Louise Howland Cox
American painter
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Margaret Bullock
Energetic and talented, Margaret Bullock was a pioneer in several respects. As a journalist and parliamentary correspondent she gained entrance into a predominantly male profession. She also played a pivotal role in the nineteenth century women’s movement at both local and national levels.
Catherine Spencer Bower
A legend in New Zealand art circles, she established a foundation to finance artists’ scholarships, to be funded from the sale of art in her estate. Her work is represented in both New Zealand and overseas public and private collections.
Rhona Haszard
New Zealand painter
Frances Hunt
Art critics and historians have identified Frances Hunt as an able practitioner of the conservative tradition of landscape painting, which was popular in Auckland in the 1920s and 1930s.
Flora Scales
She painted mainly small, almost abstract landscapes, portraits and flower studies. Humble, unambitious and seemingly self-sufficent, she nevertheless had considerable influence on New Zealand painting.
Louise Henderson
Painter whose long and prodigious career left a huge and influential body of work, which is represented in all major public and many private collections in New Zealand.
Kate Greenaway
English artist whose drawings are distinctive for their individual charm and quaint humor.
Frances Simpson Stevens
In her early 20s, Frances Simpson Stevens was the lone American at the center of the Futurist movement. Today, however, only one of her paintings has been preserved and few people know her name.
Hermine David
Often diminished to a footnote in the life of her husband, the painter Jules Pascin, Hermine David was an artist in her own right who gained recognition in the early twentieth century. She worked in a variety of media and styles, including watercolor, pastel, charcoal, drypoint, and lithography.