Prof. Dabbs
WOMEN SCULPTORS of the 18th
and 19TH CENTURIES:
[added]
Patience Wright
(1725-86):
William Pitt, 1779
[don’t have
to know the Portrait Engraving of
Patience Wright]
Harriet Hosmer (1830-1908):
Puck, 1856
Beatrice
Cenci, 1857
Compared to Maderno,
St. Cecilia, 1600
[won’t have to ID this one, just know the context behind this comparison]
Zenobia
in Chains, 1859
[If interested: Hosmer’s article in
which she defends her working methods is “The
Process of Sculpture” (Atlantic
Monthly, Dec. 1864;
this link may only work on-campus; otherwise, can find via
Google)
Terms/Names: Neo-classicism; Charlotte Cushman
Edmonia Lewis (1844? - 1911): [possible
reading response to essay by K. Buick, “The Ideal Works of Edmonia
Lewis,” on e-res]
. 31)
Bust of Colonel Robt. Gould Shaw, 1866 [not finding a good image on the web, so won’t see on the
exam]
Forever
Free, 1867
The Old Indian Arrowmaker and His Daughter, 1872
[if interested: here is a useful map/listing
of Lewis’ works]
Camille Claudel (1864-1943):
Bust of
Rodin, c. 1885 [won’t have to know for exam]
Abandonment, [or, Sakountala]
1883 [a number
of Claudel’s works are illustrated at this site]
Compared to Rodin, Eternal
Springtime
The
Waltz, 1891-1905
Here’s a view (different version
it appears) from
the back
The
Wave, 1897-1903
Compared to Hokusai, The
Great Wave, c.1831
Deep
Thought, 1905 [this is a slightly different version than what I showed
in class; am not finding on the web otherwise]
Maturity,
1907
Terms: onyx
*excellent
website: Association Camille Claudel - this is mostly in French, but extensive
illustrations and info!)
*more
on Claudel
& Rodin from the Musée Rodin (Paris)
There is also a 2013 motion picture, “Camille Claudel 1915” (in
French); here
is a review
by Roger Ebert.
Rosa Bonheur
Portrait
of Rosa Bonheur, by Anna Klumpke, 1898
Ploughing
in the Nivernais, 1848
The Horse Fair,
1855
Terms: Realism; Romanticism; animalier
Julia Margaret Cameron
*link to essay for possible reading
response (“Milkmaid
Madonnas” by Phyllis Hose)
Angel
of the Nativity, 1867
Resting
in Hope, 1866
Parting
of Sir Lancelot and Queen Guinevere, 1874
Iago,
1867
Sir John Herschel,
1867
Ellen
Terry at Age 16 (Sadness), 1864
Julia
Jackson, 1867
[someone asked if
JMC did a photo of Charles
Darwin, and yes she did - really interesting!]
For further info on JMC and her technique,
check this website [if you are wanting
additional background]
Intro to Impressionism:
[just know for general background, representations of women by male
artists]
Monet, Women
in a Garden, 1866 [won’t have to ID]
Renoir, The
Swing, 1876 [won’t
have to ID]
Berthe Morisot (1841-95):
Study: At Water’s Edge, 1864
View
from La Trocadero, 1871 this website has some
additional info on the work
Mother and
Sister of the Artist, 1870
The
Cradle, 1872
Wet Nurse
Feeding Julie Manet,
1880
The Artist’s
Daughter and Her Nanny, c.1884 [at the MIA]
[just saw
very briefly, won’t have to know] Self-portrait,
c.1885
[also briefly
saw Manet’s Repose
– portrait of B. Morisot, also won’t be asked to know]
If
interested, more Morisot images can be found at http://www.arthistory.cc/auth2/morisot/
Terms: plein air painting
(sometimes seen as en plein air)
Mary Cassatt (1845-1926): [possible reading response to essay by N. Broude, “Mary Cassatt: Modern Woman
Or the Cult of True Womanhood?” on
e-reserve]
Maternal
Kiss, 1880 [useful
for MC’s interest in pastel, and mother/child theme]
Lydia
Reading in a Garden, 1878
Reading Le Figaro, 1878
Lydia
in a Loge, 1879
Woman in Black at
the Opera,
1880
Driving, 1881
[didn’t see, won’t
have to know: A
Cup of Tea, 1890]
May Alcott Nieriker (1840-1879): no images to know,
but do know her importance for American women/artists/art history,
and read her article, “A Letter from an Art Student in
London,” in your coursepack.
[Chadwick, Women, Art & Society includes some background; and here is a link
to my
latest article, “Empowering American
Women
Artists: The Travel Writings of May
Alcott Nieriker” ]
20th
Century:
Georgia O’Keeffe [possible reading response to the essay by A. Chave,
“O”keeffe and the Masculine Gaze” on e-res]
[added] Light
Coming on the Plains, 1917 [watercolor]
Abstraction
IX, 1916
Black
Hollyhock, Blue Larkspur, 1928 (Fig. 179)
Two Calla
Lilies,
1928
Jack-in-the
Pulpit,
1930
City
Night,
1926
Red
& Yellow Cliffs, 1940
Pelvis III, 1944
Sky Above Clouds, 1963-65
for additional
background: Website for Georgia
O’Keeffe museum (Santa Fe, NM)
Names/terms:
Alfred Stieglitz;
Precisionism
Kathe Kollwitz:
Self-portrait
in Profile Facing Left, Drawing (1933)
Raped [from the Peasants’ War series], 1907
Woman
with Dead Child,
1903
Never
Again War,
1924
Municipal
Shelter,
1926
Death
& the Mother,
1934
Tower
of Mothers,
1937-38 (the
dimensions for a version at the Baltimore Museum of Art are 11 x 11.5 x 10”; I
remember seeing a similar sized one at another museum)
Terms: lithograph; Expressionism
Women & Quiltmaking: for this topic read the P. Mainardi essay on “Quilts: The Great American Art” (on e-reserve);
[dropped] Harriet Powers, Bible
Quilt, 1898
Faith
Ringgold, Dancing at the Louvre,
1991
*Take-home essay question for Exam #3 (turn in
at time of exam; approx. 2 pages, double-spaced; or you
can write at the time of the exam, if you wish)
How were women artists able to over obstacles
and break new ground in the art world, as seen in the
last third
of the course? Please discuss in
relation to the lives and works of 3
artists (specificity here will
make for a
stronger essay).
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