Grogan & Company’s annual Spring Auction will be held on Sunday, May 2 at 11 am at the firm’s headquarters in Boston’s historic Beacon Hill. This year’s sale features a curated .
Current and coming: Exceptional Impressions at the Dixon Gallery Editorial Staff
The Delaware Valley by William Langson Lathrop (1859–1938), c. 1899.
Brandywine River Museum of Art, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, purchased with funds provided by Mrs. David Craven; all images courtesy of the Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, Tennessee.
Impressionism was somewhat slow to gain a hold on the American consciousness, among both the public and most artists. Manet, Cézanne, and Pissarro were displaying their work in the 1860s; the first official impressionist exhibition in Paris took place in 1874. But it was not until 1886 that the impressionists had an exhibition in the United States, in a show in New York City organized by a French art dealer. But once impressionism took root in American culture, it proved to be not only the most popular and enduring artistic style ever to captivate the nation’s art lovers, but also a style that was uniquely adaptable to the American scene.
Wilhelmina Cole Holladay, Whose Art Museum Promoted Women, Dies at 98
She used her networking skills and social connections to establish the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, the first of its kind.
Wilhelmina Cole Holladay in 2014. She opened the National Museum of Women in the Arts in 1987 after recognizing that the contributions of female artists had been ignored for too long.Credit.Astrid Riecken for The Washington Post, via Getty Images
March 11, 2021
Wilhelmina Cole Holladay, who used her social connections, organizational acumen and personal collection of hundreds of works by female painters to establish the country’s first museum dedicated to women in the arts, died on Saturday at her home in Washington. She was 98.
Scores of women fell in love with Gibran and vice versa, in the US and abroad (France, Egypt and Lebanon) and love letters on both sides kept the post office pretty busy.
May Ziadi, a Lebanese author who settled in Egypt and who was a deeply literate, polivalent and a female activist, and respected by the literate Egyptian circles. Gibran and Miss. Ziadi swapped all kinds of letters until his death. She didn’t travel to the US to ever meet with Gibran and she wrote in one of her latest letters: “
I refuse to be a mere flower in your garden“