Folklorico dancers by Sharon Weaver for #CincoDeMayo. Celebrar!

For #InternationalDanceDay. Keep going, everyone!

Armenian guerillas. #RemembranceDay

For #EarthDay, here is The Sleeping Earth and Wakening Moon, by Evelyn de Morgan. #PreRaphaelisteSisterhood

#EvaGonzalès was #BOTD in 1849. A student of Manet's, she exhibited with the #Impressionists. Here is Secretly, from 1878. The young woman who is supposed to be practicing the piano is sneaking a read--maybe Flaubert's recent short story collection or his earlier Madame Bovary?

Don't you wonder what caught kitty's eye?

Here's a self-portrait Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun (#BOTD in 1755) painted at 16, along with another S-P from 1790, when she was 35. She'd recently fled Paris-the same night as did her patron, Marie Antoinette-for Italy.

Howardina Pindell (#BOTD in 1943) came of age artistically during Abstract Expressionism. Here is one of her "hole punch" works, featuring 1000s of painted chads. She started the first art gallery for women and fought for black representation in the art community.

Abstract Expressionist Elaine de Kooning was #BOTD in 1918. Happy belated #Caturday and #PetAppreciationDay!

Rabbits in the Garden, by Rosa Bonheur. #HappyEaster!

Marvelous Sugar Baby, by #KaraWalker. A monumental public installation at the Domino Sugar Factory in Brooklyn, it refers to the history of sugar "from the cane fields to the kitchen" and to the Egyptian Sphinx as a Southern Mammy. #WomensHistoryMonth #WomenSculptors

#BarbaraHepworth was a British Modernist sculptor with a style described as "sensuous abstraction." Both she and Henry Moore pierced their organic forms with holes to integrate the works with the space around them. (Both pieces below are Hepworth's.)

#ElizabethCatlett's Mother and Child (1984) shows how she made women monumental, no matter what material she used. (Here, mahogany.) “We have to create an art for liberation and for life,” she said of her belief in art as a tool for social justice. #WomensHistoryMonth #sculpture

#LouiseNevelson was known for her monochromatic sculptures made with scavanged pieces of wood. Her family came to the U.S. at the turn of the 20th century., but Nevelson didn't gain fame until she started making her #assemblages in the late 1950s. #WomensHistoryMonth

I love the intimate, emotional #sculpture of #CamilleClaudel. Here's Confidences, one of her small works from the turn of the 20th c., basically a 3-D genre scene, showing a group of girls sharing secrets. Influences: #Impressionism, #Rodin, #JapanesePrints.

#EdmoniaLewis was a peripheral member of the White Marmorean Flock. Born to Black/Ojibwa parents, she became a sculptor whose studio in Rome was a stop on the Grand Tour. Her work included the first images of Native Americans & freed slaves. #ForeverFree #MarriageOfHiawatha

Here's another member of the White Marmorean Flock, #AnneWhitney, a blue-blood from Boston who depicted the plight of the poor in her adopted city with this work, Roma. #WomensHistoryMonth #WomenArtists #Sculpture

Nathanial Hawthorne called the group of women expat sculptors in Rome during the 19th c. the "white marmorean flock," referring to the marble they used. Here is #HarrietHosmer, next to her monumental statue of Thomas Hart Benton. #Neoclassicism #WomenSculptors

Josiah #Wedgwood hired aristocratic women to lure their kind as customers. Here are Elizabeth Upton, Lady Templetown's plaque, Lady Diana Beauclerk's wine cooler, Bacchanalian Boys, and Emma Crewe's sugar bowl, Reading Lesson. #NeoclassicalSculpture #WomensHistoryMonth

The Education of the Virgin, by Spanish Baroque sculptor Luisa Roldán. Typically, 17th c. artists used polychrome on soft wood. Here, a legendary scene of Mary being taught to read by her mother, St. Anne. #WomensHistoryMonth #WomenArtists #HispanicArtists #Sculpture

One would think there were many women sculptors during the Renaissance, but Vasari mentions only one: Properzia de'Rossi. She began by carving scenes on peach pits but went on to create bas reliefs like Joseph and Potiphar's Wife-who doesn't want him to go! #InternationalWomensDay #WomenArtists

Sabina von Seinbach's father & brother were stone masons for Notre Dame de Strasbourg during the 1st half of the 14th century. Legend has it that they asked Sabina to create sculptures of Ecclesia & Synagoga, symbolizing Christianity & Judaism. #WomensHistoryMonth #MedievalArt

For #WomensHistoryMonth, I'm featuring sculptors in Western art history, starting with Kora of Sicyon (7th c. BCE). She allegedly traced the shadow of her lover on a wall, inspiring the 1st bas relief.

As #BlackHistoryMonth draws to a close: Mickalene Thomas's Les Trois Femmes Noire, her interpretation of Manet's Luncheon on the Grass.

Jane Stuart, the daughter of George Washington portraitist Gilbert Stuart, made copies of her father's paintings (although he never gave her lessons) after he died and she needed to support the family. Here is her version of the president. #WashingtonsBirthday

Elizabeth Shoumantoff painted 3,000 portraits during her lifetime, mostly of prominent Americans. She painted the official portraits of FDR and LBJ. Roosevelt died during his sitting, leaving this work to be finished later. #PresidentsDay #WomenArtists

Grace Hartigan received this "Valentine object" from Joseph Cornell, a play on her name: heart-igan. #ValentinesDay

Are you surrounded by dirty snow? Joan Mitchell felt your pain when she created Sale Neige, although somehow she made it beautiful. #AbstractExpressionism #WomenArtists #WinterWeather

Nigerian artist Marcellina Oseghale Akpojotor uses traditional ankara frabric in her mixed-media work. Here are A Beautiful Day and Quest for Ancient Truth. #BlackHistoryMonth #WomenArtists

To kick off #BlackHistoryMonth, here is a self-portrait of Lois Mailou Jones, a #HarlemRenaissance artist who incorporated African, Haitian, and African-American themes into her paintings.

Once a year, on #EdouardManet's birthday (#BOTD in 1832) I make an exception to my rule of featuring #WomensArt and share one of Manet's portraits of his painting colleague. Here is #BertheMorisot with A Bouquet of Violets.

In honor of #SquirrelAppreciationDay, here's a still life by Clara Peeters featuring a majestic specimen. It's also #NationalHugDay, but you probably don't want to combine the two celebrations!

Martin Luther King, Jr., by Alicia Van Noy. #MLKDay

For #NationalHatDay, here is one of Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun's self-portraits in her favorite hat. She had many of her models wear it, too, because she liked the shadow it cast.

Lilla Cabot Perry (#BOTD in 1848) in was an American Impressionist whom Monet considered his equal. Impressionism was influenced by Japanese art, so she came full circle when she lived and painted in Japan for a time. Below: The Picture Book. #WomenArtists #Impressionism

#AdorationoftheMagi, 1590, by #LaviniaFontana (Italian, 1552-1614). Held by Le musée Thomas Henry; source, commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ad... #womenartists #artherstory #Epiphany #ThreeKings #FeastOfEpiphany

For #NationalBirdDay, here is Gabrielle Münter's contemplative Breakfast With The Birds.

When I first taught courses about women artists, reading 3 articles in the NY Times (1/1/26) would have been a fantasy. bit.ly/4sqimvy Expressionist Gabrielle Münter bit.ly/494KLzE Finnish artist Helene Schjerfbeck bit.ly/4qIMOzv Photorealist Janet Fish

I read lots of good books this year, but the two that will stick with me are about survival. Read these to glean some tips on how to get through 2026!

Florine Stettheimer's Christmas, 1923. May you all reach that point in the day when you can enjoy a languid lounge! #Christmas2025

Josefa de Abidos, Nativity. #ChristmasEve

Winter, by Wendy Red Star. #WinterSolstice

If you've seen the current Manet & Morisot show in S. F. and you'd like to know more about Berthe Morisot's light-filled art-- as well as how she survived the Siege of Paris...and the love of Edouard Manet--La Luministe is available at Amazon, Bookshop, Barnes & Noble, !ndigo, or Regal House Pub.

I Lit All My Candles, by Hildegard Rath (1952) #Hanukkah #Expressionism

#BOTD in 1830, here are #EmilyDickinson's thoughts on snow: It sifts from leaden sieves, It powders all the wood, It fills with alabaster wool The wrinkles of the road... It reaches to the fence, It wraps it rail by rail, Till it is lost in fleeces; It fling a crystal veil...

December Second, by Grace Hartigan. What do you think is the story behind this painting? #AbstractExpressionism

Self-portrait of German-Swiss artist Lotte Laserstein and cat. #BOTD in 1898 #Caturday

The women-folk are busy in the kitchen in Doris Lee's Thanksgiving (1935). #HappyThanksgiving to all!

A sassy genre painting of stuffing the turkey entitled, Shake Hands? by American artist Lily Martin Spencer. #Thanksgiving