker: Artist and Director of the Portland Art Museum
AnnaBelleCrockerSelf Portraitca. 1926Oil on panelPortland Art MuseumWhile the first non-native, professional artists were men who arrived in the Pacific Northwest to accompany geographic surveys such...
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Cor de Gravere: Dutch Portraitist and Landscape Painter
Cor de Gravere1877-1955A tenacious woman who was able to overcome almost unimaginable adversity and prevailed on her own terms, Cornelia de Gavere was born in Battavia, Java, East Indies in 1877. She...
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What I did on my Summer Vacation
If you would be so kind as to indulge me, I would like to share some of the photographs I took on my magical trip to Italy, Norway, and England this past month. I am, after all, a female...
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