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Elizabeth Thompson. Elizabeth Southerden Thompson (3 November 1846 – 2 October 1933), later known as Lady Butler, [1] was a British painter who specialised in painting scenes from British military campaigns and battles, including the Crimean War and the Napoleonic Wars. Her notable works include The Roll Call (purchased by Queen Victoria ...
The absence of women from the canon of Western art has been a subject of inquiry and reconsideration since the early 1970s. Linda Nochlin's influential 1971 essay, "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?", examined the social and institutional barriers that blocked most women from entering artistic professions throughout history, prompted a new focus on women artists, their art and ...
Margaret Rose Preston (29 April 1875 – 28 May 1963) was an Australian painter and printmaker who is regarded as one of Australia's leading modernists of the early 20th century.
Bob Thompson (June 26, 1937 – May 30, 1966) [1] was an African-American figurative painter known for his bold and colorful canvases, whose compositions were influenced by the Old Masters. His art has also been described as synthesizing Baroque and Renaissance masterpieces with the jazz -influenced Abstract Expressionist movement.
Around 2001, Cree artist Kent Monkman began recreating a series of paintings by Tom Thomson and Group of Seven artists such as Lawren S. Harris, including Thomson’s The Jack Pine (1916–17) and Harris’s North Shore, Lake Superior (1926). To counter the absence of Indigenous people in these representations of the Canadian landscape, Monkman ...
A. George Edward Anderson, photographer; Paige Crosland Anderson, painter; B. Pat Bagley, editorial cartoonist and illustrator; Earl W. Bascom, sculptor; Milo ...
Elizabeth Thompson (born 1954 in New York City, died 2023) was an American painter whose works have been described by writer and art historian Bonnie Clearwater as "a call to action for the reclamation of Paradise ". She has painted the Florida Everglades as "de-peopled visions of a primordial Eden ."
The purpose of the book was to prove wrong the statement that "the achievements of women painters have been second-rate." The book includes well over 300 images of paintings by over 200 painters, most of whom were born in the 19th century and won medals at various international exhibitions. The book is a useful reference work for anyone ...