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Sears (1830-1931) was only 17 when she had the idea for this quilt. She mailed diamonds of white silk to every significant person she could think of or read about, requesting they be autographed and mailed back. Most people did.
Sears' family was wealthy, and it's said she got Lincoln's autograph in person, and danced with him at his inauguration.
There's writers like Hawthorne, Dickens, Emerson, Irving, Longfellow, Julia Ward Howe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and a number of scientists, politicians (with eight Presidents!), artists, educators, Civil War heroes, and clergy. It took her 11 years to complete the quilt, which has 360 signatures in all, and a total of 1,840 patches of cloth. The quilt was written about in national magazines of the time, and is now a museum piece.
Sears did other quilts, but nothing on the same level as this, a document of its time.
#Caturday at the Baltimore Museum of Art:
Marguerite Gérard (French, 1761-1837)
Motherhood, c. 1795-1800
Oil on wood panel
on display at the “Making Her Mark: A History of #WomenArtists in Europe, 1400-1800” exhibition #CatsInArt
Angelica Kauffmann (Swiss, 1741-1807)
Telemachus Returning to Penelope, c. 1771
Oil on canvas
on display at the “Making Her Mark: A History of #WomenArtists in Europe, 1400-1800” exhibition at Baltimore Museum of Art #DogsInArt
Pet #squirrel alert! 🐿️
Louise Adéone Drölling (French, 1797–1831)
Interior with Young Woman Tracing a Flower, c.1820–22
Oil on canvas
on display at the “Making Her Mark: A History of #WomenArtists in Europe, 1400-1800” exhibition at Baltimore Museum of Art
Janoszanka (1889-1952) was a Polish painter, although remembered today mostly as being the model and muse for another artist, Jacek Malczewski. Her solo output in oils is mostly undistinguished still lifes and florals, but it's her few glass paintings that really stand out in their use of color.
Here we have a mixture of folk art influences with the Young Poland movement and maybe some surrealism in the blend. It's really impossible to assign to any single art school. Her glass paintings are few but are her best, most original work, and sadly get very little notice.
#WatercolorWednesday :
Jemima Blackburn (Scottish, 1823-1909) Hedgehog with young in their habitat, 1858
watercolour heightened with white, 23.5 x 33cm #WomenArtists
"Bouquet of Flowers," Maria van Oosterwijck, second half of the 17th century.
Van Oosterwijck (1630-1693) was a Dutch painter of still lifes, mostly florals. She was quite a success, and a canny businesswoman, marketing her works to various crowned heads of Europe. She was a professional painter at a time when few women were, but she was still denied membership in the Painter's Guild because of her sex.
By all accounts, she was a deeply religious woman, and many of her paintings include symbols, either through color or other means, of her religious views. Butterflies were to mean the Resurrection, for instance.
She never married, but dedicated herself to her painting. She raised her nephew, and taught one of her servants to paint and be an artist herself, so she could be self-supporting. I like that aspect of her; not only being independent and self-determined, but helping others to be so as well, even if she was denied some opportunities because of the prejudices of the time.
(1/2) Maria Sibylla Merian was born #OTD (2 Apr 1647 – 13 Jan 1717).
Here is a 1719 copy of Metamorphosibus Insectorum Surinamensium turned to
“Pineapple with Cockroaches” that was on display at the “Making Her Mark: A History of #WomenArtists in Europe, 1400-1800” exhibition at the BMA:
Katze - Auf der Lauer, 1969
pastel, 17x25cm https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Katze_-_Auf_der_Lauer,_Margret_Hofheinz-D%C3%B6ring,_Pastell,_1969_(WV-Nr.4323).JPG