View Women to Watch: Celebrating the Centennial of Women’s Suffrage at Cheekwood

To celebrate the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage in the United States, Cheekwood Estate & Gardens is presenting Women to Watch: Celebrating the Centennial of Women’s Suffrage. The exhibition, which opened Feb. 6, will remain on view through May 2 and features works on paper by women artists from the Cheekwood collection. Among the artists whose work will be included are luminaries Helen Frankenthaler and Lee Krasner — artists who are much like the suffragists who struggled to have their voices heard. By only including art by women, Women to Watch lets viewers appreciate the work without comparing the artists to their perhaps better-known male contemporaries, and that will likely lead to a better understanding of the artist as an individual. Also in the exhibition is work by Clare Leighton, whose art was marginalized because critics of her time didn’t consider wood engraving a legitimate art form. Still, she persevered. Leighton’s work mainly depicts rural life, with working class men and women as the focus. View these works and others, and gain new insights into some of art history’s unseen and undervalued figures. For more information on Leighton and the other artists Cheekwood is celebrating, visit cheekwood.org. Through May 2 at Cheekwood, 1200 Forrest Park Drive DIANA LEYVA