University of Minnesota, Morris

Women and Art

Marie-Denise Villers (previously Constance Charpentier, and before that Jacques-Louis David)

Woman Drawing [possible self-portrait?], c.1801, Metropolitan Museum of Art

ARTH 3281

Prof. Julia Dabbs

Office: HFA 5

Office Hours: M/W: 3:30-4:30; T/TH: 3:45-4:30; or by appt. [Fall term 2007]

Email: dabbsj@morris.umn.edu

“One would find any number of superior women throughout the world

if one took the trouble to look for them.”

- Christine de Pizan, from Le Livre de la Cité des Dames, 1405

This seminar will provide an historical survey of the role of women as creators and patrons of the visual arts in Western European and American societies, from antiquity to the present. Artists to be studied include Artemisia Gentileschi, Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, Rosa Bonheur, Mary Cassatt, Georgia O’Keeffe, Frida Kahlo, Judy Chicago, and Faith Ringgold.

Syllabus and outline of classes

*Revised outline of classes:

Mon. Oct. 29: Hosmer, Lewis

Wed. Oct. 31: Lewis; Bonheur

Fri. Nov. 2, Mon. Nov. 5: NO CLASS

Wed. Nov. 7: J. M. Cameron

Fri. Nov. 9: B. Morisot

Mon. Nov. 12: Mary Cassatt

Wed. Nov. 14: Claudel

Slide Review List for Exam 2 *New exam dated: Fri. Nov. 16

Georgia O’Keeffe exhibition webpage (Minneapolis Institute of Arts)

Frida Kahlo exhibition info (Walker Art Center)

Websites of Interest