Women Artists Installations at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
April 18 2024
Picture: MMFA
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts have organised a new series of installations in their galleries to draw attention to works by female artists (spotted via. @artherstory). Entitled Spotlight : Women Artists in the Early Modern European Art Collection, the displays promise to spark new conversations about 'what and who defines great art'.
According to their website:
Did you know women make up less than 1% of the named artists in the MMFA’s collection of historical European paintings, sculptures and works on paper? Most of their works have rarely, if ever, been exhibited at the Museum. [...]
Bringing together collection highlights, new acquisitions and never-exhibited works from storage, this presentation curated by Chloé M. Pelletier, Curator of European Art (before 1800), showcases women artists in the Museum’s permanent collection while questioning the value systems that kept them in the shadows for so long.
