In Episode Ten we shared Sue Tilley’s fun-filled life story, and now it’s time for you to hear from Sue herself! Host Grace Anna speaks with the lovely Sue Tilley about her time modeling for Lucian Freud, her portrait’s record breaking sale, and her adventure packed life at large. We are so excited to be able to share Sue’s own words with you.

Listen to ArtMuse’s episode on Sue Tilley, of Lucian Freud’s Benefits Supervisor Sleeping.

Part Two picks back up on Gala’s story and honors Gala’s complex legacy. Whether critical of Gala’s behavior or not, one cannot deny that she was a force to be reckoned with. Gala knew the life she wanted to live, and was unwilling to let her size, gender, two world wars, and any force opposing her, get in her way.

Behind every great man, is an even greater woman, and this sentiment couldn’t be more true than in the case of Salvador Dali. Hidden in the shadows of Dali’s massive legacy, is the woman who can be credited with making Dali a household name and one of the strongest forces of nature to ever walk this earth.  Gala was the the wife and companion of Salvador Dali for over 50 years, who not only inspired Dali’s greatest works (many of which feature her image), but managed Dali’s entire career,...

Listen to ArtMuse’s episode on Anna McNeill Whistler, not only the mother of James McNeill Whistler, but also his artistic manager and agent.

Listen to ArtMuse’s episode on Fillide Melandroni. Fillide was the most consistent model that Caravaggio ever used and became an important figure in his life. She could pose as Saint Catherine one day and Judith the next, but Fillide herself was just as fierce as the biblical heroines she modeled as; a fearlessly confident prostitute with a crooked hand and gaze that could pierce as sharply as a sword.Fillide’s appearance in Caravaggio’s works coincided with the launch of the style he is best...

Andrew Wyeth’s Christina’s World is one of the most iconic paintings in the history of American art. It was Christina’s World that turned Andrew Wyeth into a household name and claimed him one of the best American realist painters. But who was Christina? And what kind of world did she live in? Listen to ArtMuse’s episode on Anna Christina Olson and the world she lived out her noble life in; the small coastal town of Cushing, Maine. As a young child, Christina showed signs of an undiagnosed...

If I were to ask you who the world’s most famous modern artist is, chances are that you would answer Pablo Picasso. But if I were to ask you who was the mastermind behind Picasso’s most revered works, how many of you would know her name? Listen to ArtMuse’s episode on Dora Maar. Known as the woman with a thousand faces, Picasso painted Dora Maar countless times, most famously as his Weeping Woman. What is lesser known is that many of Picasso’s greatest works, like Guernica, would have never...

Listen to ArtMuse’s episode on Elizabeth Siddall, a 19th century English artist, poet, model, and the heart and soul of the Pre Raphaelite Brotherhood.

Listen to ArtMuse’s episode on Emilie Flöge, a Vienese fashion designer, independent business woman, forward thinking creative, and the most important person in Gustav Klimt’s life.

Listen to ArtMuse’s episode on Victorine Meurent and Laure; the two superstars of Olympia. Victorine was not just an artist’s model, she was also a musician, and an established painter herself, who showed her work at the Salon six times. Painted just 15 years after the abolition of territorial slavery, Laure represented a pioneering age of Paris, in which newly freed black members of society were becoming an integral part of the working class.

Listen to Part Two of ArtMuse’s Two Part episode on Lisa Gheradini, a tried and true Florentine noblewoman living through the peak of the Italian Renaissance. Her life’s story includes romance, painful loss, scandal, mystery, and political upheaval. But more than anything else, it is the story of a convivial, courageous and independent woman, who mothered children, weathered immense losses, and lived her life out with nobility and honor.

Listen to Part One of ArtMuse’s Two Part episode on Lisa Gheradini, a tried and true Florentine noblewoman living through the peak of the Italian Renaissance. Her life’s story includes romance, painful loss, scandal, mystery, and political upheaval. But more than anything else, it is the story of a convivial, courageous and independent woman, who mothered children, weathered immense losses, and lived her life out with nobility and honor.

Check out our trailer for Season 01 of ArtMuse. ArtMuse aims to reshape the ways in which we interpret well-known works of art by paying dues to the women whose images have been immortalized but whose names and stories have been wrongfully overlooked. Each episode will focus our attention on the female muse, sharing their important lives and legacy.

Introducing Season 01 of ArtMuse! Listen to our teaser here!