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 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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Ethel McClellan Plummer

The first woman to publish a cartoon in the New Yorker, Ethel McClellan Plummer made cover designs and illustrations in the 1920s and 1930s for magazines of sophisticated fashion such as Vogue and Vanity Fair, as well as publications with broader appeal such as Life, Women’s Home Companion, Shadowland, and the New York Tribune.

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Emma Amos

In her work, artist Emma Amos often addresses issues of feminism, politics, culture, and her own personal history.

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