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The Story of Women and Art
The Story of Women and Art is a television documentary series, consisting of three one-hour episodes, on the history of women artists in Europe from the Renaissance onwards, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC Two in May 2014. The series is presented by Professor Amanda Vickery.
Artists featured include Properzia de' Rossi, Sofonisba Anguissola, Lavinia Fontana, Anne Seymour Damer, Angelica Kauffman, and the 17th-century Dutch paper cutter Joanna Koerten. Episode 3 covered Lady Butler
Education (SEP).
In 1932, Michel decided to move to New York, where she attended the School of Social Sciences for about a year. While in New York, she sang at a birthday party for John D. Rockefeller in his home and attended an opening held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York where she won $1200. She used her winnings to travel to Europe and the Soviet Union.
Her goal of going to Russia was to study the conditions of women in a socialist country and