Diane Radycki

An accessible and in-depth study of Paula Moderson-Becker's final self-portrait, the earliest painting by a woman on view in MoMA's collection galleries Paula Modersohn-Becker painted her last self-portrait in autumn 1907, while she was pregnant with her first child. In the painting, she gazes straight at the viewer, holding up two flowers—symbols of the creativity and procreativity of women artists—and...