Woman of the week:
Jane Addams
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Woman of the week:
Fanny (Frances) Wright
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Woman of the week:
Elsa Schiaparelli
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Woman of the week:
Marianne Werefkin
born 11 September 1860 in Tula, Russia
died 6 February 1938 in Ascona, Switzerland
Russian painter, art theorist and patroness/sponsor
The bold self-portrait of Marianne Werefkin at 50 is a favorite cover choice for books about women painters, with its red, passionately glowing eyes, its proud gaze, and its “unnatural colors and whirling brushstrokes.” It took a long time for women artists to win admission to their profession, and the revolutionary Werefkin embodies and depicts this breakthrough more triumphantly and convincingly that almost any other. Her self-portrait reflects “the personal dramatic self-image of Werefkin” (Mangold) and thus appears quite the opposite of what was expected of a lady. Werefkin was ahead of her time not only as an artist and …
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