Visionary Artists, Parallel Lives -Gladys Mgudlandlu

13 page 13 Maggie Laubser Portrait of Mrs Pretorius oil on cardboard 47,5 by 39 cm private collection Marion Arnold (1996: 121) observes that a first generation of white South African women artists left no evidence to suggest that they regarded their art works as transgressive explorations of female status and identity. It was only a more adventurous Modernist generation that claimed the right to be artists despite being female and who were given licence by society to be eccentric, assertive or non-stereotypical women. One such Modernist was Maggie Laubser. Brenda Schmahmann (2004) Through the Looking Glass: Representations of Self by South African Women Artists , Johannesburg: David Krut, page 10.