Autoportrait Day 367~ Nasta Rojc

A random survey of self-portraits created by women through the centuries

Croatian painter Nasta Rojc (1883-1964)

1. Self-Portrait in a Hunting Suit, 1912 / Oil on canvas / National Museum of Modern Art, Zagreb, Croatia

2. Self-Portrait, 1915 / Pastel on canvas / City Museum of Bjelovar, Croatia

3. Equestrian Self-Portrait, 1922 / Oil on canvas / National Museum of Modern Art, Zagreb, Croatia

4. Self-Portrait in a White Shirt, 1925 / Oil on canvas / Museum of the City of Zagreb, Croatia

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Anne Harriet Fish

British cartoonist and illustrator Anne Harriet Fish (1890-1964)

Image from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Harriet_Fish

“Fish is known as an arch chronicler of the Jazz Age. A caricaturist and satirist, she first attracted notice in England, notably in the pages of Punch and The Tatler…Fish created her own character, Eve, whose exploits in the Tatler were captured in compilations called the Book of Eve”
https://www.dbdowd.com/illustration-history/2015/11/13/anne-harriet-fish

The First Eve Book, 1916 / 64 pages, B&W illustrations / Rooke Books PBFA, UK
“Her illustrations for the “Letters of Eve” in The Tatler spawned films, theatre and three books.” ~Wikipedia

Abdulla Cigarettes Advertisement, 1921 / Published in “La Vie Parisienne” & “Punch”

Vanity Fair Cover Featuring Two Bathing Beauties, 1923 / Painting

Assorted characters at art opening, c.1925 / Pen and ink / Illustration for Vanity Fair

Small Double Footmen Hubley Doorstop, 1920s / Cast iron / Signed “©Fish”
Fish created designs for Hubley, the cast iron manufacturing company, and for Fulper Pottery

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Go Fish! https://bawdybisques.blogspot.com/2019/04/go-fish.html
Anne Harriet Fish (1890-1964)~
https://www.doorstops.com/artist/fish.html
Artist Spotlight: A.H. Fish~
https://condenaststore.wordpress.com/2010/03/10/a-h-fish/

Autoportrait Day 366~ Trina Robbins

A random survey of self-portraits created by women through the centuries

Comic artist and author Trina Robbins (born 1938)

1. Self-portrait sketch, c.1973 / Graphite and ink / Morse’s Funnies Version 3

2. Self-portrait button, 1975 / Metal with clear celluloid cover / Various collections

3. Back cover of Trina’s Women, 1976 / 36-page one-issue comic / Various collections

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Designer Anna Maria Garthwaite

Anna Maria Garthwaite (1688-1763) was an English textile designer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Maria_Garthwaite

Image from https://eastendwomensmuseum.org/blog/2020/9/23/anna-maria-garthwaite

In general, there is often scant surviving evidence for most textile artisans of the eighteenth century. One important exception, however, is Anna Maria Garthwaite, a designer who was based in London’s fashionable weaving district, Spitalfields. Unlike many women artists of the eighteenth century, Garthwaite was both highly regarded in her lifetime and remains well known today by modern historians who study historic dress and textiles.

Quote from The Minneapolis Institute of Art
https://collections.artsmia.org/art/143568/textile-anna-maria-garthwaite

Design for a woven silk, 1747 / Watercolor on paper / Victoria & Albert Museum, UK
↓ A waistcoat woven from this design is in the Costume Institute of The Met ↓

Waistcoat, 1747 / Silk, wool, metallic / Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC

Silk damask dress, c.1775 / Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, NYC

Design for a woven silk, 1748-1749 / Watercolor on paper / Victoria & Albert Museum, UK

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Further reading:
https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/blue-plaques/anna-maria-garthwaite/
https://womeninspire.co.uk/blog/anna-maria-garthwaite-a-pioneer-in-british-design
https://twonerdyhistorygirls.blogspot.com/2010/05/intrepid-ladies-anna-maria-garthwaite.html

Autoportrait Day 364~ Carrie Mae Weems

A random survey of self-portraits created by women through the centuries

Contemporary American artist Carrie Mae Weems (born 1953)

1. First Self Portrait, 1975 / Image from Jack Shainman Gallery

2. Portrait of Myself as an Intellectual Revolutionary, 1988 /Image from Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC

3. Untitled (Woman Playing Solitaire) / Image from Kitchen Table Series

4. In the Mountains of Santiago de Cuba (from Dreaming in Cuba), 2002 / Image from Guggenheim Museum, NYC

5. I Looked and Looked and Failed to See What so Terrified You, 2003 / Image from the Louisiana Project series

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How Carrie Mae Weems sees herself~
https://i-d.vice.com/en/article/epvbq7/how-carrie-mae-weems-sees-herself

Designer Zuzana Licko

Zuzana Licko (born 1961) is an American type designer and visual artist
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zuzana_Licko

Image from No Web Without Women~
https://nowebwithoutwomen.com/

In 1984, the Apple Macintosh computer was introduced, ushering in a new era of digital type design.

That same year, Rudy VanderLans and Zuzana Licko founded Emigre Graphics in San Francisco. Soon, this typeface foundry and its magazine, Emigre, became the late 20th century’s wellspring of experimental digital typography and graphic design.

Quote from the web site Poster House
https://posterhouse.org/exhibition/the-revolution-will-be-digitized-typefaces-from-emigre-fuse/

Emigre digital font catalogue, 1986 / San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA

Emigre 4, The Magazine That Ignores Boundaries, 1986 / Museum of Modern Art, NYC

Mrs Eaves typeface, designed by Zuzana Licko / Emigre digital type foundry, Berkeley, CA

Zuzana Licko’s Ceramic vases / Jacquard Weavings / Terra Cotta Garden Cones Sculptures
These images from  https://www.zuzanalicko.com/vases.php
https://ksmallgallery.com/blogs/exhibits/zuzana-licko-9-jacquard-weavings
https://www.wescover.com/p/terra-cotta-garden-cones-sculpture-by-zuzana-licko–PS1NMxFZXO

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Further reading:
https://www.eyemagazine.com/feature/article/reputations-zuzana-licko
https://www.printmag.com/daily-heller/the-daily-heller-vanderlans-licko-return-to-their-bitmap-roots/

Autoportrait Day 361~ Maria Lassnig

A random survey of self-portraits created by women through the centuries

Austrian painter Maria Lassnig (1919-2014)

1. Self-Portrait, 1942 (detail) / Oil on canvas / Friedrich Petzel, New York

2. Expressive Self-Portrait, 1945 / Oil, charcoal on fiberboard / Maria Lassnig Foundation

3. Self-Portrait/Abstract Head, 1956 / Oil on Canvas / Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria

4. Self-Portrait as Animal, 1963 / Oil on canvas / Maria Lassnig Foundation

5. Self-Portrait with Stick, 1971/ Oil, charcoal on canvas / Maria Lassnig Foundation

6. Transparent Self-Portrait, 1987 / Oil on canvas / Museum of Modern Art, NYC

7. Scientific Self-Portrait, 1994 / Graphite pencil on wove paper / Morgan Library & Museum, NYC

8. Self-Portrait with Rabbit, 2003 / Oil on Canvas / Hauser & Wirth, NYC

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