Marvelous Sugar Baby, by #KaraWalker. A monumental public installation at the Domino Sugar Factory in Brooklyn, it refers to the history of sugar "from the cane fields to the kitchen" and to the Egyptian Sphinx as a Southern Mammy.
#WomensHistoryMonth #WomenSculptors
Nathanial Hawthorne called the group of women expat sculptors in Rome during the 19th c. the "white marmorean flock," referring to the marble they used. Here is #HarrietHosmer, next to her monumental statue of Thomas Hart Benton.
#Neoclassicism #WomenSculptors
A photo of a cast bronze statue of a slender young boy seated on a tree stump. The viewer sees him from the side - only his left leg is visible. His left shoulder is somewhat lifted and he turns his face to gaze over it.
Boy on a Stump, 1940, by #AugustaSavage (American, 1892-1962), who was born Feb 29. Held by Driskell Center, University of Maryland, driskellcenter.pastperfectonline.com/webobject/96... #artherstory #womenartists #womensculptors
Learn more about Vinnie Ream in this #ArtHerstory guest post -
Emma Stebbins, Anne Whitney and Vinnie Ream: American Women Sculptors of the Nineteenth Century
by Maria Ausherman
artherstory.net/emma-stebbin...
#womenartists #womensculptors
A statue in white marble of two sleeping cherubs or toddlers, one leaning backward upon the other behind him/her, with flowers.
Night / Two Sleeping Infants, 1870, by #MaryEdmoniaLewis (American, 1844-1907), who was born on or around this day, July 4. Private collection; source, facebook.com/female.artis... #womenartists #artherstory #EdmoniaLewis #womensculptors
Circular clay-colored mold with bust portraits of three people, one bearded man in the top center and two women, one on each side of the man, slightly lower in the circle. In the very center of the object, under the man’s necktie, is a decorative torch. There is a rough perimeter around the plaque, in which the artist’s last name appears in all caps at lower right. According to the website, “Commissioned for the William J. Walls Heritage Hall at Livingstone College, Salisbury, NC, the Crusaders for Freedom depicts three notable members of Bishop Walls' historic abolitionist church, the Thomas Memorial AME Zion in Watertown, NY-- Sojourner Truth (c. 1797-1883), Frederick Douglas (c. 1817-1895), Harriet Tubman (c. 1822-1913). Fuller received an honorary Doctor of Letters from the Historically Black College and University (HBCU) for her tondo relief, later cast in bronze.” The text at the bottom - with the title and names of the people featured - is backwards, so that it would appear conventionally on the bronze version that the mold was used to make.
Mold / tondo relief for Crusaders for Freedom - Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglas, Harriet Tubman, 1962, by #MetaVauxWarrickFuller (American, 1877-1968). On view at Danforth Art Museum; source, omeka.flo.org/fsu/s/Meta-V...
#Juneteenth #womenartists #artherstory #womensculptors #HappyJuneteenth
A sculpture in white marble of a man and woman. The man stands with his right leg straight, left leg slightly bent, with the foot on a ball from a ball and chain. His left arm is raised, elbow bent, fist just over head height; around it is wrapped a piece of broken chain. His right arm reaches down to the right shoulder of the woman kneeling on one knee next to his right leg. She gazed out and upward; her hands are clasped at her chin as though in prayer or thanksgiving.
Forever Free, 1867, by #MaryEdmoniaLewis (American, 1844-1907). Held at Howard University Gallery of Art; source, arthistoryproject.com/locations/un...
#womenartists #artherstory #EdmoniaLewis #Juneteenth #womensculptors #emancipation
Born
Kiki Smith, 2002
“Some people think or expect that you should make the same kinds of art forever because it creates a convenient narrative... I want my work to embody my inherent contradictions.”
#sculpture #womensculptors #modenart #womenartists #arthistory
Dawn's Wedding Chapel II
Louise Nevelson, 1959
Part of a larger “environment”, the boxes and objects scavenged from NYC streets become “a white wedding cake, a wedding mirror. . .a pillow. . .a kind of fulfillment, a transition to marriage with the world.”
#womenartists #womensculptors #arthistory
Contingent
Eva Hesse, 1968
“I think art is a total thing. A total person giving a contribution. It is an essence, a soul.. In my inner soul art and life are inseparable.”
#postminimalism #sculpture #womensculptors #womenartists #arthistory
Imogen Cunningham, #BOTD in 1883 photographed the artistic luminaries of her day, like wire-sculptor Ruth Asawa. She also snapped a still-life of one of her works--Eggs in a Basket.
(Asawa is having a retrospective at SFMOMA through Sept. 2.)
#WomenPhotographers #WomenSculptors
A bust in white marble on a pedestal of a young girl.
Portrait of a Girl (Marianna Dorothea Golicyn), 1765-1780, attr to #MarieAnneCollot (French, 1748-1821), who died #otd, Feb 24. Held at the @rijksmuseum.bsky.social, id.rijksmuseum.nl/20036182 #womenartists #womensculptors #artherstory
A jeweled circular pendant with blue stones and gold and green enamel, with a pearl dangling from the bottom. A gold post through the center holds in place a carved cherry stone.
Carved Cherry Stone Pendant, 1510-30, by #ProperziaDeRossi (Italian, c. 1490–1530), who died around this day, Feb 20. Held at Museo degli Argenti, Uffizi Galleries; source,
www.facebook.com/female.artis...
#womensculptors #womenartists #artherstory #renaissancewomenartists #italianwomenartists
I can’t wait to make more sculptures and add to my body of work!
#goblincoreaesthetic #womensculptors #naturecore #smallbusinessowner #macabre
A white marble bust of President Abraham Lincoln. This view shows him from the side, gazing to the viewer's right.
ust of #AbrahamLincoln, 1871, by #EdmoniaLewis (American, 1844-1907). Held by the San Jose Library, www.sjpl.org/archival_pos...
#womenartists #artherstory #womensculptors #LincolnsBirthday #BlackHistoryMonth
A photo of a bust of the head and neck of a woman, shaped in tannish-colored clay.
Self-portrait, n.d., by #MetaVauxWarrickFuller (American, 1877-1968) who was born #otd, Jun 9. Held by the Danforth Art Museum, danforth.framingham.edu/exhibition/m.... Read about the artist in The Magazine Antiques, danforth.framingham.edu/wp-content/u... #artherstory #womenartists #womensculptors
New book announcement!
Ruth Asawa: An Artist Takes Shape
by Sam Nakahira
shop.getty.edu/products/rut...
Getty Publications, 2024
#newbooksaboutwomenartists #womensculptors #womenartists #artherstory
There is a new guest post on the #ArtHerstory blog!
Reflections on the Audacious Art Activist and Trailblazer #AugustaSavage
By Sandy Rattley, Audacious Women Productions
artherstory.net/reflections-...
#womenartists #womensculptors
Musician & Dancer, c. 1939, by #AugustaSavage (American, 1892-1962), who was born #otd, Feb 29. Held by
the Art Institute of Chicago, artic.edu/artworks/260... #artherstory #womenartists #womensculptors
California-born sculptor Paige Bradley (b.1974)trained at Pepperdine University, Malibu, California & Florence, Italy, Florence Academy & PAAcadofFA. #womensculptors #bronze
