NEW YORK — When Paula Modersohn-Becker left her husband and stepdaughter to move to Paris in the spring of 1906, she was ablaze with ambition. Unbeknownst to her, she was also nearing the end of what ...
Paula Modersohn-Becker’s Self-Portrait in Front of Paris Buildings (1900) shows a dark face dimly projected against a brilliantly lighted wall. It’s a tiny, prettily colored painting reminiscent of ...
The trope of the neglected female artist may have completed its journey from urgent historical necessity to cliché last fall when the Cape Ann Museum attempted to reposition Josephine Nivison Hopper ...