“(Women) Artists from the Collection 1800-2022,” Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art

Image caption: Hedda Sterne, Everyone, ca. 1970, Oil on unstretched canvas. Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art. Article by Nan Chisholm. KC Studio – August 15, 2023.

In the 1850’s, Rosa Bonheur was officially granted permission by the French government to wear trousers. While permits were generally issued to those with medical issues, Bonheur, who spent much of her time in the countryside, in barns, the fields and even slaughterhouses to make drawings of the animal subjects for which she is so well-known, was given an exception. Wearing male attire, along with a pistol she sometimes carried […]

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