Colorado Springs has a history of powerful and influential women. It seems fitting then that the wonderful Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center should host an art exhibition that celebrates women, as artists, subjects, and patrons of the arts.
Art Exhibition Celebrates Women Artists and Patrons

New Women Coming to Colorado Springs
Art Exhibition Celebrates Women in Portraits from John Singer Sargent to Cindy Sherman
“The title, All New Women, is referring to the “new woman” which was a woman at the turn of the last century, so 19th going into the 20th century, who was an early feminist in many ways,” says Armstrong. “These are women who were advocating for the advancement of higher education for women. They were patrons of the arts, much like the three women who founded the Fine Arts Center.”
Sherman is one of the most important living artists in the United States, and her work has taken photography to new and fascinating places. This exhibition matches Sargent’s paintings with Sherman’s photographs, and together they make curious visual statements about trailblazing women who forged new paths for the next generations.

Original article Women of Means by Edie Adlestein can be read on AAA.com
Image credits:
“Elsie Palmer” by John Singer Sargent, courtesy of Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center
“Debutantes Dreaming” © Sara Ware Howsam
Read more about Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center and this art exhibition