Did you know this about San Francisco’s “Painted Ladies”? 🌁 With Super Bowl week here, we’re soaking in the city’s iconic architecture, starting with the famous Painted Ladies. ✨ Fun fact: they are not the only ones! “Painted Ladies” actually refers to Victorian and Edwardian homes repainted in the 1960s using three or more colors, a trend sparked by the colorist movement after WWII left the city covered in dull gray paint. A local artist, Butch Kradum, helped popularize bright blues and greens

Happy birthday to #AliceNeel. Alice Neel painted people as they were, not as they wished to be seen. Her portraits are intimate, unfiltered, and psychologically precise, giving space to vulnerability, tension, and contradiction. At a time when women were expected to soften reality, Neel insisted on truth. She painted herself, her community, her lovers, and her city without idealization. Neel did not search for beauty. She searched for presence. #WomenInArt #ArtHerstory #PortraitPainting #KnowHer