Les Femmes 1969

[Toney Talbot]

Lithographeditioned specially for the Toulouse-Lautrec Circle of London in a limited edition of 1250 copies only and issued in November 1969 on specially watermarked paper with the official blind stamp.

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Joan Mir La Femme Angora, 1969 is fully documented and referenced in the below catalogue raisonns and texts (copies will be enclosed as added documentation with the invoices that will accompany the final sale of the work).

Joan Mir's whimsy and childlike sensibility are unmatched. A signed original Mir print, such as our collection of aquatints, lithographs and etchings, can carry an entire room. His large-scale graphic works are an excellent investment.

The Lavender Menace

"Ida," a member of the Gay Liberation Front and the Lavender Menace, 1970. Photograph by Diana Davies.

NYPL, Manuscripts and Archives Division, Diana Davies Papers. Copyright Diana Davies.

Digital ID: 1582182 Feminist author and activist Betty Friedan warned members of the National Organization for Women (NOW) in 1969 of the "lavender menace" threatening the women's movement. According to Friedan, the presence of lesbians in the women's movement would destroy the credibility of feminists, who would then be written off as a bunch of "man-haters." A group of GLF women, including author Rita Mae Brown and Karla Jay, decided to disrupt the Second Congress to Unite Women in May 1970. They crashed the conference wearing t-shirts emblazoned "LAVENDER MENACE" and distributed copies of a manifesto entitled "The Woman Identified Woman." The manifesto placed lesbianism at the center of feminist politics as a political, cultural, and erotic resistance to patriarchy. Feminism was never the same again. In the years that followed, many feminists declared themselves "political lesbians" to affirm their solidarity with lesbians and the centrality to their personal and cultural work of a commitment to other women.

A cadre of these GLF women split off to form the Radicalesbians. In these early years, many of these lesbian activists continued to work closely with their gay peers, but in the later 1970s many chose to work exclusively with other lesbian activists to create woman-only spaces. These new spaces provided the ground for the cultural and political work of lesbian feminism.

Colored crayons, ink and wash on slightly textured ivory-coloured velin 50.5 x 65.5 cm, framed under glass. Signed Picasso in pencil and dated 3.6.69 with black ink lower right, verso besides further traces of brushstroke inscribed mardi 3.6.69. [underlined]./...- 8.6.69 with brush in the middle. - Verso at upper left with the paper label of Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris, therein i.a. titled by hand "Femme et enfant dormant".

Zervos Vol 31, 229 with ill.

We would like to thank Galerie Beyeler, Basel, for the Archive information that the sheet was acquired by the gallery in 1971 as "Femme et enfant sur l'herbe. 3.6.1969" and was sold to the private collection in the same year.

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Photograph of Sylvia Rivera (with Christina Hayworth and Julia Murray) by Luis Carle, 2000. Gelatin Silver Print. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; acquisition made possible through the Smithsonian Latino Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Latino Center. Luis Carle.

In May 2019, the city of New York announced plans to honor LGBTQ+ activists Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera with a statue. The city of New York claimed the monument will be the "first permanent, public artwork recognizing transgender women in the world." Johnson and Rivera were prominent figures in uprisings against 1969 police raids at the gay bar Stonewall Inn. Their protests increased visibility for the cause of LGBTQ+ acceptance.

In celebration of Pride Month, we honor LGBTQ+ women who have made remarkable contributions to the nation and helped advance equality in fields as diverse as medicine and the dramatic arts. Here are a few of their stories, represented by objects in the Smithsonian's collections.

Entertainer and activist Josephine Baker performed in vaudeville showcases and in Broadway musicals, including Shuffle Along. In 1925, she moved to Paris to perform in a revue. When the show closed, Baker was given her own show and found stardom. She became the first African American woman to star in a motion picture and to perform with an integrated cast at an American concert hall. At the March on Washington in 1968, Baker was the only woman speaker. In her speech, she honored fellow women civil rights activists. She had relationships with both men and women throughout her lifetime.

Jane Addams wore many hats in the late 19th and early 20th centuries: suffragist, social worker, activist, Nobel Peace Prize recipient. Notably, Addams founded Chicago's Hull House in 1889, a time when many new immigrants lived and worked in harsh conditions. This settlement house provided health care, day care, education, vocational training, cultural and social activities, and legal aid to the immigrant community, creating a new model for social welfare. Addams maintained a decades-long relationship with philanthropist Mary Rozet Smith, marked by loving letters.

Activist Sylvia Rivera may be best known for her participation in the 1969 uprisings around the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City. When police raided the bar, patrons fought back. After these uprisings, LGBTQ+ community members founded the Gay Activists Alliance (GAA). Rivera campaigned with the GAA to urge New York City to end discrimination against LGBT residents. However, the GAA's leadership often rejected the role trans people, many who were people of color, played in Stonewall. Rivera worked with Marsha P. Johnson to create STAR (Street Transvestite* Action Revolutionaries). Rivera and Johnson provided a home and family for young LGBT people. Through STAR, they organized and protested around issues affecting their community in New York City.

Astronaut Sally K. Ride wore this in-flight suit during the six-day STS-7 mission aboard Space Shuttle Challenger in June 1983, when she became the first American woman to travel in space. Later in life, Dr. Ride, also an engineer and physicist, became director of the California Space Institute and a professor of physics at the University of California, San Diego.

In 2013, President Obama posthumously honored Ride with a Presidential Medal of Freedom. "She inspired generations of young girls to reach for the stars and later fought tirelessly to help them get there by advocating for a greater focus on science and math in our schools," he said. "Sally's life showed us that there are no limits to what we can achieve."

Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie is a Two Spirit* photographer and curator known for her artwork depicting Native women and families, urban Native people, and Indigenous responses to colonialist history. She was born into the bear and raccoon clans of the Seminole and Muscogee nations and born for the Tsinajinnie clan of the Navajo Nation.**

She is active in several Native American organizations and continues to document Indigenous community gatherings and acts of activism and sovereignty in northern California. She works as Professor of Native American Studies at UC Davis and Director of the C.N. Gorman Museum.

*Two Spirit is an umbrella term for Native people who have both male and female spirits and is used to describe different gender identities present among Native Americans and First Nations. Two Spirit people also use words from their Indigenous languages for gender variance.

Charlotte Cushman was an icon of 19th century theatre, competing on equal footing with the greatest male actors of the age and winning a loyal following across the United States and Europe. While Cushman played both male and female roles, she was best known for her male roles including Romeo (pictured), Hamlet, and Cardinal Wolsey in Shakespeare's Henry VIII. On stage and off, Cushman challenged conventions of gender and sexuality. In her adult life, she lived in a community of what she called "jolly female bachelors" or "emancipated women," known for producing art, wearing men's clothing, and lobbying for working women.

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