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Nell Brinkley was born on this day, September 5, in 1886 (or 1888). The creator of the “Brinkley Girl” and the “Queen of Comics” was a household name. She isn’t as well-known today as she should be because, as Trina Robbins said, “Men wrote the histories”.

Sheila Beckett was born on this day, September 5, in 1914. She was the first woman to join the all-male Charles Cooper Studio in 1942. When she was one hundred years old, Beckett “went digital”—using Photoshop to complete illustrations for a Golden Book.

How a little-known 17th-century female scientist changed our understanding of insects #MariaSibyllaMerian’s beautiful and disturbing illustrations ... will be on show at Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum by Jennifer Rankin for The Guardian https://lnkd.in/diYxCKJ7

CFP: Proposed Edited Volume: “Women Makers of the Global Early Modern World: Art, Patronage, Collecting, and the Courts,” eds. Tanja L. Jones and Doris Sung Due Date: October 1, 2024 The volume editors seek proposals for chapters in a proposed edited volume dedicated to the topic “Women Makers of the Global Early Modern World: Art, Patronage, Collecting, and the Courts.” The volume is intended to extend and expand knowledge of visual material production by and for early modern women – particularly those associated with the courts – on a global scale. While numerous conferences, symposia, and resulting publications in the past several decades have addressed women as producers, consumers, and subjects of European art during the early modern period (c. 1400-1800), less consideration has been given to women’s roles in the courts – particularly as informed by the steadily increasing cross-cultural interactions (i.e. between Europe and Asia, the Americas, Africa, etc.) that characterized the period. This volume aims to address this lacuna whilst simultaneously de-canonizing the traditional Euro-centric model of study in analyses of women’s cultural production, presentation, and consumption surrounding courts and empires (broadly defined as institutions associated with ruling power). The goal is to encourage a more equitable view of early modern women’s experiences of and with art globally, across traditionally held national and continental boundaries. The volume editors are particularly interested in paper submissions that address early modern (court) women’s roles in the movement, collecting, or production of visual and material culture. Especially those that consider manifestations of cross-cultural connections and/or invite comparative perspectives within/between Africa, the Americas, and Asia – be those with Europeans or not – c. 1400-1800. By October 1, 2024, please submit (in a single PDF): paper title, 250-word (maximum) abstract, 5 keywords, and a CV (including name, institutional affiliation – if applicable, title, and email) to Tanja Jones (tljones10@ua.edu) and Doris Sung (dhsung@ua.edu).

Rachel Ruysch Note Card Wallet | 8 cards and envelopes https://etsy.me/4dYRHOA via Etsy

This month - on Sept 20 - Koller Auctions offers (at least) two works by early modern #womenartists. The first is (left) Saint Catherine of Alexandria, c 1641/42, by #GiovannaGarzoni https://lnkd.in/e7wgXAnc The sale price range estimate is CHF 15,000-20,000 and (right) Still Life with a Peregrine Falcon and Birds, C17th, by #ClaraPeeters https://lnkd.in/ejitUEYx The sale price range estimate is CHF 300,000-500,000 #artherstory

To Each His Own, or Everyone His Fancy, 1655, by #MichaelinaWautier (So. Netherlands, 1617-1689), who was baptized #otd, Sept 2. Held by The Phoebus Foundation; source, https://lnkd.in/eSaWeCSb This painting is on display in the temporary exhibition "Saints, Sinners, Lovers & Fools: 300 Years of Flemish Masterworks," currently on at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, https://lnkd.in/etu8WN6G #artherstory #womenartists #flemishwomenartists #baroquewomenartists #17thcenturywomenartists

Foliage, Flowers and Seed-Vessels of Cotton and Fruit of Star Apple, Jamaica, c. 1872, by #MarianneNorth (English, 1830-1890), who died #otd, Aug 30. Held at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; source, Art UK, https://lnkd.in/eDRki5kx There’s a lavishly illustrated new book about the artist from Lund Humphries: Marianne North: A Victorian Botanical Painter for the 21st Century, by Lynne Howarth-Gladston, https://lnkd.in/e-v_jmRT The book is also available from Kew: https://lnkd.in/eUt2rg-g #womenartists #artherstory #hernaturalhistory

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The Rijksmuseum has acquired a first edition of Maria Sibylla Merian’s Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium, her illustrated natural history of Suriname. Published in 1705, it is Merian’s masterpiece and a high point of Dutch book production in the 18th century. German-born artist and naturalist Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) had an exceptional eye for the beauty of insects, which she captured in detailed drawings. She was the first person to record the transformation of the caterpillar into a butterfly in its natural habitat. ℹ️ Read more: https://lnkd.in/eRkYKUbZ   Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium has been acquired with support from the VriendenLoterij and through the Rijksmuseum Fonds: the Women of the Rijksmuseum Fund, the Estate of S.L.R. Zimmerman-Taylor, the Joost and Carin Scholten Fonds and M.C.E. Aarts.