Katharine Plunkett
Irish botanical and landscape painter
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Doreen Blumhardt
Doreen Blumhardt was the one of the most important figures in New Zealand’s arts and crafts world in the second half of the twentieth century.
Dagmar Wilson
American anti-nuclear testing activist, artist, and illustrator of children’s books
Sally Mann
Despite a career that has been mired in controversy, Sally Mann remains one of America’s premier living photographers.
Florine Stettheimer
A pioneer artist from early twentieth-century New York, Florine Stettheimer advanced new possibilities in painting for women artists.
Hannah Ryggen
Hannah Ryggen is a vital and unique figure in the story of modern art, particularly within the Nordic countries.
Josefa de Óbidos
Josefa de Óbidos was the most celebrated female artists in 17th century Portugal.
Judy Chicago
Judy Chicago was one of the pioneers of Feminist art in the 1970s, a movement that endeavored to reflect women’s lives, call attention to women’s roles as artists, and alter the conditions under which contemporary art was produced and received.
Laura Aguilar
Using photography as a tool for the empowerment of her community, Laura Aguilar provided new possibilities for the depictions of subjects and bodies that had traditionally been excluded from art history.
Laura Wheeler Waring
With Edmonia Lewis, Meta Vaux Warrick, and Augusta Savage, Waring is one of the foremost Black American female artists of the first half of the twentieth century.