Wisconsin Women Artists Featured at Milwaukee Public Library
In 2016, the Milwaukee Art Museum partnered with Milwaukee Public Library to present Wisconsin Women Artists, an exhibition of paintings on view through September 2019 in the Central Library Art Gallery.
Susan Cressy (American, d. 1942), Birds of Passage, probably 1921–1922 (detail). Oil on canvas. 20 3/8 × 24 3/16 in. (51.75 × 61.44 cm). Gift of A Friend M1922.21. Photo by John R. Glembin
In 2016, the Milwaukee Art Museum partnered with Milwaukee Public Library to present Wisconsin Women Artists, an exhibition of paintings on view through September 2019 in the Central Library Art Gallery.
From cultural leaders to art educators, women have played a pivotal role in the development of the arts in the city of Milwaukee and the state of Wisconsin. This selection of paintings by Wisconsin women artists spans more than one hundred years and highlights the breadth of their artistic contributions and output, from early realist landscapes and portraits, to abstract and modernist canvases.
Below are just a few of the works featured in the exhibition—stop by the library to see them all!
Susan Cressy (American, d. 1942), Birds of Passage, probably 1921–1922. Oil on canvas. 20 3/8 × 24 3/16 in. (51.75 × 61.44 cm). Gift of A Friend M1922.21. Photo by John R. Glembin
Ruth Grotenrath (American, 1912–1988), Sleeping Girl, ca. 1935. Oil on canvas. 16 13/16 × 20 1/4 in. (42.71 × 51.44 cm). Milwaukee Art Institute Purchase Prize, from the 22nd Annual Wisconsin Painters and Sculptors Exhibition M1935.4. Photo by John R. Glembin
Anna Louisa Miller (American, 1906–1997), October Storm of 1949, ca. 1949. Oil on Masonite. 24 1/16 × 36 1/16 in. (61.12 × 91.6 cm). Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Zadok M1951.5. Photo by P. Richard Eells
Ruth Grotenrath (American, 1912–1988), Untitled, 1963. Casein on Masonite. 30 × 24 in. (76.2 × 60.96 cm). Gift of Schomer Lichtner Trust and Kohler Foundation, Inc. M2008.193. Photo by John R. Glembin
Wisconsin Women Artists is curated by Brandon Ruud, Abert Family Curator of American Art.
