Woman with a Fan: Links 1

Woman with a Fan: On Maria Blanchard 
Links to works online:

***"Two Sisters" (page 23)
https://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrastic-journal/maria-blanchards-two-sisters-by-diane-kendig

I am indebted to Lorette C. Luzajic of Ekphrastic Review who published the poem with the painting.

***"Behave Yourself --Joan of Arc" (p.24)
https://art.rmngp.fr/en/library/artworks/maria-blanchard_sois-sage-dite-aussi-jeanne-d-arc_huile-sur-toile_1917

Blanchard's cubist works are not my favorite, because cubism isn't my favorite, but I love this one with that wry title. If only Joan of Arc could behave herself. If only Blanchard could have and become the schoolteacher in Salamanca as her family wished her to.

***"Seated Woman/Femme Assise" (p.22, sorta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IF3j9UoT27A

This painting actually is in the book, and I am grateful to the Meadows Museum in Dallas, Texas ("The Prado on the Prairie") for their use of it. One of my readers, Rachel Morris, who knows so very much more about art than I do, said, "I love cubism," and I must admit that this little video from the Meadows Museum has helped me to appreciate Blanchard's cubist works immensely.

***"Cubist Still Life" (p.22) 
https://hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu/objects/p.968.32

This painting is at the Hood Museum at Dartmouth. 

***"Child with a Handkerchief/Toothache" (p.34)
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/525232375280902701/

Blanchard actually produced two portraits of children on this theme, and I actually wrote on the child in white, which I will show later. But this pink-dressed child clearly has the same ache going, though she is perhaps a different model.

And speaking of models, my model for this poem is one by Andrew Marvel, though the portrait his is based on seems not to exist any more. Here's his poem:

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48329/the-picture-of-little-t-c-in-a-prospect-of-flowers

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Works in the book which have been reproduced in the book (with permission) can also be found online are "Woman with a Fan," and "The Communicant"  (both at the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, where you will find several more of her cubist works) and  "The Ice Cream Cart" (at the Pompideau Museum in Paris)

Next up: photos of Blanchard