Four (More) Modern Women: O'Keeffe's Contemporaries
Taught by Jessica Murphy
Jessica Murphy is an art historian and museum professional with a longtime passion for perfume. She's been a contributor at the blog Now Smell This since 2007, and since 2015 she's been giving presentations about the cultural history of fragrance via the Institute for Art and Olfaction, the Brooklyn Museum, the Corning Museum of Glass, and other venues. Her writing about scent has appeared in Atlas Obscura and Viscose Journal and she's been interviewed by Vogue, The New York Times, Bloomberg Businessweek, Harper’s Bazaar, Decoder Ring, and other media outlets. She shares her thoughts on olfactory and visual topics at her Substack, Show & Smell.
Nov 2 class is postponed!
Georgia O’Keeffe may be the most famous American woman artist of the twentieth century, but there were definitely others working and breaking boundaries at the same time.
This class is an introduction to four other female artists based in New York between 1900 and 1940: Peggy Bacon, Abastenia St. Leger Eberle, Isabel Whitney, and Florine Stettheimer. Each artist had her own signature subject and style, from Bacon's scenes of bohemian life to Whitney's depictions of a changing Brooklyn, from Stettheimer's colorful family portraits to Eberle's realistic sculptures of immigrants. Yet these women shared similar challenges, balancing their creative output with family life, other employment, and/or commitment to social causes. In this session we’ll look at works from these four artists and learn how they negotiated the opportunities and constraints of their era.
