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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.
Anna Ruysch Still Life of Flowers Note Card | Art from a Private Collection https://etsy.me/3B5oDGM via @Etsy
500 years ago Plautilla Nelli was born. Incredible story of the first Renaissance painter by Emma Sedini for #artribune 500 anni fa nasceva Plautilla Nelli. Storia incredibile della prima pittrice del Rinascimento https://lnkd.in/e9DCg5dn #artribune via Artribune
#Amaryllis Holiday Card | Interior text, "Season's Greetings" https://etsy.me/4e31h37 via Etsy Original artwork held at @artsmia, https://lnkd.in/e47d86ys
'Lee Krasner: Geometries of Expression' Review: A Painter's Patterns in Ogunquit Maine's Ogunquit Museum focuses on the artist's exploratory early career as well as works by her contemporaries, offering an intriguing prehistory of Abstract Expressionism. by Judith H. Dobrzynski https://lnkd.in/eKFT3BjP
9 - 27 September Colnaghi Elliott Master Drawings presents Picturing the Artist, Part II https://lnkd.in/eU-spJYB Ranging from the C19th-C20th, all of the works presented are by #womenartists, and all represent women artists. #artherstory
I love a flower!, c. 1833, by #SarahMappsDouglass (American, 1806-82), who was born #otd, Sept 9. From the Amy Matilda Cassey Album, The Library Company of Philadelphia, https://lnkd.in/eV4-sGeq #artherstory #womenartists Learn more about the artist in “Visual Feasts: The Art of Sarah Mapps Douglass,” by Erika Piola, The Library Company of Philadelphia: https://lnkd.in/erHZGSbr
Maria Sibylla Merian The Rocu Tree Note Card | Art Courtesy of the Getty’s Open Content Program https://etsy.me/3TpAyWb via Etsy
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1wHey Ed, Be sure to check out the legendary Margit Larsen, a San Francisco design pioneer of the 1950s and 1960s.