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June 2~ Pride Month

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Nathalie Micas and Rosa Bonheur and Anna Klumpke

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The most popular artist of nineteenth-century France, Rosa Bonheur was also one of the first renowned painters of animals and the first woman awarded the Grand Cross by the French Legion of Honor. A professional artist with a successful career, Bonheur lived in two consecutive committed relationships with women.~ringlingdocents.org

Rosa Bonheur lived for over forty years with her childhood friend Nathalie Micas (1824-1889.) In the final year of her life she became close with [painter] Anna Klumpke (1856-1942), the author of her “autobiography.” Bonheur, Micas, and Klumpke are buried together at Père Lachaise Cemetery. ~findagrave.com

 

Normandy landscape with grazing sheep by Nathalie Micas
1874 / Oil on canvas / Private collection

 

 

 

 

 

The Horse Fair by Nathalie Micas (possibly) and Rosa Bonheur
1855 / Oil on canvas / The National Gallery, London, UK

Rosa Bonheur’s original version of The Horse Fair (now in the The Met in NY) was four times the size of the National Gallery picture, painted when the work of women artists was largely disregarded by critics. It caused a sensation at the 1853 Paris Salon, toured Britain and the US and brought Bonheur international fame. This smaller autograph version was painted to facilitate the making of prints for sale during the tour. ~The Horse Fair, The National Gallery

Rosa Bonheur by Anna Klumpke
1898 / Oil on canvas / Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, NY
The Portrait That Forged a “Divine Marriage” Between Two 19th-Century Women Painters~
https://hyperallergic.com/437985/the-portrait-that-forged-a-divine-marriage-between-two-19th-century-women-painters/

June 1~ Pride Month

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Ellen Day Hale and Gabrielle D. Clements

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In 1884, Clements traveled abroad to Paris to study at the Academie Julian where she was joined in 1885 by fellow painter and future lifelong companion Ellen Day Hale…
Clements and Hale frequently traveled abroad, visiting France, Italy, Egypt, Syria, and Palestine, and spent summers at “The Thickets,” the house they purchased in the artists’ colony at Folly Cove.
~Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington, D.C

Portrait of a woman, said to be Gabrielle de Veaux Clements, by Ellen Day Hale (seen in photo above, left)
1883 / Pencil, charcoal and white chalk on paper / High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Avenue Bridge, Baltimore by Gabrielle de Veaux Clements (seen in photo above, right)
1927 / Etching on paper / Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C

National Photography Month~ Day 31

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The False Hellebore by Imogen Cunningham

1926 / Gelatin silver print / 8 3/4″x9″ / Imogen Cunningham Archives, Imogen Cunningham Trust, Berkeley, CA

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In 1932, with this unsentimental, straightforward approach in mind, Cunningham became one of the co-founders of the Group f/64, which aimed to “define photography as an art form by a simple and direct presentation through purely photographic methods”. ~Lumière On Line

National Photography Month~ Day 30

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Brother William of the Shaker Settlement, Mount Lebanon, NY
by Doris Ulmann

c.1925-1927 / Platinum print / 8 1/16″x6″
Various collections including The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA

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Her photographs helped change the way we perceive and therefore represent the people she photographed, from quaint, picturesque peasants to individuals with dignity and purpose in the modern world. ~Prints & Photographs Reading Room, LOC

National Pet Month~ Day 30

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Early Carolina Morning by Romare Bearden

1978 / Collage on board / 29″x41″ / Private collection

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MoMA’s page says there are “approx. four unique variants” of this work.
https://www.moma.org/collection/works/91517
Looking around the internet, I found collagraphs, serigraphs, and lithographic editions on this subject.
http://www.artnet.com/artists/romare-bearden/early-carolina-morning-a-v8rsI5X9GbaqXOBBHG1Tcw2
https://heritagesart.com/products/early-carolina-morning

Romare Bearden and His Traveling Cats~
https://www.aaa.si.edu/blog/2017/06/romare-bearden-and-his-traveling-cats

National Photography Month~ Day 29

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The Grape-Vine Swing by Mary Morgan Keipp

c.1900-1904 / Platinum print / Image: 8 1/4″x6 1/4″ / Smithsonian American Art Museum, DC

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Because her photographic activity was not reported in Selma newspapers and was completely unknown outside her family at her death, her images were apparently not intended to influence Alabamians’ ideas about race and culture. Instead, they are most appropriately viewed as Keipp’s personal appreciation of rural and small-town Alabama life and a means of artistic and perhaps social discovery.
~Encyclopedia of Alabama

National Pet Month~ Day 29

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Portrait of Colonel Jack Warner by Salvador Dalí

1951 / Oil on canvas / 42 1/5″x50 3/5″ / Syracuse University Art Collection, Syracuse, NY

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Barbara Warner Howard: Mother loved that portrait so much that she wanted him to do one of my father. Of course my father was very impatient and I doubt if he sat for it much. He sent photographs for Dalí to work from. At the time we had a giant schnauzer named Dragon, and the dog came out more lifelike in the portrait than my father. ~Google Books

National Photography Month~ Day 28

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French WWI soldiers warm themselves around a fire behind the lines in Lorraine
by Harriet Chalmers Adams

1917 / Digital image found online / National Geographic Image Collection, DC

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[Harriet Chalmers Adams] traversed Asia and attended Haile Selassie’s coronation as emperor of Ethiopia. During World War I, she was the first female journalist allowed to photograph the French trenches, where she stayed for months. ~nationalgeographic.co.uk