Overlooked Women Artists and Designers, 1851–1918

Nan West…Jessie Keppie…Beatrix Whistler…Mary Hill Burton…Florence Chaplin…Sylvia Lawrence… Marie Egner…Mrs. Bernard Darwin…Who is she? From the lone watercolourist to the Arts and Crafts partner, or the exhibitor under her husband’s name, this question echoes through the history of art and design, and despite modern interest in women artists, many remain little known. This seminar will focus on a period when women benefited from a wealth of new opportunities for training, patronage, and exhibition. In asking ‘Why invisible?’, it will reflect on exhibition and research projects that give attention to the methodological issues raised by women artists’ work, as well as its analysis, display, and popular or critical reception. Seminar programmed by Dr. Patricia de Montfort and Prof. Clare A.P. Willsdon, School of Culture and Creative Arts, University of Glasgow.