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Celebrate Women’s History in the Arts

Celebrating women’s history in the arts. Enjoy a collection of posts that celebrate women’s history and impact in the arts. Works featured are from the Rollins Museum of Art permanent collection and include artists such as Rina Banerjee, Carrie Mae Williams, Lorna Simpson, Lavinia Fontana, among others. Articles continue to be added, so be sure to subscribe to the Rollins Museum of Art Blog.

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Lorna Simpson: Artist and Pioneer of Conceptual Photography

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A pioneer of conceptual photography, Lorna Simpson is best known for her large-scale works combining images and text. Simpson’s photography often questions and challenges conventional views on gender, sexuality, race, identity, and culture in the United States. Many of her pieces created between 1985 and 1995 incorporate text to complicate the meaning of the image and provide commentary on a variety of issues. Explore Simpson’s works from the Rollins Museum of Art collection

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3 black and white images of a woman and girl at a kitchen table in different sitting and standing positions

American Photographer Carrie Mae Weems

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Gain insights into the works of American Photographer Carrie Mae Weems that are featured in the permanent collection at The Rollins Museum of Art.

Carrie Mae Weems (American, b. 1963) Untitled (Woman with Daughter), From the Kitchen Table Series, 1990 Silver prints, triptych 28 1/4 x 28 1/4 inches each. The Alfond Collection of Contemporary Art, Rollins Museum of Art. Gift of Barbara ’68 and Theodore ’68 Alfond, 2014.1.26. © Carrie Mae Weems. Image courtesy of the artist and Jack Shaiman Gallery, New York.

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Lavinia Fontana: The Dead Christ with Symbols of the Passion

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Outside of my bias of having been trained as an Italienist, The Dead Christ with Symbols of the Passion, is one of the most important Old Masters in our collection (as a mature work by one of the few female…

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The Different Lives Of Women

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This post was written in 2019 and has been edited to update pertinent information. Rina Banerjee’s Her captivity was once someone’s treasure… combines historical objects (a Victorian birdcage, a 19th-century New England table) with elements both natural (gourds, feathers, shells,…

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