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“Let There Be Light.” Wynn Bullock (American; 1902–1975). Archival gelatin silver digital print, 1954 (2000 edition). Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio.

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September 19, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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“Autoportrait au chapeau de paille et à la palette” by Marie-Élisabeth Lemoine (French) - Oil on canvas / c. 1795 - Allen Memorial Art Museum (Oberlin, Ohio) #womeninart #womanartist #art #femaleartist #womensart #painter #Marie-ElisabethLemoine #Marie-ÉlisabethGabiou #AMAM #AllenMemorialArtMuseum
The work of French artist Marie-Elisabeth Lemoine (married name Marie-Élisabeth Gabiou), along with that of her sisters (painters Marie-Denise Villers — a personal favorite — and Marie-Victoire Lemoine) and cousin (Jeanne-Elisabeth Chaudet), is only recently becoming better known. She was among the students of Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun, perhaps the best-known female French artist at the end of the 18th century — when women painters were beginning to have more opportunities, though still woefully fewer than men. Here she depicts herself in front of her canvas, palette and brushes in hand. Her style of long elegant green dress with lace shawl, off-set straw hat, and gold hoop earrings, referred to as “à la créole,” a shape seen as emanating from European colonies, date the work to the early years of the French Revolution. Tables like the one here would have held pastels and artistic materials; the top level would likely have been used for items including oil paint, stored at the time in pig bladders, before metal tubes were invented around 1841. The precise meaning of her gesture towards the table is unclear, but she certainly draws our attention, proudly, to her tools. This is one of the three oil paintings by a European woman made prior to 1912 in the Allen Memorial Art Museum, joining Sofonisba Anguissola’s “Double Portrait of a Boy and Girl” of the Attavanti Family and María Josefa Sánchez’s “The Crucified Christ.” Lemoine’s husband, whom she married in 1789, was Chaudet's brother Jean-Frédéric Gabiou. Her work is usually signed "Eli Lemoine" or "Elith Lemoine", and her name is easily mistaken for that of Élisabeth Lemoine, née Bouchet. She has been described by some historians as a pastellist, though no pastels are known to exist by her hand.
April 27, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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Today we celebrate Eva Hesse’s birthday!

Eva Hesse (American, born in Germany, 1936–1970), No title (detail), 1964. Gouache and watercolor on paper. Gift of Helen Hesse Charash, 1983.109.6.

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January 11, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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Raymond Barthé (American, 1901-1989)
African Head, ca. 1935
Terracotta
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Shoeshine Boy, 1924-28
Bronze-colored terracotta
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December 21, 2024 at 6:44 PM
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Tōshi Yoshida (Yoshida Tōshi 吉田遠志) (Japanese, 1911–1995), “Walking Stone,” 1956. Color woodblock print. Gift of William (OC 1978) and Roberta Stein, 2021.61.10.

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December 7, 2024 at 1:00 AM
“Woman by a Large Window.” Richard Diebenkorn (American; 1922–1993). Oil on canvas, 1957. Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio.

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December 5, 2024 at 3:12 PM
“Showgirl in Yellow Costume.” František Kupka (Czech; 1871–1957). Pastel on paper, ca. 1900. Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio.

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December 5, 2024 at 10:47 AM
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Pierre Soulages (French, 1919-2022), “Bleu,” 1950-55. Color intaglio, mixed technique. Allen Memorial Art Museum, Art Rental Collection Transfer via Mrs. F. F. Prentiss Fund. 1972.60.

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November 14, 2024 at 2:09 AM
Soulages once said, “I love the authority of black—its severity, its obviousness, its radicalism.”

#PierreSoulages (French, 1919-2022), “Bleu,” 1950-55. Color intaglio, mixed technique. @allenartmuseum

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October 27, 2024 at 4:19 AM
Eva Hesse worked across many mediums and played with shapes, “curving forms and circles bound or bulged out of symmetry.”

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Eva Hesse (American, born in Germany, 1936–1970), No title (detail), 1964. Gouache and watercolor on paper. @allenartmuseum

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July 12, 2024 at 10:38 AM