Delia Gaze | |
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Born | March 1951 |
Nationality | British |
Education | Courtauld Institute of Art |
Occupation(s) | Art historian and editor |
Delia Dorothy Gaze FSA [1] (born March 1951) is an English art historian and freelance editor, based in Deptford, south-east London. [2] She is best known for her work as editor of the Dictionary of Women Artists , first published in 1997, containing entries on 550 women painters, sculptors, photographers and workers in the applied arts. The book focuses on Western women artists from the medieval period onwards, and includes essays which place the artists in their historical context. [3] [4]
She has also written biographical entries for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. [5] Photographs by Delia Gaze are held in the Conway Library, Courtauld Institute of Art, London, and are currently undergoing a digitisation process as part of the Courtauld Connects project. [6] She has been a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London since March 2017. [1] She has also served as Secretary of the London branch of the Catholic Writers' Guild of England and Wales. [7]
Rita Angus, known as Rita Cook early in her career, was a New Zealand painter who, alongside Colin McCahon and Toss Woollaston, is regarded as one of the leading figures in twentieth-century New Zealand art. She worked primarily in oil and watercolour, and became known for her portraits and landscapes.
Marie Ellenrieder was a German painter known for her portraits and religious paintings.
Annette Messager is a French visual artist. She is known for championing the techniques and materials of outsider art. In 2005, she won the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Biennale for her artwork at the French Pavilion. In 2016, she won the prestigious Praemium Imperiale International Arts Award. She lives and works in Malakoff, France.
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Caroline Bardua was a German painter. She was one of the first middle-class women who was able to create an existence for herself as an independent artist.
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Dictionary of Women Artists is a two-volume dictionary of 600 women artists born before 1945, going back to the Middle Ages. It was edited by Delia Gaze with 23 advisors and over 100 contributors. Gaze is a writer for the Oxford DNB and wrote several biographies that were released in the 2004 edition of the ODNB.
Anna Blunden, later Anna Blunden Martino, was an English Pre-Raphaelite artist. She was a member of John Ruskin's circle and was one of a number of women artists working and exhibiting during the Victorian age. Her best known work is The Seamstress (1854), a piece inspired by Thomas Hood’s poem "The Song of the Shirt". Starting her career with oil painting, Blunden moved to painting landscapes in watercolours and these make up a large proportion of her remaining works. Her work was regularly showcased at the Royal Academy and by the Society of British Artists from 1854 to 1867, as well as by the Birmingham Society of Artists.
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Nanine Vallain (1767–1815) was a French painter active between 1785 and 1810. She was sometimes known as Jeanne-Louise Vallain or Madame Piètre.
Fernanda Frances Arribas (1862−1939) was a Spanish painter. She is known for still lifes and flower paintings. She taught at the Escuela de Artes y Oficinos in Madrid, and at the Escuela del Hogar in Madrid.
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Susan Durant Durant was a British artist and sculptor. She was one of the first female sculptors to achieve critical and financial success in Victorian Britain. Durant created a substantial body of work, often in marble and featuring characters from English literature or the Bible, but much of which has been lost.