La Luministe is my historical/biographical novel about Berthe Morisot, the first woman Impressionist. Film aficionado, pasta enthusiast, Pacific Northwesterner.
Paula Butterfield
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Julia Margaret Cameron's (#BOTD in 1815) May Day is the photographic corollary of Dante Rossetti's The Beloved. She created #PreRaphaelite paintings on film.
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From Rachel Ruysch (#BOTD in 1664) grande dame of Dutch flower painting, a summery posy AND a self-portrait.
#MaryCassatt (#BOTD in 1844), whose father was disappointed that she was not a more beautiful woman, supported her parents and sickly sister, fought for suffrage, and introduced the elements of Japanese art to the western world through her paintings. #Impressionism
Mother and Child in a Garden, by Berthe Morisot, who liked to cocoon her subjects in swirling greenery. #MothersDayEve #LaLuministe
Excited! Mira Nair is making a movie about Amrita Sher-Gil, "the Frida Kahlo of India." You may know Nair, the mother of NYC's mayor, from Mississippi Masala and Salaam Bombay. Can't wait to see AMRI!
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Focusing on the Pacific Heritage aspect of #AsianAmericanAndPacificHeritageMonth, here is a sculpture by Samoan artist Paula Schaafhausen, Kapa (tapa cloth made from bark) by Hawaiian artist Maile Andrade, and La Famille Pomare, an appliquéd quilt by Tahitian artist Aline Amaru.
Artist and Child (1988), a self-portrait of artist Karen Winslow and her baby, Annie. Whether you're a creator of art, life, or both, #HappyMothersDay!
For #AsianAmericanAndPacificIIslanderHeritageMonth, here are two San Francisco artists: Bernice Bing (here is one of her landscapes melding #AbstractExpressionism and Chinese calligraphy, Mayacamas #6) and wire-weaver Ruth Asawa (portrait by Imogen Cunningham.)
Here are Margo in an Orange Dress, by Mary Cassatt, and Portrait of Jeanne Pontillon, by Berthe Morisot, dressed in orange For #GunViolenceAwarenessDay They're VERY weary from hearing about too many episodes of gun violence!
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It's International #HugYourCatDay. What a marvelous day! Here are some huggable felines (from upper right) by Berthe Morisot, Lilla Cabot Perry, Suzanne Valadon, and Lotte Laserstein.
