Dagmar Wilson
American anti-nuclear testing activist, artist, and illustrator of children’s books
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Maria Helena Vieira da Silva
In spite of the fact she spent nearly her entire adult life living and working outside her country of birth, Maria Helena Vieira da Silva is today considered one of Portugal’s most important female artists.
Olive Pink
It was art that led her to her second passion, anthropology and the welfare of Aboriginal people.
Mary Merrifield
Mary Philadelphia Merrifield was a self-taught artist, colour researcher, amateur scientist, and writer.
Maria Sibylla Merian
German entomologist, naturalist and scientific illustrator.
Lydia Shackleton
Irish botanical artist, teacher, and poet
Evelyn Healy
Australian artist, community activist and peace activist
Clara Tice
Clara Tice is known as the “Queen of Greenwich Village” due to the role her erotic and revolutionary illustrations played in the Bohemian/modernist scene of Greenwich Village during the 1910s and 1920s. Her illustrations, many of which depicted nude women and animals, simultaneously caused controversy and were celebrated. Tice exercised her artistic ability in all of the careers she pursued throughout her life, ranging from set designer to children’s book editor.
Edith Blake
Irish botanical illustrator and writer
Violet Oakley
American illustrator and designer