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My New Book Has Arrived!!!! Click Here for an Introduction
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The Best of Friends by Dan McNay
Helena de kay Gilder was an active member of a close
knit group of women artists who attempted a formal
art education at Cooper Union and then at the
National Academy of Design in the 1870s and 1880s.
She was bisexual in a time when there was little
acceptance, and had two serious relationships with
women before allowing men to court her. She and
another woman were the first in New York City to
have their own studio as independent women artusts.
Her life was a constant struggle against others bent
on their appropriation of her visual and emotional
presence. She was the subject of several paintings by
Winslow Homer and Cecila Beaux, and a stainglass
window by John La Farge. She was fictionalized in a
number of novels by Henry James and others. Her
career was stymied by the sexist and misogynist
society that surrounded her.
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