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"Girl with a Cat," Gwen John, 1918-22. John (1876-1939) was a Welsh painter who had a very individual style that defies easy categorization. There's Realism, of course, an influence of Impressionism, and maybe even some Pointillism. Her misty, hazy portraits of mostly unidentified women are usually very simple and direct, with no elaborate poses or attempts at symbolism. Usually they simply had their hands in their laps, and their hair in simple arrangements. The girl here has an almost sad expression; one wonders what is on her mind. John's work was overlooked for many years, in part because her younger brother Augustus John (1878-1961) was such a huge artistic force in his life, and because of her relationship with her lover/mentor Auguste Rodin. But in recent years she has undergone reassessment and is now hailed as a unique vision in the art world. Happy Portrait Monday! From the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. #Art #GwenJohn #Realism #WomenArtists #WomenInArt #WomensHistory #CatsOfMastodon

First women of philosophy Philosophy was once a woman’s world, ranging across Asia, Africa and Latin America. It’s time to reclaim that lost realm by Dag Herbjørnsrud https://aeon.co/essays/before-the-canon-the-non-european-women-who-founded-philosophy?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=a39fa187e5-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2026_09_25&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-72664972 Books about or by women philosophers at PG: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=women+philosophers #books #literature #philosophy #womeninart

"Lady with a Bowl of Violets," Lilla Cabot Perry, c. 1910. Lydia Cabot (1848-1933) was born into a Boston society family, and in her youth spent time with Ralph Waldo Emerson and Louisa May Alcott, both family friends. Her family were passionate abolitionists during the Civil War and worked to protect runaway slaves. After the war, she married linguist and academic Thomas Sergeant Perry, and then began her artistic training at the age of 36. She became a protegee of Claude Monet and friend of Camille Pissarro, and established herself as an American Impressionist. Although she never had the fame other Impressionists had, she formulated her own version of it and helped stir up the staid Boston art community. Several years' residence in Japan, when her husband was teaching at a university there, also influenced her. She started going by her nickname, Lilla. Here we have an unknown young woman, sitting serenely in a rich setting. We have part of a Japanese print and the bowl of violets present but carefully cropped off, a very Japanese choice. It's a lovely, serene picture, typical of her work. From the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC. #Art #LillaCabotPerry #Impressionism #WomenArtists #WomenInArt #Herstory #AmericanArt

How Medieval Women Expressed Their ‘Forbidden’ Emotions Upper-class women used letters and embroidery to reflect on their inner lives by Pragya Agarwal (from the archives) https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-medieval-women-expressed-their-forbidden-emotions-180983953/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=93133550 Medieval women at PG: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=medieval+women #books #literature #womeninart

Things I'm excited about today. My two new 3d pens, TPU flexible filament, my new respirator and, of course, experimenting. Made some cool things today. Fantastic plastic. #womeninart #3d #CreativeToots #mastoartist #ArtistsOfMastodon