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The library was founded by Ola Ronke Akinmowo in 2015. Initially, Akinmowo used social media to ask people to send her any books written by Black women. After some weeks, Akinmowo received about 100 books for her project. The library's holdings grew to about 450 books in 2016, and to about 1000 books in 2018.
Woman Reading ( La Liseuse) is an oil-on-board painting executed in 1895 by the French artist Henri Matisse. [1] It is displayed at the Musée Matisse, in Le Cateau-Cambrésis, having been on loan from the Centre Pompidou since 2002. [2] It shows a woman, dressed in black, seated and reading, with her back to the viewer, in the calmness of a ...
Women reading in art refers to any artistic work representing one or more women in the act of reading. This subject matter is quite common, with images appearing as early as the 14th century. [1] Viewers are often exposed to a private, personal moment through these works. Reading Woman (c.1660) by Pieter Janssans Elinga portrays reading as an ...
The following is a list of notable African-American women who have made contributions to the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.. An excerpt from a 1998 issue of Black Issues in Higher Education by Juliane Malveaux reads: "There are other reasons to be concerned about the paucity of African American women in science, especially as scientific occupations are among the ...
Early life. Lilian Bader was born at 19 Upper Stanhope Street in the Toxteth Park area of Liverpool to Marcus Bailey, a merchant seaman from Barbados who served in the First World War, and a British-born mother of Irish parentage. [4] In 1927, Bader and her two brothers were orphaned when their father died.
Gemäldegalerie, Dresden. Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window (Dutch: Brieflezend meisje bij het venster ), also known as Lady reading at an open window, [1] is an oil painting by Dutch Golden Age painter Johannes Vermeer. Completed in approximately 1657–1659, the painting is on display at the Gemäldegalerie in Dresden, which has held it ...
Woman Reading is a 19th-century ( portrait painting) by Susan Macdowell Eakins. It is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. [1] Woman Reading probably depicts the artist's sister Elizabeth Macdowell Kenton. It is one of Eakins' many portraits of her family members in interior settings. [1] It was in the collection of Julius ...
Clip art. Clip art (also clipart, clip-art) is a type of graphic art. Pieces are pre-made images used to illustrate any medium. Today, clip art is used extensively and comes in many forms, both electronic and printed. However, most clip art today is created, distributed, and used in a digital form. Since its inception, clip art has evolved to ...