Uploaded August 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
Why has Sandra Maas paired this lithograph with Shakespeare's greatest heroine?
Watch this Virtual SDMA + SDSS Performance to find out and be sure to check back every Tuesday at 6:00 p.m. PST for more virtual performances in collaboration with local arts institutions.
"What I admire in this stunning work from the early 1900s is the strength, determination, and confidence I see in this beautiful woman. They are the same characteristics that define Rosalind, the radical heroine, in Shakespeare's "As You Like It." To me, the artwork represents powerful femininity, something Rosalind clearly understood even as she disguised herself as a man. Rosalind is not just a gender bender in Shakespeare's play, she's also a gender buster way ahead of her time. Remarkably, the gender issues she championed are still relevant and still a work in progress more than 400 years later."—Sandra Maas
Virtual SDMA+ The San Diego Shakespeare Society is a series of video performances featuring monologues from great works of Shakespeare in response to selections from the SDMA collection, premiering every other Tuesday at 6:00 p.m.
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The San Diego Museum of Art traditionally works with The San Diego Shakespeare Society throughout the year featuring seasonal SDMA ArtStops. The San Diego Shakespeare Society performs year round with the goal of demonstrating the relevance, immediacy, and accessibility of Shakespeare’s works for the general public.⠀
Featured: Albert Belleroche (AKA Albert de Belleroche). "Woman's Head in Profile," 1906?. Lithograph. Gift of George C. Kenney II and Olga-Kitsakos Kenney. 2000.217.
William Shakespeare. Rosalind in "As You Like It," Act V, Scene 4, 1599.
SDMArt.org/virtual-sdma-plus & sandiegoshakespearesociety.org
Why has Sandra Maas paired this lithograph with Shakespeare's greatest heroine?
Watch this Virtual SDMA + SDSS Performance to find out and be sure to check back every Tuesday at 6:00 p.m. PST for more virtual performances in collaboration with local arts institutions.
"What I admire in this stunning work from the early 1900s is the strength, determination, and confidence I see in this beautiful woman. They are the same characteristics that define Rosalind, the radical heroine, in Shakespeare's "As You Like It." To me, the artwork represents powerful femininity, something Rosalind clearly understood even as she disguised herself as a man. Rosalind is not just a gender bender in Shakespeare's play, she's also a gender buster way ahead of her time. Remarkably, the gender issues she championed are still relevant and still a work in progress more than 400 years later."—Sandra Maas
Virtual SDMA+ The San Diego Shakespeare Society is a series of video performances featuring monologues from great works of Shakespeare in response to selections from the SDMA collection, premiering every other Tuesday at 6:00 p.m.
⠀
The San Diego Museum of Art traditionally works with The San Diego Shakespeare Society throughout the year featuring seasonal SDMA ArtStops. The San Diego Shakespeare Society performs year round with the goal of demonstrating the relevance, immediacy, and accessibility of Shakespeare’s works for the general public.⠀
Featured: Albert Belleroche (AKA Albert de Belleroche). "Woman's Head in Profile," 1906?. Lithograph. Gift of George C. Kenney II and Olga-Kitsakos Kenney. 2000.217.
William Shakespeare. Rosalind in "As You Like It," Act V, Scene 4, 1599.
SDMArt.org/virtual-sdma-plus & sandiegoshakespearesociety.org
