Boudica Publishing Inc.
Represents Queer Authors and Artists
including:
National Award Winning Author & Artist - Liz Bradbury
Poet - Jean Rubin
(above) Homage to Amelia Earhart #1 $150 SOLD
Amelia Earhart (1897 - disappeared 1937) American aviation pioneer who set many flying records. 1932: 1st female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic ocean (second person after Lindberg). 1932—First woman to fly solo/nonstop across the US. 1935—First person to fly solo from Honolulu to the US mainland. Wore pants and butch tomboy clothes. Married George Putnam in is suggested a beard marriage. Wrote to him: “I shall not hold you to any “midaevil” code of faithfulness to me nor shall I consider myself bound to you similarly.” Some suggest she and her friend Eleanor Roosevelt were lovers. Disappeared over the Pacific Ocean in 1937, during world circumnavigation trip.
by Liz Bradbury
Year painted: 2021
Media: Watercolor, collage, and ink pen, one-of-a-kind original painting that is matted and framed.
Price: $150 SOLD Media: Watercolor painting with pen & ink, and collage
Frame Size (inches): 17 1/2 x 14 1/2, Painting Size: 9 x 7 1/4
To purchase this painting, call or text: 610-432-5449
Homage to Amelia Earhart #2 SOLD
Amelia Earhart (1897 - disappeared 1937) American aviation pioneer who set many flying records. 1932: 1st female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic ocean (second person after Lindberg). 1932—First woman to fly solo/nonstop across the US. 1935—First person to fly solo from Honolulu to the US mainland. Wore pants and butch tomboy clothes. Married George Putnam in is suggested a beard marriage. Wrote to him: “I shall not hold you to any “midaevil” code of faithfulness to me nor shall I consider myself bound to you similarly.” Some suggest she and her friend Eleanor Roosevelt were lovers. Disappeared over the Pacific Ocean in 1937, during world circumnavigation trip.
by Liz Bradbury
Year painted: 2023
Media: Watercolor, collage, and ink pen, one-of-a-kind original painting that is matted and framed.
Price: $150 SOLD Media: Watercolor painting with pen & ink, and collage
Frame Size (inches): 17 1/2 x 14 1/2, Painting Size: 9 x 7 1/4
To purchase this painting, call or text: 610-432-5449
Homage to Andy Warhol #2 SOLD
Andy Warhol (1928 – 1987) American visual artist, film director, and producer. Became and remains a household word. Lived as an openly Gay man. From Pittsburgh. Studied commercial art at Carnegie Mellon. Moved to NYC for a career in magazine illustration and advertising. Warhol’s work explored the relationship between art, advertising, and celebrity culture. Became leading figure of the 1960s pop art movement. Best-known for silkscreens and paintings of Campbell's Soup Cans (1962), and Coke Bottles & 100 Dollar Bills, sculptures of Brillo boxes, and the multiple image Marilyn Monroe silkscreen. Created work that enticed and involved the entire world. Produced films including those with drag, Gay, and Transgender performers The Andy Warhol Museum is in Pittsburgh.
by Liz Bradbury
Year painted: 2022
Media: Watercolor, collage, and ink pen, one-of-a-kind original painting that is matted and framed.
Price: $150 SOLD Media: Watercolor painting with pen & ink, and collage
Frame Size (inches): 12 1/2 x 14 1/2, Painting Size: 7 x 9
To purchase this painting, call or text: 610-432-5449
Homage to Anna May Wong
Anna May Wong, 1905 – 1961 Born in LA, birth name: Wong Liu-tsong, meaning "Willow Frost.”1st Chinese American Hollywood movie star (in 60s movies) to gain international recognition. Career spanned silent film, sound film, television, stage, and radio.Top fashion icon. NY Mannequin Society: ”World's best dressed woman. Starred in first US TV show with an Asian lead. Though a brilliant actor in every role, she was stereotyped in most films. Anti-miscegenation movie codes kept her from starring roles. Close relationships with Queer women including Marlene Dietrich and Cecil Cunningham, and never dating a man, fueled Lesbian rumors. 2022: One of first five icons on American Women Quarters.
by Liz Bradbury
Year Painted 2022, Price: $175 Media: Watercolor painting with pen & ink, and collage
Frame Size (inches): 20 1/2 x 16 1/2, Painting Size: 13 1/4 x 10 1/4
To purchase this painting, call or text: 610-432-5449
Homage to Anne Frank
Anne Frank (1929 - 1945) Frank’s brilliantly evocative, The Diary of a Young Girl, that she wrote while hiding from Nazi persecution in an Amsterdam attic with her family, has been translated into 70+ languages. Over 30 million copies have sold. Time Magazine named Frank among the 100 most important people of the 20th century. Frank’s descriptions of masturbation, and same-sex attraction - including kissing her girlfriend Jacque while in bed and asking if they could touch each other’s breasts, along with Anne’s euphoria at seeing images of nude women, were cut from early diary editions, until unedited 1990 versions.
by Liz Bradbury
Year Painted 2022, Price: $165, Media: Watercolor painting with pen & ink, and collage, Frame Size (inches) : 19 1/4 x 16 1/4, Painting Size: 13 x 9 3/4, To purchase this painting, call or text: 610-432-5449
Homage to Anne (Gentleman Jack) Lister (1791-1840), autodidact, dauntless traveller, science enthusiast, mountain climber, resourceful businesswoman,, and perhaps the most significant diarist of the early 1800s. Called the first Lesbian because we KNOW Anne Lister loved women…and had sex with them….and exactly how she had sex with them…because Anne Lister recorded it all in a 29-volume diary, encompassing 7722 pages and roughly 5 million words, with the steamier sections (about 1/5 of the diary) written in a code of her own design.
by Liz Bradbury
Year painted: 2022, Price: $150, Media: Watercolor painting with pen & ink, and collage, Frame Size (inches): 15 3/8 x 12 3/4, Painting Size: 10 1/2 x 8,To purchase this painting, call or text: 610-432-5449
Homage to Congresswoman Barbara Jordan #2
Barbara Jordan (1936 – 1996) US lawyer, educator, legislator, Civil Rights leader, (and probably) the first US LGBTQ+ Congresswoman. 1966 to 1972 — 1st Black person elected to the Texas Senate after Reconstruction. 1st Black woman to serve as President of the Texas State Senate. 1st Southern Black woman elected to Congress. July 25, 1974, in what is considered one of the 5 greatest speeches of the 20th century, Jordan introduced the impeachment proceedings against President Nixon. Jordan's partner of 19 years, Nancy Earl, met Jordan on a camping trip in the late 1960s. They stayed together until Jordan’s death.
by Liz Bradbury
Year painted: 2022
Media: Watercolor, collage, and ink pen, one-of-a-kind original painting that is matted and framed.
Size of frame: height 20 inches, width 22 inches
Price: $165 (plus tax)
To purchase this painting, call or text: 610-432-5449
Homage to Congresswoman Barbara Jordan #3 SOLD
Barbara Jordan (1936 – 1996) US lawyer, educator, legislator, Civil Rights leader, (and probably) the first US LGBTQ+ Congresswoman. 1966 to 1972 — 1st Black person elected to the Texas Senate after Reconstruction. 1st Black woman to serve as President of the Texas State Senate. 1st Southern Black woman elected to Congress. July 25, 1974, in what is considered one of the 5 greatest speeches of the 20th century, Jordan introduced the impeachment proceedings against President Nixon. Jordan's partner of 19 years, Nancy Earl, met Jordan on a camping trip in the late 1960s. They stayed together until Jordan’s death.
by Liz Bradbury
Year painted: 2022
Media: Watercolor, collage, and ink pen, one-of-a-kind original painting that is matted and framed.
Size of frame: height 10 inches, width 12 inches
Price: $165 (plus tax) created in small size on commission: SOLD
To purchase this painting, call or text: 610-432-5449
Homage to Bayard Rustin
Homage to Bayard Rustin (1912 – 1987) American Civil Rights, and Gay rights leader. The architect of Martin Luther King’s march in 1963 in which King gave his “I Have a Dream” speech. Rustin taught Martin Luther King about non-violent activism, which Rustin had learned from Gandhi. Rustin was openly Gay. Senator Strom Thurmond railed against him as a "Communist, draft-dodger, and homosexual.” Yet, King continued to work with Rustin. Rustin was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Obama. The street along side Bradbury-Sullivan Center was renamed Bayard Rustin Way in 2019.
By Liz Bradbury, Year painted: 2020, Media: Watercolor, collage, and ink pen, one-of-a-kind original painting that is matted and framed, Frame Size (inches): 21 x 17, Painting Size: 13 1/4 x 10 14 Price: $150 (plus tax) created in small size on commission: To purchase this painting, call or text: 610-432-5449
Homage to Bessie Smith SOLD
Bessie Smith (1894 – 1937) Smith was an American blues singer known as the "Empress of the Blues”. Considered the most popular, highest paid, and greatest female blues singer of the 1930s. She made 160 recordings, accompanied by the finest musicians of the day. Smith's encouraged working-class women to be independent, fearlessness, and to express sexual freedom. Smith's queer themed songs included :“When you see two women walking hand in hand, just look ’em over and try to understand - They’ll go to those parties—have the lights down low—only those parties where women can go.”
By Liz Bradbury, Year Painted: 2022, Price: $150 SOLD Media: Watercolor painting with pen & ink, and collage, Frame Size (inches): 17 3/8 x 16, Painting Size: 10 1/2 x 8 1/2, To purchase this painting, call or text: 610-432-5449
Homage to LGBTQ+ Biden Staff
Biden has worked from day one to undo the decimation of LGBTQ rights wrought by the prior administration. Among many many things, he appointed many OUT LGBTQ+ people to his staff including: *Pete Buttigieg, Transportation Secretary, Openly Gay man - 1st out LGBT+ person in US history to hold a full-time cabinet post. *Carlos Elizondo, White House Social Secretary, Openly Gay Latino, Veteran. *Karine Jean-Pierre, Deputy White House Press Secretary, Openly Lesbian, Black, Haitian. *Pili Tobar, Deputy White House Communications Director. Openly Lesbian Guatemalan-American, *Stuart Delery, White House Deputy Counsel. Openly Gay, *Gautam Raghavan, Deputy Director of the Presidential Personnel Office. Openly Gay Indian American, *Jessica Stern, US Special Envoy to Advance the Human Rights of LGBTQI+ Persons, Former Executive Director of OutRight, Veteran LGBTQ Activist. *Arlando Teller, U.S. Department of Transportation’s Deputy Assistant Secretary for Tribal Affairs, Openly Gay Navajo Man, *Dr. Rachel Levine, Assistant Secretary of Health, Openly Transgender Woman
By Liz Bradbury, Year Painted: 2022, Price: $150, Media: Watercolor painting with pen & ink, and collage, Frame Size (inches): 20 3/4 x 14 3/4, Painting Size: 17 x 11 1/2
Homage to Chick the Cherub
Chick the Cherub was the Gender Neutral, and (perhaps Non-Binary), Child of Oz - (created in 1906) from the book John Dough and Chick the Cherub by L Frank Baum (who wrote the Wonderful Wizard of Oz in 1899). A 100 word introduction of Chick in the story, and indeed in the entire 300 page book, no binary gender pronoun is ever used. Though many characters ask whether Chick is a boy or girl, Chick’s gender remains non-binary. Chick does not indicate their own gender. Illustrator J. R.Neill pictured Chick in a gender neutral outfit and Buster Brown haircut. L. Frank Baum refused to ever identify Chick’s gender, even when the publisher insisted.
by Liz Bradbury, Year painted: 2022, Price: $165, Media: Watercolor painting with pen & ink, and collage, Frame Size (inches): 20 3/8 x 16 1/4, Painting Size: 13 1/4 x 10 1/4
Homage to Claude Cahun
Claude Cahun (1894 – 1954) French surrealist photographer, sculptor, and writer working primarily in the 1930s and 40s. Cahun, who adopted their chosen name in 1914, wrote: "Masculine? Feminine? It depends on the situation. Neuter is the only gender that always suits me”. Cahun and lifelong partner Marcel Moore, who was also gender diverse, bravely acted as resistance workers and underground propagandists during the Nazi occupation of France. In 1944, Cahun and Moore were arrested by Nazis and sentenced to death. The war ending caused their release, but lasting affects of the prison camp caused their early death in 1954.
by Liz Bradbury, Year Painted 2022, Price: $150, Media: Watercolor painting with pen & ink, and collage, Frame Size (inches): 19 14 x 13, Painting Size: 11 x 5 3/4
Homage to Gen. Casimir Pulaski
General Casimir Pulaski (1745-1779), In 1777, brilliant, daring Polish cavalry leader Casimir Pulaski saved General George Washington in the battle of Brandywine. Pulaski, was made a General and lauded as a hero. Pulaski bridge, Pulaski highway in Baltimore, Pulaski Day in Illinois — are all named for him. He was killed in battle in Savannah, and buried there. In 1853, a monument was built over his tomb. In 1996, the tomb was opened for repairs, exposing Pulaski’s bones. Shocked forensic anthropologists identified the skeleton as biologically female! In 2019, Pulaski’s identity was confirmed by DNA. Was he an Intersex man? Was he was a Transman? Or… was this a woman pretending to be a man because she wanted be a swashbuckling horse-riding soldier? In any case, General Pulaski was not a cisgender man… But is a Queer icon!
by Liz Bradbury, Year Painted 2022, Price: $145, Media: Watercolor painting with pen & ink, and collage, Frame Size(inches): 15 x 12, Painting Size: 7 1/2 x 9 1/4
Homage to Dolly Parton
Dolly Parton (born 1946) American singer-brilliant songwriter, actress, philanthropist, businesswoman, LGBTQ Icon, and supporter. Parton has sold more than 100 million records worldwide. 25 songs have reached #1. Parton’s Dollywood Foundation has supported literacy - mailing a monthly book to almost 850,000 children across the U.S., Canada, the UK, Australia, and Ireland since the 1980s. She donated $1 million towards Covid viable vaccine research at Vanderbilt Medical Center, helping to make it happen.She has spoken supportively of her queer fans on many occasions. She wrote the song "Travelin' Thru,” an anthem of transformation and bravery, that was featured in Transamerica.
by Liz Bradbury, Year Painted: 2022, Price: $150, Media: Watercolor painting with pen & ink, and collage, Frame
Size (inches): 16 x 16, Painting Size: 10 x 10
Homage to Edith "Edie" Windsor
Edie Windsor (1929 – 2017) was an American LGBT rights activist and brilliant mathematician. She was the first woman executive at IBM. United States v. Windsor overturned a federal section of the US ban on same-sex marriage and led to the successful case that granted full US same-sex marriage equality. LGBTQ Americans would not have had legal marriage if not for Edie Windsor, because her life circumstances and the marriage to the love of her life Thea Spyer were unique in allowing her to sue the US Government for marriage rights. She solely brought the suit, finding and paying her legal team, without the initial aid or encouragement of national LGBTQ+ organizations.
by Liz Bradbury, Price: $150, Media: Watercolor painting with pen & ink, and collage ,
Frame Size (inches): 14 1/2 x 11 1/2, Painting Size: 9 1/2 x 7 1/4
Homage to Edmonia Lewis
Edmonia Lewis, (1844 – 1907) also known as "Wildfire", was a 19th century American sculptor of African-American and Native American (Mississauga Ojibwe) heritage. The first American BIPOC sculptor to achieve national and then international prominence. Lewis was the most significant US Black woman artist of the 19th century. She worked most of her career in the enclave of Lesbian writers and artists in Rome, Italy. She related ancient and mythological themes to slavery and oppression of Black and Indigenous peoples, presenting them in Neoclassical-styled sculpture - to call attention to injustice and intolerance. Lewis created the sculpture, “The Death of Cleopatra”, for the Women’s Pavilion of the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. It was lauded as "the most remarkable piece of sculpture in the American section.”
by Liz Bradbury, Year Painted: 2022, Price: $150, Media: Watercolor painting with pen & ink, and collage,
Frame Size (inches): 16 1/4 x 14, Painting Size: 9 1/4 x 7 3/8
Homage to Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 – 1962) American diplomat and activist. Longest-serving First Lady, (1933, to 1945). Brilliantly redefined the First Lady role. First 1st Lady to hold regular press conferences, write a daily newspaper column, host a weekly radio show, etc.Advocated for women in the workplace, African Americans, Asian Americans, and World War II refugees civil rights, and the rights of WW2 refugees. She pressed the US to join the UN and became its first delegate.At 51, ER met reporter Lorena Hickok (Lesbian) and love bloomed. ER wrote daily 10 page letters to “Hick" that included, "I want to put my arms around that included, "I want to put my arms around you & kiss you at the corner of your mouth,” and, "I can't kiss you, so I kiss your 'picture' good night and good
morning!”
by Liz Bradbury, Year Painter 2021 Price: $160, Media: Watercolor painting with pen & ink, and collage,
Frame Size (inches): 21 x 17, Painting Size: 13 1/2 x 10 1/4
Homage to Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson, 2019 born 1830 died 1886. One of the greatest American poets. Lived all her life in her family home, “The Homestead” in Amherst, Massachusetts. She attended Mount Holyoke Female Seminary that later became Mount Holyoke College. Dickison wrote over 1775 poems in her lifetime and tried to get them published, but only 12 were published while she was alive. Of those, most were heavily edited by the publishers to conform to the Victorian rhyme standard, rather than Dickinson’s groundbreaking slant rhyme scheme, that she pioneered.
Dickinson met and began her relationship with Susan Gilbert, when they were both adolescents. Susan was the love of Emily’s life. Sue Gilbert married Emily’s brother Austin though their relationship was not close. Sue lived next to door Emily in a house built by Emily’s father, they saw each other daily.
Emily wrote over 500 romantic letters and love poems to Sue.
Including:
"Susan knows / she is a Siren --
/and that at a / word from her, / Emily would / forfeit Righteousness -- "
by Liz Bradbury, Year Painted: 2018
Media: Watercolor painting with pen & ink, and collage, Price: $185,
Frame (inches) 31 x 34,
Painting size: 16 1/2 x 16 1/2
Homage to Dame Ethel Smyth
Dame Ethel Smyth (1858 – 1944) English composer, suffragette. Created piano works, chamber music, orchestral works, choral works and operas. Wrote the Suffragette Anthem, “The March of the Women”. For more than a century, her opera, Der Wald, (1903) was the only opera by a woman composer ever produced at New York's Metropolitan Opera. Arrested for window smashing. While in prison, she directed women singing “March of the Women” in the prison yard, from a window, with her toothbrush. She wrote a male friend in 1892: "I wonder why it is so much easier for me to love my own sex more passionately than yours.” At age 71, she fell in love with writer Virginia Woolf.
by Liz Bradbury, Year Painted: 2022
Price: $150, Media: Watercolor painting with pen & ink, and collage
Frame Size (inches): 17 3/4 x 15, Painting Size: 11 1/2 x 8 1/2
Homage to Frances Perkins #1 SOLD
Frances Perkins (1880 – 1965) United States secretary of labor from 1933 to 1945, the longest serving in that position, the 1st woman to serve in a presidential cabinet and enter the presidential line of secession. under Franklin D. Roosevelt. As US Secretary of Labor, reduced the workweek to 48 hours, championed minimum wage, created child labor laws and unemployment insurance laws, and created the polices for Social Security. Perkins was in a long-term committed relationship with Mary Harriman Rumsey, publisher of the forerunner to Newsweek magazine. Shared Rumsey’s house in DC until Rumsey was killed suddenly in a horse riding accident the week that Perkins was on deadline to craft the US Social Security legislation that did pass in Congress.
By Liz Bradbury, Year Painted 2017
Price: $165 SOLD
Media: Watercolor painting with pen & ink, and collage
Frame Size (inches): 31 x 34
Painting Size: 16 1/2 x 16 1/2
Homage to Frances Perkins #2 SOLD
Frances Perkins (1880 – 1965) United States secretary of labor from 1933 to 1945, the longest serving in that position, the 1st woman to serve in a presidential cabinet and enter the presidential line of secession. under Franklin D. Roosevelt. As US Secretary of Labor, reduced the workweek to 48 hours, championed minimum wage, created child labor laws and unemployment insurance laws, and created the polices for Social Security. Perkins was in a long-term committed relationship with Mary Harriman Rumsey, publisher of the forerunner to Newsweek magazine. Shared Rumsey’s house in DC until Rumsey was killed suddenly in a horse riding accident the week that Perkins was on deadline to craft the US Social Security legislation that did pass in Congress.
By Liz Bradbury, Year Painted 2018
Price: $165 SOLD
Media: Watercolor painting with pen & ink, and collage
Frame Size (inches): 31 x 34
Painting Size: 16 1/2 x 16 1/2
Homage to Frances Perkins
Frances Perkins (1880 – 1965) United States secretary of labor from 1933 to 1945, the longest serving in that position, the 1st woman to serve in a presidential cabinet and enter the presidential line of secession. under Franklin D. Roosevelt. As US Secretary of Labor, reduced the workweek to 48 hours, championed minimum wage, created child labor laws and unemployment insurance laws, and created the polices for Social Security. Perkins was in a long-term committed relationship with Mary Harriman Rumsey, publisher of the forerunner to Newsweek magazine. Shared Rumsey’s house in DC until Rumsey was killed suddenly in a horse riding accident the week that Perkins was on deadline to craft the US Social Security legislation that did pass in Congress.
By Liz Bradbury, Year Painted 2022
Price: $160
Media: Watercolor painting with pen & ink, and collage
Frame Size (inches): 20 3/8 x 16 1/4, Painting Size: 15 1/4 x 11 1/4
Homage to Frida Kahlo #1 SOLD
Homage to Frida Kahlo (1907 – 1954) Mexican artist known for her self-portraits and works inspired by indigenous art. Kahlo used her unique painting technique in over 150 works to expose issues of gender identity, anti-colonialism, class, ethnicity, indigenous heritage, sexuality, infidelity, chronic pain, personal loss and tragedy. She was married to muralist Diego Rivera. She was openly Bisexual and Genderqueer. Kahlo contracted polio at 6, and was in a severe trolly car collision at 18. Both caused her lifelong pain. She had affairs with singer Chevela Vargas, Russian leader Leon Trotsky, photographer Nicolas Muray, sculptor Isamu Noguchi, and is likely to have been lovers with Josephine Baker; photographer Tina Menotti… and she wrote love letters to Georgia O’Keeffe.
By Liz Bradbury, Painted Year 2021
Price: $155, SOLD
Media: Watercolor painting with pen & ink, and collage
Frame Size (inches): 24 x 16 1/2, Painting Size: 16 x 2 1/2
Homage to Frida Kahlo #2 SOLD
Homage to Frida Kahlo (1907 – 1954) Mexican artist known for her self-portraits and works inspired by indigenous art. Kahlo used her unique painting technique in over 150 works to expose issues of gender identity, anti-colonialism, class, ethnicity, indigenous heritage, sexuality, infidelity, chronic pain, personal loss and tragedy. She was married to muralist Diego Rivera. She was openly Bisexual and Genderqueer. Kahlo contracted polio at 6, and was in a severe trolly car collision at 18. Both caused her lifelong pain. She had affairs with singer Chevela Vargas, Russian leader Leon Trotsky, photographer Nicolas Muray, sculptor Isamu Noguchi, and is likely to have been lovers with Josephine Baker; photographer Tina Menotti… and she wrote love letters to Georgia O’Keeffe.
By Liz Bradbury, Painted Year 2022
Price: $165, SOLD
Media: Watercolor painting with pen & ink, and collage
Frame Size (inches): 19 1/4 x 24, Painting Size: 10 3/4 x 15 1/2
Homage to Frida Kahlo #3 SOLD
Homage to Frida Kahlo (1907 – 1954) Mexican artist known for her self-portraits and works inspired by indigenous art. Kahlo used her unique painting technique in over 150 works to expose issues of gender identity, anti-colonialism, class, ethnicity, indigenous heritage, sexuality, infidelity, chronic pain, personal loss and tragedy. She was married to muralist Diego Rivera. She was openly Bisexual and Genderqueer. Kahlo contracted polio at 6, and was in a severe trolly car collision at 18. Both caused her lifelong pain. She had affairs with singer Chevela Vargas, Russian leader Leon Trotsky, photographer Nicolas Muray, sculptor Isamu Noguchi, and is likely to have been lovers with Josephine Baker; photographer Tina Menotti… and she wrote love letters to Georgia O’Keeffe.
By Liz Bradbury, Painted Year 2022
Price: $160, SOLD
Media: Watercolor painting with pen & ink, and collage
Frame Size (inches): 12 x 16, Painting Size: 9 x 12
Homage to George Takei
George Takei (pronounced Takei…rhymes with GAY according to George Takei) (Born 1937) Original (1965) Star Trek actor, author, and LGBTQ activist. Born to Japanese-American parents. As a toddler, he and his parents were forced to live in internment (concentration) camps in California. Takei came out formally in 2005 in response to CA Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s anti-marriage equality vote. He is also a vocal advocate of immigrant rights, in part through his work on the 2012 Broadway show Allegiance, about the internment experience.
Takei is also well known for snappy comebacks.
Heckler Troll: Why do gay dudes have that Gay tone?
Takei: What you call tone, we call vocabulary.
by Liz Bradbury, Painted 2022
Price: $145
Media: Watercolor painting with pen & ink, and collage
Frame Size (inches): 16 x 13, Painting Size: 9 3/8 x 7 3/8
Homage to Gertrude Stein #2
Gertrude Stein (with Alice Toklas) (1874 – 1946) American novelist, poet, playwright, art promoter and collector, Lesbian life partner of Alice B. Toklas. Stein saw her intellectual identity as masculine.
Stein moved to Paris and had brief relationships with other women, but in 1907, she met and fell in love with Alice Toklas, whom she considered her wife and who supported Gertrude’s provocative stream of conscious writing style. Toklas said she instantly knew Stein was a genius.
Stein’s book: The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, became an international bestseller, propelling Stein to world-wide fame.
Stein and Toklas’ salons helped propel many to fame including: Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, Maud Hunt Squire and Ethel Mars, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Marie Laurencin, Djuna Barnes, Sherwood Anderson, and Henri Matisse.
by Liz Bradbury, Painted 2022
Price: $165
Media: Watercolor painting with pen & ink, and collage
Frame Size (inches): 24 1/4 x 20 1/4
Painting Size: 18 x 14
Homage to The Golden Girls #1 SOLD
(Ran from September 14, 1985, to May 9, 1992)
Comedy sitcom that ran for 7 seasons.The brilliant cast members, who were all LGBTQ+ affirming in both real life and in character were:
Bea Arthur (1922-2009) as Dorothy Zbornak
Betty White (1922 - 2021) as Rose Nylund
Rue McClanahan (1934 - 2010) as Blanche Devereaux
Estelle Getty (1923 - 2008) as Sophia Petrillo
Even though the show concept was about women over 50, Golden Girls was far more LGBTQ+ friendly than shows about people in their 20s.
Storylines included Dorothy’s Lesbian friend who falls for Rose. Blanche’s Gay brother who marries his partner. Sophia’s son Phil’s cross-dressing. A transgender Miami politician. And several profoundly moving episodes about AIDS. before other shows mentioned it at all.
Each of the cast were personally and publicly supportive of the LGBTQ+ community including marriage equality and fundraising for those with HIV/AIDS.
by Liz Bradbury, Painted 2021
Price: $175 SOLD
Media: Watercolor painting with pen & ink, and collage
Frame Size (inches): 25 1/2 x 21
Painting Size: 19 1/2 x 15 1/4
Homage to The Golden Girls
(Ran from September 14, 1985, to May 9, 1992)
Comedy sitcom that ran for 7 seasons.The brilliant cast members, who were all LGBTQ+ affirming in both real life and in character were:
Bea Arthur (1922-2009) as Dorothy Zbornak
Betty White (1922 - 2021) as Rose Nylund
Rue McClanahan (1934 - 2010) as Blanche Devereaux
Estelle Getty (1923 - 2008) as Sophia Petrillo
Even though the show concept was about women over 50, Golden Girls was far more LGBTQ+ friendly than shows about people in their 20s.
Storylines included Dorothy’s Lesbian friend who falls for Rose. Blanche’s Gay brother who marries his partner. Sophia’s son Phil’s cross-dressing. A transgender Miami politician. And several profoundly moving episodes about AIDS. before other shows mentioned it at all.
Each of the cast were personally and publicly supportive of the LGBTQ+ community including marriage equality and fundraising for those with HIV/AIDS.
by Liz Bradbury, Painted 2022
Price: $160
Media: Watercolor painting with pen & ink, and collage
Frame Size (inches): 22 1/2 x 18
Painting Size: 16 x 12
Homage to Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman (circa 1822 - 1913) was an American abolitionist, an outstandingly brave hero, and a political activist. Tubman escaped slavery and subsequently made at least 13 long and dangerous missions to rescue approximately 70 captives who were imprisoned by slave owners in the South using the Underground Railroad to travel past the Mason-Dixon line to freedom in Canada. During the American Civil War, she served as an armed scout and spy for the Union Army in extremely dangerous area of both cities and the rural country-side. In her later years, Tubman was an activist in the movement for women's suffrage as a leader and speaker.
by Liz Bradbury, Painted in 2020
Price: $165
Media: Watercolor painting with pen & ink, and collage
Frame Size (inches): 20 3/4 x 17 3/4
Painting Size: 16 1/2 x 13 1/2
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Homage to Ida B Wells #3
Ida B. Wells (1862 – 1931) US investigative journalist, teacher, Civil Rights advocate especially for Black women and women’s suffrage. Anti-lynching activist, NAACP founder. Born in Mississippi during the Civil War to parents who were enslaved. Freed by the Emancipation Proclamation in 1865. Studied at Rust, Fisk, and LeMoyne-Owen colleges.She co-owned and wrote for many newspapers in several cities, condemning racial segregation, inequality, and discrimination. She worked to document the magnitude and savagery of lynching often solely motivated by greed as a reaction of white business owners to the loss of revenue to Black business.
“The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.
by Liz Bradbury, Painted in 2022
Price: $165
Media: Watercolor painting with pen & ink, and collage
Frame Size: 23 x 18 1/2, Painting Size: 15 1/2 x 11 1/4
Homage to James Baldwin SOLD
James Baldwin (1924 – 1987) American writer and Civil Rights activist. Openly Gay. In 1948, at 24, Baldwin moved to France to escape the racism and homophobia of the US. In 1949, the 1st issue of Zero (magazine): Review of Literature and Art, featured Baldwin’s essay, “Everybody’s Protest Novel” that Baldwin’s criticism of Richard Wright’s novel Native Son.
Baldwin gained celebrity and critical acclaim for his essays, 19 novels, plays, and poems. His first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, was published in 1953. His semi-autobiographical novel “Giovanni's Room” (1956) was about an American man living in Paris and his attraction to other men. Early in his career Baldwin outed himself publicly so that “no one could ever blackmail him”.
by Liz Bradbury, Painted 2022
Price: $150 SOLD
Media: Watercolor painting with pen & ink, and collage
Frame Size (inches):15 x 15
Painting Size: 12 x 12
Homage to Jane Addams
Jane Addams (1860 to 1935) American settlement founder, suffragist, public health reformer, social worker, sociologist, outspoken peace activist, author, and Lesbian. Addams graduated from Rockford Female Seminary in 1881, where she met Ellen Starr. In 1888, she and Starr (they had fallen in love) visited a settlement house in London. They vowed to start one in the US. They founded Hull House in Chicago. It hosted 2000 mostly immigrant people every week. It had classes, an art gallery, a public kitchen; a gymnasium, a swimming pool, a music school, a circulating library, an employment bureau, and other resources. Addams and Starr’s relationship cooled. Addams met Mary Rozet Smith to supported Addams's work. They fell in love and stayed together for 40 years, until Smith’s death in 1934.
by Liz Bradbury, Painted 2021
Price: $145
Media: Watercolor painting with pen & ink, and collage
Frame Size (inches): 15 1/4 x
Painting Size: 10 1/2 x 8
Homage to Janis Joplin #1 SOLD
Janis Joplin (1943 – 1970) American singer and musician, born in Port Arthur, Texas. Early influences included Bessie Smith. She began singing blues and folk music in High School where she was taunted because she was NOT a racist. One of the most successful and widely known female rock stars of her era. Appeared at the Monterey Pop Festival (1967), and at Woodstock. Rolling Stone ranked Joplin number 28 among 100 greatest artists of all time. “I hear a rumor that somebody in San Francisco is spreading stories that I'm a dyke. You go back there and find out who it is and tell them that Janis says she's gotten it on with a couple of thousand cats in her life and a few hundred chicks and see what they can do with that!” Joplin died of a heroin overdose in 1970 at 27.
by Liz Bradbury, Painted 2022
Price: $165 SOLD
Media: Watercolor painting with pen & ink, and collage
Frame Size (inches): 20 3/8 x 17 3/8
Painting Size: 13 3/8 x 10 3/8
Homage to Janis Joplin #2
Janis Joplin (1943 – 1970) American singer and musician, born in Port Arthur, Texas. Early influences included Bessie Smith. She began singing blues and folk music in High School where she was taunted because she was NOT a racist. One of the most successful and widely known female rock stars of her era. Appeared at the Monterey Pop Festival (1967), and at Woodstock. Rolling Stone ranked Joplin number 28 among 100 greatest artists of all time. “I hear a rumor that somebody in San Francisco is spreading stories that I'm a dyke. You go back there and find out who it is and tell them that Janis says she's gotten it on with a couple of thousand cats in her life and a few hundred chicks and see what they can do with that!” Joplin died of a heroin overdose in 1970 at 27.
by Liz Bradbury, Painted 2023, Price: $160
Media: Watercolor painting with pen & ink, and collage
Frame Size (inches): 20 3/8 x 17 3/8
Painting Size: 13 3/8 x 10 3/8
Homage to Bessie Coleman
Bessie Coleman1892 – 1926 - 1st Black woman and first Native American (of any country) to hold a pilot license. Both her parents were Black, her father had Cherokee grandparents. No US flying instructor would teach a woman or a Black person to be a pilot in 1919. Her brother returned from WW1 France, he related that Black women in France not only had rights. but they were allowed to fly airplanes! Coleman went to study flying in France. She died tragically at age 34 in an accident during a stunt show when a wrench fell into the planes steering gear. Five thousand mourners attended Coleman’s memorial service in Orlando. 15,000 people attended her funeral in Chicago, including Ida B. Wells. The first release of the 2nd round of American Women quarters features Coleman.
by Liz Bradbury, Painted 2023
Price: $150
Media: Watercolor painting with pen & ink, and collage
Frame Size (inches): 12 x 14, Painting Size: 9 x 12
Homage to Joesphine Baker
Joesphine Baker (1906-1975) - WW2 French Resistance Spy, American-Born French Dancer, Singer, Entertainer, Civil Rights Activist, Bisexual.
The only woman speaker at the 1963 Civil Rights March on Washington, where Martin Luther King gave his “I Have A Dream” speech.
She began professionally dancing at 14. At 15, went to NYC in the all Black, Broadway revue - “Shuffle Along”. Joined the La Revue Négre at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris in 1925, where her unique comic dancing style made her an immediate success (at 19). Toured Europe as a headliner and starred in the Folies Bergere. Became the first Black person to star in a movie.
During WW2, worked for allied counter intelligence. Risked her life hiding soldiers and resistance fighters in her home. Gathered secret information from German, Italian and Japanese officials at embassies, ministries, and night clubs.
After Martin Luther King’s assassination, Coretta Scott King asked Baker to return to the US to lead the Civil Rights Movement. Baker considered, but declined because France was her home and she needed to be with her many adopted children.
by Liz Bradbury, Painted 2022
Price: $145
Media: Watercolor painting with pen & ink, and collage
Frame Size (inches) : 10 3/4 x 15 1/4, Painting Size: 8 x 10 1/2
Homage to John Lewis #2
John Lewis (1940 – 2020) was one of the most significant US civil rights activists and the only primary Civil Rights figure to become a federal elected official. He was one of the earliest participants in the 1960 Nashville sit-inss. In 1960 due to his participation in an anti-segregation "Freedom Ride,” was imprisoned for 40 days in the notorious Mississippi State PenitentiaryAs a "Big Six" leader who organized the 1963 March on Washington, where Martin Luther King gave his, “I have a Dream” speech, Lewis spoke, just before King. March 7, 1965 – "Bloody Sunday" – Lewis led over 600 marchers across Alabama’s Edmund Pettus Bridge. Mounted police beat the demonstrators with nightsticks. Lewis's skull was fractured, scaring him for life. Democrat Lewis was elected to Congress representing Atlanta - from 1987 until his death in 2020. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011. He supported all progressive causes including LGBTQ rights. He endorsed Joe Biden and recommended he pick a Woman of Color as his running mate.
by Liz Bradbury, Painted 2022
Price: $165
Media: Watercolor painting with pen & ink, and collage
Frame Size (inches): 20 1/4 x 16 1/4
Painting Size: 13 3/8 x 10 1/2
Homage to Keith Haring #2 SOLD
Keith Haring (1958 – 1990) Born in Kutztown, PA. Keith Haring is considered one of the top 10 American Master Artists in US history - Considered a pop artist based on his accessible graffiti style drawings. Haring moved to NYC in 1978. Developed his animated monochromatic outline style of illustration-like art in public venues. Haring used his drawings and sculpture, to advocate for AIDS awareness, safe sex, an end to apartheid, the fight against poverty, LGBT civil rights, and to encourage people to come out of the closet. He produced more than 50 public artworks, installations, and murals around the world. Of his most recognizable images is his coming out image for Oct 11 - National Coming Out Day. His stylized Radiant Baby served as his signature on many works. Keith Haring died from AIDS complications in 1990.
by Liz Bradbury, Painting done: 2022
Price: $165 SOLD
Media: Watercolor painting with pen & ink, and collage
Frame Size (inches): 23 x 19, Painting Size: 17 1/4 x 11 1/2
Homage to Keith Haring #3 SOLD
Keith Haring (1958 – 1990) Born in Kutztown, PA. Keith Haring is considered one of the top 10 American Master Artists in US history - Considered a pop artist based on his accessible graffiti style drawings. Haring moved to NYC in 1978. Developed his animated monochromatic outline style of illustration-like art in public venues. Haring used his drawings and sculpture, to advocate for AIDS awareness, safe sex, an end to apartheid, the fight against poverty, LGBT civil rights, and to encourage people to come out of the closet. He produced more than 50 public artworks, installations, and murals around the world. Of his most recognizable images is his coming out image for Oct 11 - National Coming Out Day. His stylized Radiant Baby served as his signature on many works. Keith Haring died from AIDS complications in 1990.
by Liz Bradbury, Painting done: 2022
Price: $165 SOLD
Media: Watercolor painting with pen & ink, and collage
Frame Size (inches): 23 x 19, Painting Size: 17 1/4 x 11 1/2
Loie Fuller
Price: $145
Media: Watercolor painting with pen & ink, and collage
Frame Size (inches): 16 x 22
Painting Size: 11 x 16 1/2
Homage to Loie Fuller (1862 – 1928) — Born in Chicago. she was a dancer, inventor, the embodiment of the Art Nouveau movement, and an out Lesbian.
As a young adult she choreographed and performed dances in burlesque as a skirt dancer. Fuller created and performed the Serpentine and Fire Dances in 100 yard silk costumes illuminated by multi-coloured lighting of her own design and patent. She danced as the Electric Fairy in the Folies Bergère. At the Paris Exhibition (1900), she danced in her own theater displaying a mesmerizing interplay of movement and lighting by dancing alone in a vortex of enormous, spectacularly lit swirls of spiraling skirts. Fuller’s warm reception in Paris persuaded her to remain in France, becoming one of the leading revolutionaries in the arts.
Homage to Pennsylvania Secretary of Health, Dr Rachel Levine
Rachel Leland Levine (Born 1957) American pediatrician and a four-star admiral in the US Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. She has served as the United States assistant secretary for health since March 26, 2021. Levine graduated from Harvard and the Tulane University School of Medicine and completed a residency at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in Manhattan. She is a professor of pediatrics and psychiatry at the Penn State College of Medicine, and previously served as the Pennsylvania Physician General from 2015 to 2017 and as Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Health from 2017 to 2021. Levine is one of only a few openly Transgender government officials in the US. The first to hold an office that requires Senate confirmation. In 2021, Levine became the first openly Transgender four-star officer in the nation's eight uniformed services.
by Liz Bradbury
Year painted: 2020
Media: Watercolor, collage, and ink pen, one-of-a-kind original painting that is matted and framed.
Size of frame: height 20 1/4 inches, width 24 1/4 inches
Price: $185 (plus tax)
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