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There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...

Mental Health Art History: 5 Artworks Depicting Asylums
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...

Mental Health Art History: Misère (and the Ethics of Depicting the Poor in Art)
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some similarities...

Rubens: The Early Years at the Legion of Honor
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so it...

Mental Health Art History: 5 More Artists with Depression
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...

Mental Health Art History: 5 Artists with Depression
If you think modern artists were the only dames done wrong, then you’ve got...

Dames Done Wrong: Judith Leyster
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...

Sartle School of Art History: Post-Impressionism
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...

Sartle School of Art History: The Symbolist Movement
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...

Berkeley Art Museum Previews Stunning Hans Hofmann Exhibit
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...

Monet: The Late Years at the De Young
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...

Sartle School of Art History: Color Field Painting
Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...

Dames Done Wrong: Gerda Taro
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...

Art History of Santa Claus
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...

Mental Health Art History: 5 Artists with Schizophrenia
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...

Dames Done Wrong: Berthe Morisot
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...

The Art History of Thanksgiving
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the de...

Paul Gauguin: A Spiritual Journey at the de Young
Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...

Dames Done Wrong: Marisol Escobar
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...

Mental Health Art History: 8 Artists with Bipolar Disorder
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...

Dames Done Wrong: Barbara Hepworth