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Paula Butterfield @pbutterwriter.bsky.social · 1h

If you haven't yet read some of these books, add them to your TBR (I'm adding three) list and dig in for #BannedBooksWeek. There are lots of other lists to investigate, as well!

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Paula Butterfield @pbutterwriter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Artemisia Gentileschi addressed the issue of rape in her painting of Susanna and the Elders. A victim herself, at 17, she held rage for the rest of her life, just as the Jane Doe in the Cornell atrocity will. Imagine if the Chi Phi boys had destroyed a professor's car. Outrage!

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Paula Butterfield @pbutterwriter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Happy #FirstDayOfFall! Coincidentally, Alma Thomas was #BOTD, and she created paintings beautifully appropriate for this day: Autumn Breeze, Fall Begins, and Falling Leaves-Love Wind Orchestra.

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Paula Butterfield @pbutterwriter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Today is Abbess #HildegardVonBingen's feast day. Here she is, receiving a vision with a witness nearby to confirm, the chapel at her abbey, and the plate from Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party, commemorating Hildegard in stained glass.

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Paula Butterfield @pbutterwriter.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Fruit Harvest, by Marianne Werefkin, #BOTD in 1860. Welcome, Honeycrisp apples and Bartlett pears!

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Paula Butterfield @pbutterwriter.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Fruit Harvest, by Marianne Werefkin, #BOTD in 1860. Welcome, Honeycrisp apples and Bartlett pears!

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Paula Butterfield @pbutterwriter.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Marilyn Minter's enamel on metal portrait of #GloriaSteinem. #RIP to a woman who has been an inspiration for the last 50 years.

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Paula Butterfield @pbutterwriter.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

It was the mid-70s; I was having breakfast at The Magic Pan (does anyone remember how trendy crêpes were then?) in Beverly Hills when a limo pulled up and Dolly Parton got out.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Yayoi Kusama (1929-2026) RIP

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Paula Butterfield @pbutterwriter.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Lavinia Fontana, #BOTD in 1552, is considered the first female professional painter in Western Art. She was given a state funeral upon her death, and a special medal with her image was created. Please note that she had 11 children. Art by @trudilula

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Paula Butterfield @pbutterwriter.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

American Pre-Raphaelite Mary Lizzie Macomber (#BOTD in 1861) painted Fate Spinning the Wheel of Time in a dreamy sfumato style.

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Paula Butterfield @pbutterwriter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

For #NationalPhotographyDay, Bay Area photographer Imogen Cunningham's pictures of Mills College dancers.

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The Misty Miss Christy @tmmc.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Black Cat Appreciation Day is celebrated annually on August 17th. Sita and Sarita, c.1921, by Cecilia Beaux (1855 - 1942) Oil on canvas / 44 5/8" × 33" / The Corcoran Collection at the National Gallery of Art

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Paula Butterfield @pbutterwriter.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

To finish #AfternoonTeaWeek, Danish artist #BerthaWegmann's Two Friends Having Tea in the Artist's Studio. Wegmann, the first woman admitted to the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, was a prolific painter who died at age 79 while painting in her studio.

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Paula Butterfield @pbutterwriter.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

American Impressionist Lilla Cabot Perry's Lady at the Tea Table shares her tea and biscuits with her dog. From 1905, a while after French Impressionism had its day. #AfternoonTeaWeek

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Paula Butterfield @pbutterwriter.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Mary Cassatt was particularly interested in depicting the tea party. The Tea shows Cassatt's Impressionistic style, while Afternoon Tea, one of her Japanese Ukiyo-e style woodblock prints, simplifies shapes and lines. #AfternoonTeaWeek

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Paula Butterfield @pbutterwriter.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Afternoon Tea on the Terrace, by Eva Gonzalès.. #AfternoonTeaWeek

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Paula Butterfield @pbutterwriter.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

For #AfternoonTeaWeek, paintings by #Impressionist women artists. The movement focused on scenes of daily life, and women's art focused more narrowly on the spaces they were allowed to occupy, like the tea table. Here is #BertheMorisot's Tea.

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Paula Butterfield @pbutterwriter.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

It's the 64th anniversary of #MarilynMonroe's death. Here is one of Audrey Flack's vanitas paintings of the actress illustrating the ephemeral nature of fame, beauty, life: the Queen of Hearts, a valentine, roses which will wilt, and a candle in the wind. #Photorealism

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Paula Butterfield @pbutterwriter.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

For #NationalSistersDay, here are Virginia Woolf & Vanessa Bell, Frida & Christina Kahlo, and Georgia & Ida O'Keeffe.

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Paula Butterfield @pbutterwriter.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

#JudithLeyster (#BOTD in 1609) painted for a mere six years before marriage and maternal duties derailed her. During that time, she was admitted to the Saint Luke's [Artists] Guild of Haarlem AND had a precious tulip named after her. This S-P shows Leyster's pride in her work.

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Paula Butterfield @pbutterwriter.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Late-Renaissance artist Elisabetta Sirani's Santa Maria Magdalena, for her feast day. #WomenArtists

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Paula Butterfield @pbutterwriter.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Like Eugène Atget, who documented 19th c. Paris as it moved into modernity (Corset Shop, below), #BereniceAbbott (#BOTD in 1898) recorded 20th century New York City as it changed (Storefront). Both shops were likely replaced by the new department stores. #WomenPhotographers

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Paula Butterfield @pbutterwriter.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Eighteenth-century French painter Anne Vallayer-Coster was known for her flower paintings and genre scenes, but this marine-themed still life is my fave, and appropriate as I head to the coast for a birthday jaunt! #WomenArtists

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Paula Butterfield @pbutterwriter.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I've never seen this painting before--a breathtaking work by our Old Mistress!

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Paula Butterfield @pbutterwriter.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

#HBD to #FridaKahlo, #BOTD in 1907. As a disabled person, Frida often found it easiest to be her own model. Wearing traditional garb and embellishing herself with flowers and jewelry, she was her own work of art. #LaPatrona #MexicanArt

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Paula Butterfield @pbutterwriter.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Everyone's on their way to the #July4th gathering depicted by #GrandmaMoses, whose work is synonymous with Americana. We've got flags, a picnic, a baseball game, and even a cannon ready to blow!

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Paula Butterfield @pbutterwriter.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

It's still #InsectWeek! Even Rachel Ruysch, arguably the greatest flower painter of the Dutch Golden Age, included them in this painting: Fruits, Flowers, and Insects. I see butterflies and a huge beetle. Am I missing anything?

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Paula Butterfield @pbutterwriter.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

For #NationalPinkDay, here are subdued pastels by Hilma af Klint (Group 1) and Helen Frankenthaler (Reflections), as well as shocking pink works by Lee Krasner (Combat) and Grace Hartigan (Untitled).

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Paula Butterfield @pbutterwriter.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Flowers, Insects, and Shells, by Dutch Golden Age painter Margaretha De Heer. #InsectWeek #RoyalEntomologicalSociety

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Paula Butterfield @pbutterwriter.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Berthe Morisot's sunny painting of her husband, Eugène Manet and daughter Julie playing with her red boat in a pond is perfect for #SummerSolstice and #FathersDay.

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Paula Butterfield @pbutterwriter.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Synthia Saint James depicts the celebration when the folks in Texas heard the news! #Juneteenth

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Paula Butterfield @pbutterwriter.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Shahzia Sikander (#BOTD in 1969) combines elements of Persian miniature painting with historical (a classical Greek nude sculpture, traditional dancers) & contemporary references (the jet at the top, the bold gaze of the horned woman looking back at the viewer) in Pleasure Pillars. #WomenArtists

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Paula Butterfield @pbutterwriter.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Faith Ringgold's The Flag is Bleeding (1967). #FlagDay

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Paula Butterfield @pbutterwriter.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Julia Margaret Cameron's (#BOTD in 1815) May Day is the photographic corollary of Dante Rossetti's The Beloved. She created #PreRaphaelite paintings on film.

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Paula Butterfield @pbutterwriter.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Here are Margo in an Orange Dress, by Mary Cassatt, and Portrait of Jeanne Pontillon, by Berthe Morisot, dressed in orange For #GunViolenceAwarenessDay They're VERY weary from hearing about too many episodes of gun violence!

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Paula Butterfield @pbutterwriter.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

From Rachel Ruysch (#BOTD in 1664) grande dame of Dutch flower painting, a summery posy AND a self-portrait.

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Paula Butterfield @pbutterwriter.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

It's International #HugYourCatDay. What a marvelous day! Here are some huggable felines (from upper right) by Berthe Morisot, Lilla Cabot Perry, Suzanne Valadon, and Lotte Laserstein.

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Paula Butterfield @pbutterwriter.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

#MaryCassatt (#BOTD in 1844), whose father was disappointed that she was not a more beautiful woman, supported her parents and sickly sister, fought for suffrage, and introduced the elements of Japanese art to the western world through her paintings. #Impressionism

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Paula Butterfield @pbutterwriter.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Excited! Mira Nair is making a movie about Amrita Sher-Gil, "the Frida Kahlo of India." You may know Nair, the mother of NYC's mayor, from Mississippi Masala and Salaam Bombay. Can't wait to see AMRI! www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/w...

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Paula Butterfield @pbutterwriter.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Focusing on the Pacific Heritage aspect of #AsianAmericanAndPacificHeritageMonth, here is a sculpture by Samoan artist Paula Schaafhausen, Kapa (tapa cloth made from bark) by Hawaiian artist Maile Andrade, and La Famille Pomare, an appliquéd quilt by Tahitian artist Aline Amaru.

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Paula Butterfield @pbutterwriter.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

For #AsianAmericanAndPacificIIslanderHeritageMonth, here are two San Francisco artists: Bernice Bing (here is one of her landscapes melding #AbstractExpressionism and Chinese calligraphy, Mayacamas #6) and wire-weaver Ruth Asawa (portrait by Imogen Cunningham.)

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Paula Butterfield @pbutterwriter.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Artist and Child (1988), a self-portrait of artist Karen Winslow and her baby, Annie. Whether you're a creator of art, life, or both, #HappyMothersDay!

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Paula Butterfield @pbutterwriter.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Mother and Child in a Garden, by Berthe Morisot, who liked to cocoon her subjects in swirling greenery. #MothersDayEve #LaLuministe

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Paula Butterfield @pbutterwriter.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Folklorico dancers by Sharon Weaver for #CincoDeMayo. Celebrar!

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Paula Butterfield @pbutterwriter.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

For #EarthDay, here is The Sleeping Earth and Wakening Moon, by Evelyn de Morgan. #PreRaphaelisteSisterhood

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