Lynn Johnston

Since 1979, when For Better or For Worse first appeared, Canadian artist Lynn Johnston (b. 1947) has been chronicling the lives of the Patterson family

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Mabel Dwight

After years of successful work as an illustrator in New York, she began making lithographs in 1927, at the age of fifty-two. In 1933 she participated with the Contemporary Print Group in creating two influential portfolios of realist prints.

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Dr Anne Hagopian

Anne Hagopian van Buren (1927-2008) did computing work at the Harvard Observatory from c.1945-c.1950 as an undergraduate student in astronomy at Radcliffe College.

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Kathy Caraccio

Collage artist and master printer Kathy Caraccio opened her own thriving New York printing studio in 1977, where she has collaborated with such artists as Emma Amos, Robert Kipniss, Louise Nevelson, and Adam Pitt.

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Dr Stanisława Nikodym

Stanisława Nikodym was the first Polish woman to obtain the degree of Ph.D. in mathematics. She wrote papers on analysis, some with her husband Otton Nikodym. She is also known as a painter.

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Gertrude Fiske

Painter Gertrude Fiske was a co-founder of the Guild of Boston Artists in 1914 and the Boston Society of Etchers in 1917. She was also the first woman named to the Massachusetts Art Commission, as well as a successful golfer.

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