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[barbara trumpinski]

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Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1996 13:43:04 CDT
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To: WOA-Herstory <ist...@cswnet.com>
Subject: 03-22-96 Women of Achievement and Herstory # 602

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March 22, 1996 - Episode 603 - Women of Achievement and Herstory
compiled and written by Irene Stuber
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Born 03-22-1822, Rosa (Marie-Rosalie) Bonheur, French painter and
sculptor, probably the most celebrated woman artist to actually gain
international recognition while she was still alive (until Georgia O'Keeffe). The
oldest of four children, her father who was a artist gave RB her first art
lessons. At 12 her mother died and she took over the duties of raising her
siblings on the edge of poverty but was able, with the cooperation of her
father, to continue drawing and sent to the same school as her brothers when
she refused to become a seamstress.
Fascinated by animals, RB dressed as a man to study animals both in
the country and in Paris. At 19 two of her pictures were accepted for the
annual Paris salon. At 23 she won the Salon's King Louis Philippe medal. Her
career based on meticulous knowledge of animal anatomy in her startlingly
realistic paintings coupled with artistic skill made her an icon in France and
became the first woman named an officer of the Legion of Honor.
At 27 she succeeded her father as Director of l`Ecole Imperiale de Dessin
(where her sister was an instructor). At 30 she received official police
permission to wear men's clothes and by age 34 she had amassed enough
money to buy a home at By, near Fountainbleau which she shared with her
domestic partner of 40 years Nathalie Micas. Her later domestic partner Anna
Klumpke became RB's best known biographer. RB chose to be buried next to
"her beloved Nathalie."
A romantic, she painted vigorously, meticulously, and large. Her "Horses
Threshing Corn" there are ten life-size horses. At the time, it was the largest
animal picture ever painted.
A personal note. Without realizing it, WOA author turned a corner at
the Metropolitan Museum of Art and was suddenly face to face with "The Horse
Fair." My knees almost buckled. One can almost smell the horses and the
sweat of the men handling them - the sting of the dust.
Both Bonheur and O'Keeffe painted their best known works LARGE ...
hmmm.
03-22 Anniversaries ...........................................
B. 03-22-1883, Jessie Sampter, American Zionist leader of the New York
City Hadassah.
B. 03-22-1892, Grace Longwell Coyle, social worker and educator who
self-described herself as "a group worker with great concern for social
actions especially in the field of industrial problems." Most of her life she
shared a home with her domestic partner Abbie Graham, biographer of YWCA
leader Grace Dodge.
B. 03-22-1899, Ruth Page, American dancer, choreographer, and director
who pioneered ballet in Chicago: Chicago Opera Ballet, Chicago Lyric Opera,
Chicago Opera Ballet (aka Ruth Page's International Ballet), the Page-Stone
Ballet and was president of the Ruth Page Foundation School of Dance 1971-
1991. Created a number of ballets.
B. 03-22-1909, Gabrielle Roy, French Canadian novelist who described life
in the isolated areas of Manitoba.
B. 03-22-1912, Agnes Bernice Martin, Canadian born American artist
abstract expressionist of almost legendary status. ABM was vital to the
development of minimal art. She remained with grid oriented works and did
reduction art while the main art movement was going in another direction. Left
penniless, her widowed mother raised Agnes and her children by renovating
and selling old houses.
B. 03-22-1956, Kathleen McNally Saville, rower and explorer who with her
husband rowed a boat from North Africa to the West Indies.
Event 03-22-1972, the U.S. Senate finally approves the Equal Rights
Amendment and it goes to the states for ratification. The ERA eventually falls
short of ratification and is discarded since its passage was given a never
before stipulated deadline. No constitutional amendment in the HIStory of the
United States has been given a time limit for passage except the ERA.
"Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged
by the United States or by any state on account of sex."
--The total and complete wording of the Equal Rights Amendment, other
than a short paragraph pertaining to enforcement.
Event 03-22-1994, British Mother's day and the first woman priest
ordained in the English Anglican Church celebrates communion.
Quotes du jour ................................................
". . .Twenty-four words have never been so misunderstood since the four
words 'One Size Fits All.'"
--Erma Bombeck, humorist, commenting on the Equal Rights Amendment.
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Don't let anyone tell you there weren't notable and effective women
throughout history. They were always there, but historians failed to note
them in our histories so that the women of each generation have had to
reinvent themselves.
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kit...@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu barbara trumpinski
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