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Art review: Farnsworth puts spotlight on women behind the Maine arts scene Women of Vision uses artwork and wall texts to showcase their influence.
By Jorge S. Arango
Images courtesy of the Farnsworth Art Museum
Women have played enormously influential roles in the history of art since antiquity: from Theodora, Empress of Byzantium, and Isabella d’Este (known as “First Lady of the Renaissance”) to Peggy Guggenheim and Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. This illustrious circle has included great philanthropists, museum trustees, astute collectors, powerful dealers, brilliant curators. Yet few museums ever focus on these women, ceding the limelight instead to female artists (themselves still a marginalized group).
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