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Anyone expecting the Baltimore Museum of Art’s groundbreaking survey to simply ascend a group of overlooked female painters to a status equal to their male contemporaries, think again.
Indeed. Why give the world more images of, say, Frida Kahlo? Bringing to light female artists from several hundred years ago is both a niche and a feminist mission. I have a product that people don t yet know they need, Gaffney said. Recently, she s taken an interest in botanical painters such as Giovanna Garzoni (1600-1670), whose tempera-on-vellum Still Life With Bowl of Citrons appears on one card. A large insect on one of the lemons might be the 17th-century ancestor of the much-photographed fly that landed on Vice President Mike Pence s white head during his debate with Kamala Harris. click to enlarge