Women in Art
Highlights of
the BNG
African Collection
Artists as Educators
Patrons of the BNG
100
One of the first art teacher to end segregation by opening her art studios to all black and white students. Her legacy can be found currently at the BNG in the Watlington Room with the bust of "Delight".
who is Bylee Lang?
100
The painting of this National Trust Site is currently on exhibit in the BNG's Ondaatje wing. Painted by William Howe Foote’s, this old Bermuda plantation site is close to 300 years old.
What is Springfield?
100
This large artwork made by a tribe of people in Mali is often surmounted by one or two larger figures representing the primordial couple. Other themes include animal figures, such as gecko lizards, which represent luck and large crocodiles, which denote power.
What is the Dogon door?
100
This artist went to London to study music in 1937 but WWII interrupted his studies and he returned to Bermuda in 1939. He was the first art teacher at The Berkeley Institute where he was able to reach a whole generation of students.
Who is Charles Lloyd Tucker?
100
This Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met) Director from New York City came down to Bermuda to discuss the relevance and role of "The Museum" in today's society at the BNG.
Who is Thomas Campbell?
200
She was a civil rights activist and a founding Trustee of the BNG. One of her most noteworthy endeavors was the organizing of a street protest against a local theatre that did not allow black patrons in 1951.
Who is Georgine Hill?
200
Among the Bamana people of Mali, West Africa, an oral tradition names a mythical being that is half mortal and half animal, the Chi-Wara. This icon embodies the essential virtues that Bamana people associate with the agricultural life.
What is the Chiwara Figure?
200
This artist works predominantly in printmaking using various mediums and techniques. The challenge of cutting the wood block, and its associate limitations, is his interest. This provocative self-portrait reflects Evans’s mastery, arrived at across a successful career as an art teacher and exhibiting artist.
Who is Vaughan Evans?
300
Her artworks depict domestic images of women, which was quite controversial during her time.
Who is Berthe Morisot?
300
He painted religious subjects, first in the Catholic tradition, and later trying to find new ways of conveying Lutheran religious concerns in art. He continued throughout his career to paint nude subjects drawn from mythology and religion.
Who is Lucas Cranach the Elder?
300
This woven fabric is produced in Ghana by both the Asante and Ewe peoples. All of the patterns used have a specific meaning and can be a powerful tool in the expression of ideas and politics. Historically, only kings used it; now only a few patterns are reserved for chieftains and royalty.
What is a Kente cloth?
300
This artist arrived in Bermuda in 1948 where she quickly built a reputation as an inspiring artist, teacher, and mentor. She held Bermuda’s first mixed-race art classes in her studios while schools were segregated.
Who is Byllee Lang?
400
Her large scale portraits of young black men often challenges the viewers' stereotypical perceptions.
Who is Jacqueline Alma?
400
Roger Tory Peterson was the art director for the Natural Wildlife Federation for more than 30 years and his artwork has been exhibited at The Smithsonian Institute. The rendering of this bird was painted to be included in one of Peterson’s renowned field guides.
What is the Cahow?
400
This icon embodies the essential virtues that Bamana people associate with the agricultural life.
What is the Chi-Wara Figure?
400
This artist an artist and social activist, who arrived in Bermuda in 1941 after studying art at the Massachusetts College of Art. Early on, she met Canadian sculptor Byllee Lang, an influential artist and teacher who broke down racial barriers. Lang’s studio was the first art studio in Bermuda where blacks and whites could create together in an integrated space. In 1947, she was among a group of artists who formed Bermuda’s first Art Association, held at the Hamilton Hotel, the site that is now City Hall.
Who is Georgine Hill?
500
Married to Joseph Harvey. She was one of the first people to come to Bermuda into 17th Century to settle on the island.
Who is Mary Harvey?
500
While the artist of this piece is unknown, its subject is well documented in The Royal Gazette of the day. Illustrating the H.R. H. Duke of Edinburgh’s Challenge Cup Race, held by the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club on July 4th, 1882, it shows the sloop Julia in the lead rounding the stake boat. One of the fastest boats of her era, The Royal Gazette records that Julia went on to win this race as well as another later the same day. The painting serves as a record of Bermuda’s racing sloops, with the four boats modeling their hulls, rigging, and sails from a variety of angles.
What is the Bermuda Regatta?
500
For the Dans people in Liberia, the leader of the organisation was always a highly respected elder, who used this object for purposes of decision-making and pronouncing judgments.
What is a Face mask?
500
He received his PH.D in art theory and criticism from New York University and returned to Bermuda to lecture at the Bermuda College for many years. As a founding Trustee to the Bermuda National Gallery, an active art critic, and practicing artist, his commitment to the visual arts is expansive. This work is part of an ongoing series that responds to his observations of nature and experimentations.
Who is Charles Zuill?
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