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After returning home from a vacation in Quebec in August of 2019, I wrote an article about my visit to Montreal’s famed Notre-Dame Basilica and my opportunity…

/ Western art before the 20th-century was dominated by male artists. There had been celebrated female painters, such as Artemisia Gentileschi, Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun and Rosa Bonheur, but it wasn’t until the early 1900s that women began to enjoy comparable success with their male counterparts.  The exhibition features more than sixty works by the four artists Now a new exhibition at the Laing Art Gallery explores this breakthrough which has been taken for granted for nearly a century. The roots of this lay in the Victorian era, when those born, raised and educated in the later d...