Episode No. 676 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features curator Jay A. Clarke.
With Jill Lloyd, Clarke is the co-curator of “Paula Modersohn-Becker: I Am Me,” which is on view at the Art Institute of Chicago through January 12, 2025. The career-surveying exhibition features Modersohn-Becker’s proto-expressionist works that address subjects and themes such as childhood, the bodily experience of motherhood, pregnancy, and old age. “Modersohn-Becker” also features many of the artist’s self-portraits, including the first nude self-portraits known to have been made by a woman. The excellent exhibition catalogue was published by Prestel Verlag. Amazon and Bookshop offer it for $40-47.
Air date: October 17, 2024.
Paula Modersohn-Becker, Moor Canal, ca. 1900.
Paula Modersohn-Becker, Birch Trunk in front of a Landscape, ca. 1903.
Paula Modersohn-Becker, Old Woman from the Poorhouse Sitting in the Garden, ca. 1905.
Paula Modersohn-Becker, Still-Life with a Green Flower Vase, ca. 1902.
Paula Modersohn-Becker, Still-Life with Clay Jug, Peonies, and Oranges, 1906.
Paula Modersohn-Becker, Reclining Mother with Child II, 1906.
Paula Modersohn-Becker, Kneeling Mother with Child at Her Breast, 1906.
Paula Modersohn-Becker, Kneeling Girl with Stork, 1906-07.
Paula Modersohn-Becker, Nude Girl with Flower Vases, 1906-07.
Paula Modersohn-Becker. Portrait of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1906.
Paula Modersohn-Becker. Self-Portrait with Two Flowers in Her Raised Left Hand, 1907.
Paula Modersohn-Becker. Woman in Profile, Turned Right, 1898–99.
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