JAC TALK: Women Artists in the Age of Revolution
Sunday, April 6, 4 PM
Free Admission | RSVP Encouraged
This program is sponsored in memory of Professor Mark Steinberg Weil
ABOUT THE PROGRAM
Between 1760 and 1830, women artists in Britain and France exhibited, sold, and created art at an unprecedented scale—producing over 7,000 works and building thriving careers across nearly every genre. Yet their contributions have often been overlooked.
Join historian Paris A. Spies-Gans for a fascinating look at how these artists studied, exhibited, and defied expectations, leaving a lasting impact on the art world.
Image: Self-Portrait,1790.
Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Paris A. Spies-Gans is a historian and historian of art with a focus on women, gender, and the politics of artistic expression. She holds a PhD in History from Princeton University, an MA in Art History from the Courtauld Institute of Art, and an AB from Harvard University. Her research has been supported by fellowships from the Harvard Society of Fellows, the J. Paul Getty Trust, and the Yale Center for British Art, among other institutions.
Her first book, A Revolution on Canvas: The Rise of Women Artists in Britain and France, 1760–1830 (Yale University Press, 2022), has won several prizes in the fields of British art history and eighteenth-century studies and was named one of the top art books of 2022 by The Art Newspaper and The Conversation. She is currently working on her second book, A New Story of Art (US/Doubleday and UK/Viking).
JAC TALK is a regular program hosted by the JAC to bring together artists and creative minds to share their stories with the Jamestown community and beyond.