New Post on Curators Blog ‘ The Seamstresses (c.1914) by Laura Sylvia Gosse'

We are proud that our painting “seamstresses” by Laura Sylvia Gosse has been loaned to the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown Massachusetts, USA to feature in an exhibition.

The major show is called “A Room of Her Own” Women Artists-Activists In Britain (1875-1945)

The oil painting has an interesting story to tell about women and art during the early part of c20. Painted as it was, in the same year that suffragette and art student Mary Richardson went into the National Gallery and slashed ‘The toilet of Venus’ (The Rokeby Venus) by Diago Valazequez with a meat cleaver. This protest was against the government for destroying Mrs Pankhurst the leading voice on women’s rights.

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