List of 20th century women artists
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Before 1880
- Elenore AbbottElenore AbbottElenore Abbott was an American book illustrator, scenic designer, and artist. Born Elenore Plaisted in Lincoln, Maine, she studied at several schools in Philadelphia and Paris...
(1875–1935), illustrator - Lizzy AnsinghLizzy AnsinghMaria Elisabeth Georgina Ansingh , or Lizzy Ansingh, was a Dutch painter. She belonged to a school of female painters called the Amsterdamse Joffers....
(1875–1959), painter - Lucy Angeline BaconLucy BaconLucy Angeline Bacon was a Californian artist who studied in Paris under the famous Impressionist, Camille Pissarro...
(1857–1932), painter - Alice Pike BarneyAlice Pike BarneyAlice Pike Barney was an American painter. She was active in Washington, D.C. and worked to make Washington into a center of the arts....
(1857–1931), painter - Alice BoughtonAlice BoughtonAlice Boughton was an early 20th century American photographer known for her photographs of many literary and theatrical figures of her time...
(c. 1866–1943), photographer - Marie BracquemondMarie BracquemondMarie Bracquemond was a French Impressionist artist described by Gustave Geffroy in 1894 as one of "les trois grandes dames" of Impressionism alongside Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt. However, her frequent omission from books on women artists indicate the success of her husband, Félix...
(1841–1916), painter - Romaine BrooksRomaine BrooksRomaine Brooks, born Beatrice Romaine Goddard , was an American painter who worked mostly in Paris and Capri. She specialized in portraiture and used a subdued palette dominated by the color gray...
(1874–1970) painter - Mary CassattMary CassattMary Stevenson Cassatt was an American painter and printmaker. She lived much of her adult life in France, where she first befriended Edgar Degas and later exhibited among the Impressionists...
(1844–1926), painter, printmaker - Nellie CharlieNellie CharlieNellie Charlie was a Mono Lake Paiute - Kucadikadi basketmaker associated with Yosemite National Park. She was born in Lee Vining, California, the daughter of tribal headman Pete Jim, and his wife Patsy, also a basketmaker. She married Young Charlie, a Mono Lake Paiute - Kucadikadi man from...
(1867–1965), Mono Lake Paiute basket weaver - Katherine Sophie DreierKatherine Sophie DreierKatherine Sophie Dreier was an artist and a patron of the arts. Her paintings were abstract with spiritual emphasis, and she was a member of the Abstraction-Création group.-Birth:...
(1877–1952), painter - Dulah Marie EvansDulah Marie EvansDulah Marie Evans, later Dulah Marie Evans Krehbiel was an American painter, photographer, printmaker, illustrator, and etcher.-Education:...
(1875–1951) (painter, photographer) - Meta Vaux Warrick FullerMeta Vaux Warrick FullerMeta Vaux Warrick Fuller was an African American artist. She is best known as the first African American artist to make art celebrating Afrocentric themes. A multi-talented artist who created poetry and paintings, she is mainly known as a sculptor who explored her African-American roots...
(1877–1968) (sculptor, painter, poet) - Grandma MosesGrandma MosesAnna Mary Robertson Moses , better known as "Grandma Moses", was a renowned American folk artist. She is often cited as an example of an individual successfully beginning a career in the arts at an advanced age. Although her family and friends called her either "Mother Moses" or "Grandma Moses,"...
(1860–1961) (painter) - Elizabeth Shippen GreenElizabeth Shippen GreenElizabeth Shippen Green was an American illustrator. She illustrated children's books and worked for many years for Harper's Magazine....
(1871–1954) (painter, illustrator) - Elena GuroElena GuroElena Genrikhovna Guro was a Russian Futurist painter, playwright, poet, and writer of fiction.-Early life:Guro was born in St. Petersburg on January 10, 1877. Her father was Genrikh Stepanovich Guro, an officer in the Imperial Russian Army of French descent. Her mother Anna Mikhailovna...
(1877-1913) (painter, writer) - Gwen JohnGwen JohnGwendolen Mary John was a Welsh artist who worked in France for most of her career. She is noted for her still lifes and for her portraits, especially of anonymous female sitters...
(1876–1939) (painter) - Frances Benjamin JohnstonFrances Benjamin JohnstonFrances "Fannie" Benjamin Johnston was one of the earliest American female photographers and photojournalists.- Life :...
(1864–1952) (photographer) - Gertrude KäsebierGertrude KäsebierGertrude Käsebier was one of the most influential American photographers of the early 20th century. She was known for her evocative images of motherhood, her powerful portraits of Native Americans and her promotion of photography as a career for women.-Early life :Käsebier was born Gertrude...
(1852–1934) (photographer) - Louisa Keyser (Datsolalee) (ca. 1829/1850—1925), WashoeWashoe peopleThe Washoe are a Great Basin tribe of Native Americans, living in California and Nevada. The name "Washoe" is derived from the autonym waashiw meaning "people from here" in the Washo language .-Territory:Washoe people have lived in the Great Basin for at least the last 6000 years...
basket weaver - Kitty Lange KiellandKitty Lange Kielland-Early life and training:Kielland was born to an affluent family in Stavanger, the older sister of Alexander Kielland. Kielland's mutual interactions with her brother would be important to shaping her as an artist. Although she received some training in drawing and painting, it was not until she...
1843–1914) (painter) - Laura KnightLaura KnightDame Laura Knight, DBE was an English Impressionist painter known for painting the world of London's theatre, ballet and circus.-Early life and education:...
(1877–1970) (painter) - Käthe KollwitzKäthe KollwitzKäthe Kollwitz was a German painter, printmaker, and sculptor whose work offered an eloquent and often searing account of the human condition in the first half of the 20th century...
(1867–1945), printmaker, sculptor, painter - Anna Coleman LaddAnna Coleman LaddAnna Coleman Watts Ladd was an American sculptress in Manchester, Massachusetts, who devoted her time throughout World War I to soldiers who were disfigured....
(1878–1939) (sculptor) - Séraphine LouisSéraphine LouisSéraphine Louis, known as "Séraphine de Senlis" , was a French painter in the naïve style. Self-taught, she was inspired by her religious faith and by stained-glass church windows and other religious art...
(1864–1942) (painter) - Paula Modersohn-BeckerPaula Modersohn-BeckerPaula Modersohn-Becker was a German painter and one of the most important representatives of early expressionism. In a brief career, cut short by an embolism at the age of 31, she created a number of groundbreaking images of great intensity.-Life and work:Paula Becker was born and grew up in...
(1876–1907) (painter) - Blanche Hoschedé MonetBlanche Hoschedé MonetBlanche Hoschedé Monet is a French painter who was both the step daughter and the daughter-in law of Claude Monet. She was born in Paris, November 10, 1865 and died in Giverny in 1947.-Biography:...
(1865–1947) (painter) - Gabriele MünterGabriele MünterGabriele Münter was a German expressionist painter who was at the forefront of the Munich avant-garde in the early 20th century. Artists and writers associated with German Expressionism shared a rebellious attitude toward the materialism and mores of German imperial and bourgeois society...
(1877–1962) (painter) - Iris Nampeyo (c. 1860–1942), potter, ceramic artist
- Violet OakleyViolet OakleyViolet Oakley was an American artist known for her murals and her work in stained glass. She was a student and later a faculty member at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.-Life:...
(1874–1961), muralist, stained glass - Lilla Cabot PerryLilla Cabot PerryLilla Cabot Perry was an American artist who worked in the Impressionist style, rendering portraits and landscapes in the free form manner of her mentor, Claude Monet. Perry was an early advocate of the French Impressionist style and contributed to its reception in the United States...
(1848–1933), painter - Helene SchjerfbeckHelene SchjerfbeckHelene Schjerfbeck was a Finnish painter. She is most widely known for her realist works and self-portraits, and less well known for her landscapes and still lifes...
(1862–1946) (painter) - Vinnie ReamVinnie ReamLavinia Ellen Ream Hoxie was an American sculptor. Her most famous work was the statue of Abraham Lincoln in the U.S. Capitol rotunda.-Early life:...
(1847-1914), sculptor - Jessie Willcox SmithJessie Willcox SmithJessie Willcox Smith was a United States illustrator famous for her work in magazines such as Ladies Home Journal and for her illustrations for children's books....
(1863–1935) (painter, illustrator) - Sr. Maria Stanisia (1878–1967) (painter)
- Juliet ThompsonJuliet ThompsonJuliet Thompson was an American Bahá'í, painter, and disciple of `Abdu'l-Bahá. She is perhaps best remembered for her book The Diary of Juliet Thompson though she also painted a life-sized portrait of `Abdu'l-Bahá.-Early life and education:...
(1873–1956), painter - Suzanne ValadonSuzanne ValadonSuzanne Valadon was a French painter born Marie-Clémentine Valadon at Bessines-sur-Gartempe, Haute-Vienne, France. In 1894, Valadon became the first woman painter admitted to the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts...
(1865–1938) (painter) - Nellie WalkerNellie WalkerNellie Verne Walker , was an American sculptor best known for her statue of James Harlan in the National Statuary Hall Collection in the United States Capitol, Washington D.C.-Early years:...
(1874–1973) (sculptor) - Candace WheelerCandace WheelerCandace Wheeler , often credited as the "mother" of interior design, was one of America's first woman interior and textile designers. She is famous for helping to open the field of interior design to women, making decorative art affordable, and for encouraging a new style of American design...
(1827–1923), interior and textile designer - Marianne von WerefkinMarianne von WerefkinMarianne von Werefkin , born Marianna Wladimirowna Werewkina , was a Russian-Swiss Expressionist painter.-Life and career:...
(1860–1938) (painter)
1880–1889
- Rowena Meeks AbdyRowena Meeks AbdyRowena Meeks Abdy was an American painter who flourished in Northern California in the early 20th century. Working in oil, watercolour and charcoal, she achieved prominence in the en plein air painting school and is held in several permanent collections of significant museums...
(1887–1945) (painter) - Imogen CunninghamImogen CunninghamImogen Cunningham was an American photographer known for her photography of botanicals, nudes and industry.-Life and career:...
(1883–1976) (photographer) - Sonia DelaunaySonia DelaunaySonia Delaunay was a Jewish-French artist who, with her husband Robert Delaunay and others, cofounded the Orphism art movement, noted for its use of strong colours and geometric shapes. Her work extends to painting, textile design and stage set design...
(1885–1979) (painter) - Natalia GoncharovaNatalia GoncharovaNatalia Sergeevna Goncharova was a Russian avant-garde artist , painter, costume designer, writer, illustrator, and set designer. Her great-aunt was Natalia Pushkina, wife of the poet Alexander Pushkin.-Life and work:...
(1881–1962) (painter) - Aleksandra EksterAleksandra EksterAleksandra Aleksandrovna Ekster was a Russian-French painter and designer.-Biography:-Childhood:...
(1882–1949) (painter) - Sigrid HjerténSigrid HjerténSigrid Hjertén , was a Swedish modernist painter. Hjertén is considered a major figure in Swedish modernism. Periodically she was highly productive and she participated in 106 exhibitions...
(1885–1948) (painter) - Hannah HöchHannah HöchHannah Höch was a German Dada artist. She is best known for her work of the Weimar period, when she was one of the originators of photomontage.-Biography:...
(1889–1978) (photographer) - Malvina HoffmanMalvina HoffmanMalvina Hoffman , was an American sculptor and author, well known for her life-size bronze sculptures of people...
(1887–1966) (sculptor) - Marie LaurencinMarie LaurencinMarie Laurencin was a French painter and printmaker. -Biography:Laurencin was born in Paris, where she was raised by her mother and lived much of her life. At 18, she studied porcelain painting in Sèvres...
(1883–1956) (painter, printmaker) - Georgia O'KeeffeGeorgia O'KeeffeGeorgia Totto O'Keeffe was an American artist.Born near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, O'Keeffe first came to the attention of the New York art community in 1916, several decades before women had gained access to art training in America’s colleges and universities, and before any of its women artists...
(1887–1986) (painter) - Clara Elsene PeckClara Elsene PeckClara Elsene Peck was an American illustrator and painter known for her illustrations of women and children in the early 20th century. Peck received her arts education from the Minneapolis School of Fine Arts and was employed as a magazine illustrator from 1906-1940...
(1883–1968) (painter, illustrator) - Anne RyanAnne RyanAnne Ryan belonged to the early generation of New York School Abstract Expressionist artists. Her first contact with the New York Avant-garde came in 1941 when she joined the Atelier 17, a famous printmaking workshop that the British artist Stanley William Hayter had established in Paris in the...
(1889–1954) (painter) - Zinaida SerebriakovaZinaida SerebriakovaZinaida Yevgenyevna Serebriakova was among the first female Russian painters of distinction.-Family:Zinaida Serebriakova was born on the estate of Neskuchnoye near Kharkov into one of Russia's most refined and artistic families.She belonged to the artistic Benois family...
(1884–1967) (painter) - Henrietta ShoreHenrietta ShoreHenrietta Shore was a post-impressionist Canadian painter who exhibited contemporaneously with Georgia O'Keeffe and influenced the photographer Edward Weston. Her media were oils, murals, watercolors, and lithographs....
(1880–1963) (painter) - Sophie Taeuber-ArpSophie Taeuber-ArpSophie Taeuber-Arp was a Swiss artist, painter and sculptor. Born in Davos, Switzerland, Sophie Täuber began her art studies in her homeland, at the School of Applied Arts in St. Gallen...
(1889–1943) (painter) - Lucy TellesLucy TellesLucy Parker Telles was a Mono Lake Paiute - Kucadikadi and Southern Sierra Miwok Native American basket weaver.-Background:...
(ca. 1885–1955), Mono Lake Paiute-Yosemite Miwok basket weaver - Doris UlmannDoris UlmannDoris Ulmann was an American photographer, best known for her dignified portraits of the people of Appalachia, particularly craftsmen and musicians such as Jean Ritchie's family, made between 1928 and 1934.-Life and career:...
(1882–1934) (photographer) - Mary Agnes YerkesMary Agnes YerkesMary Agnes Yerkes, , , was an American Impressionist painter, photographer and artisan. She was skilled in the mediums of oil, pastel and watercolor. Her professional career was cut short by the Great Depression, but she still continued to paint well into her nineties with a passion for her craft...
(1886–1989) (painter) - Marguerite ZorachMarguerite ZorachMarguerite Zorach was an American fauvist painter, textile artist, and graphic designer and was an early exponent of modernism in America. She won the 1920 Logan Medal of the Arts.-Life:...
(née Thompson) (1887-1968) (painter)
1890–1899
- Berenice AbbottBerenice AbbottBerenice Abbott , born Bernice Abbott, was an American photographer best known for her black-and-white photography of New York City architecture and urban design of the 1930s.-Youth:...
(1898–1991) (photographer) - Karimeh AbbudKarimeh AbbudKarimeh Abbud , also known as the "Lady Photographer", was a professional photographer and artist who lived and worked in Lebanon and Palestine in the first half of the twentieth century. -Early life:...
(1896–1955) (photographer) - Elsie AllenElsie AllenElsie Allen was a Native American Pomo basket weaver from the Cloverdale Rancheria of Pomo Indians of California in Northern California, significant as for historically categorizing and teaching Californian Indian basket patterns and techniques and sustaining traditional Pomo basketry as an art...
(1899–1990), Cloverdale PomoCloverdale Rancheria of Pomo Indians of CaliforniaThe Cloverdale Rancheria of Pomo Indians of California is a federally recognized tribe of Pomo Indians in California.The Tribe is currently considered "landless", as they do not have any land that is in Federal Trust for the Tribe. However, in 2008 the Tribe acquired approximately 80 acres of...
basket weaver - Mabel AlvarezMabel AlvarezMabel Alvarez was an American painter. Her works, often introspective and spiritual in nature, and her style is considered a contributing factor to the Southern California Modernism and California Impressionism movement..-Life:She was born to a prominent Spanish family who lived on the island of...
(1891–1985) painter - Peggy BaconPeggy BaconMargaret Frances "Peggy" Bacon was an American printmaker, illustrator, painter and writer.-Biography:Bacon was born May 2, 1895 in Ridgefield, Connecticut to artists Charles Roswell Bacon and Elizabeth . The eldest of three children, Bacon's two younger brothers died in infancy leaving her an...
(1895–1987), printmaker, painter, illustrator - Carrie BethelCarrie BethelCarrie McGowan Bethel was a Mono Lake Paiute - Kucadikadi basketmaker associated with Yosemite National Park. She was born Carrie McGowan in Lee Vining, California and began making baskets at the age of 12. She participated in basket making competitions in the Yosemite Indian Field Days in 1926...
(1898–1974), Mono Lake Paiute basket weaver - Lucile BlanchLucile BlanchLucile Blanch was an American artist and Guggenheim Fellow.-Biography:Lucile Blanch was born in 1895 in Hawley, Minnesota to the painter and lithographer Lucille Linguist. During World War I, she studied at the Minneapolis School of Art with her future husband Arnold Blanch, and other notable...
(1895-1981), painter - Elise BlumannElise BlumannElise Blumann was a German born artist who achieved recognition as an Australian Expressionist painter. She studied under Max Liebermann at the Berlin Academy of Art from 1916 until 1919. After which, Blumann taught in various schools in Germany from 1920 to 1923, when she married Arnold Blumann...
(1897–1990) (painter) - Claude CahunClaude CahunClaude Cahun was a French artist, photographer and writer. Her work was both political and personal, and often played with the concepts of gender and sexuality.-Early life:...
(1894–1954) (photographer, author) - Dora CarringtonDora CarringtonDora de Houghton Carrington , known generally as Carrington, was a British painter and decorative artist, remembered in part for her association with members of the Bloomsbury Group, especially the writer Lytton Strachey....
(1893–1932) (painter) - Grace CrowleyGrace CrowleyGrace Crowley was an Australian artist and modernist painter.-Early life:She was born Grace Adela Williams Crowley in 1890 on May 28, at Forrest Lodge, Cobbadah, in North-Western New South Wales. She was the fourth child of Henry, a grazier, and Elizabeth...
(1890–1979) (painter) - Louise Dahl-WolfeLouise Dahl-WolfeLouise Emma Augusta Dahl was a noted American photographer. She is known primarily for her work for Harper's Bazaar, in association with fashion editor Diana Vreeland.-Background:...
(1895–1989) (photographer) - Florence DavidsonFlorence DavidsonFlorence Edenshaw Davidson was a Canadian First Nations artist from the Haida nation who created traditional basketry and button-blankets and was also a respected elder in her First Nations community, the Haida village of Masset, Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia.She was born in Masset on...
(1896–1993), HaidaHaidaThe Haida are an indigenous nation of the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America. Haida territories lie in both Canada and the United States, as do those of the Tlingit and Tsimshian. The Haida territories comprise the archipelago of Haida Gwaii in British Columbia...
basket weaver - Eileen Forrester Agar (1899–1991) (painter, collage)
- Laura GilpinLaura GilpinLaura Gilpin was an American photographer known for her photographs of Native Americans, particularly the Navajo and Pueblo, and her Southwestern landscapes.-Life:...
(1891–1979) (photographer) - Dorothea LangeDorothea LangeDorothea Lange was an influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration...
(1895–1965) (photographer) - Tamara de LempickaTamara de LempickaTamara de Lempicka , born Maria Górska in Moscow, in the Russian Empire, was a Polish Art Deco painter and "the first woman artist to be a glamour star."- Early life :...
(1898–1980) (painter) - Lucile LloydLucile LloydLucile Lloyd was an American muralist.Lloyd was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. She worked in her father's studio and apprenticed in his stained-glass and textile design shop. She attended school at the Woman's Art School at Cooper Union in New York City and won two scholarships to the Art Students...
(1894-1941), muralist - Suzanne MalherbeSuzanne MalherbeSuzanne Malherbe , also known by the alias Marcel Moore, was a French illustrator and designer. She was the partner of Claude Cahun, surrealist writer and photographer....
(1892–1972) (illustrator, designer) - Hildreth MeiereHildreth MeiereHildreth Meiere , American artist, architectural artist, muralist and mosaicist.- Biography :After studying at New York's Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart, Meiere studied in Florence. Being exposed to the Renaissance Masters, she is quoted as saying, "After that I could not be satisfied...
(1892–1961) (mosaicist) - Yevonde Middleton (1893–1975) (photographer)
- Tina ModottiTina ModottiTina Modotti was an Italian photographer, model, actress, and revolutionary political activist.- Early life :Modotti was born Assunta Adelaide Luigia Modotti Mondini in Udine, Friuli, Italy...
(1896–1942) (photographer, actress) - Lucia MoholyLucia MoholyLucia Moholy, born Lucia Schulz, was a photographer and first wife of artist and fellow photographer László Moholy-Nagy.- Biography :...
(1894–1989) (photographer) - Louise Nevelson (1899–1988) (sculptor)
- Bashka PaeffBashka PaeffBashka Paeff was an American sculptor active near Boston, Massachusetts.-Biography:Paeff was born in Minsk, Russia, and emigrated to the United States as an infant. In 1914 she attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where she studied with Bela Pratt, and was sometimes called the...
(1894-1979) (sculptor) - Orovida Camille Pissarro (1893–1968) (painter, printmaker)
- Dod ProcterDod ProcterDod Procter was a Cornish artist, and wife of artist Ernest Procter. Her painting, Morning, was bought for the nation by the Daily Mail in 1927.-Life and work:...
(1892–1972) (painter) - Kay SageKay SageKatherine Linn Sage , usually known as Kay Sage, was an American Surrealist artist and poet.-Biography:...
(1898–1963) (painter) - Augusta SavageAugusta SavageAugusta Savage, born Augusta Christine Fells was an African-American sculptor associated with the Harlem Renaissance. She was also a teacher and her studio was important to the careers of a rising generation of artists who would become nationally known...
(1892–1962) (sculptor) - Elsa SchiaparelliElsa SchiaparelliElsa Schiaparelli was an Italian fashion designer. Along with Coco Chanel, her greatest rival, she is regarded as one of the most prominent figures in fashion between the two World Wars. Starting with knitwear, Schiaparelli's designs were heavily influenced by Surrealists like her collaborators...
(1890–1973) (fashion, textiles) - Alma Thomas (1891–1978) (painter)
- Ogura YukiOgura Yukiwas a nihonga painter in Shōwa period Japan. Her maiden name was Mizoguchi Yuki. She was known for her bijinga.-Biography:Ogura was born in Ōtsu city, Shiga prefecture and graduated from the Nara Women's Normal School...
(1895–2000) (painter)
1900–1909
- Gertrude AbercrombieGertrude AbercrombieGertrude Abercrombie was an American painter based in Chicago. Called "the queen of the bohemian artists," Abercrombie was involved in the Chicago jazz scene and friends with musicians such as Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and Sarah Vaughan, whose music inspired her own creative work.-Personal...
(1909–1977) (painter) - Maxine AlbroMaxine AlbroMaxine Albro was an American painter, muralist and lithographer. She was one of the few female artists commissioned under the New Deal's Federal Art Project, a program launched during the Great Depression that also employed the likes of Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, among other painters who...
(1903-1966), muralist, printmaker - Catherine Tharp AltvaterCatherine Tharp AltvaterCatherine Tharp Altvater was an artist. Her watercolor paintings hang in the Museum of Modern Art and many other museums. Altvater was the first woman to hold office in the American Watercolor Society. She was married to Fredrick Lang Altvater. She lived in New York, New York most of her...
(1907–1984) (painter) - Evgenia BaykovaEvgenia BaykovaEvgenia Vasilievna Baykova was a Russian Soviet realist painter and graphic artist, who lived and worked in Saint Petersburg...
(1907-1997) (painter) - Dorr BothwellDorr BothwellDorr Hodgson Bothwell was an American artist, designer, educator, and world-traveller. She was born in San Francisco, California. She began her art career at the California School of Fine Arts in 1921, under the tutelage of Gottardo Piazzoni and Rudolf Schaeffer.- Travels :Bothwell's travels...
(1902–2000), painter, printmaker - Lola Álvarez BravoLola Alvarez BravoLola Álvarez Bravo was a Mexican photographer. She was a key figure in Mexico's post-revolution renaissance....
(1907–1993) (photographer) - Ruth BernhardRuth BernhardRuth Bernhard was an American photographer.-Early life:Bernhard was born in Berlin and studied at the Berlin Academy of Art from 1925–27. Bernhard's father, Lucian Bernhard, was known for his poster and typeface design.-Photography career:In 1927 Bernhard moved to New York City, where her...
(1905–2006) (photographer) - Isabel BishopIsabel BishopIsabel Bishop was an American painter and graphic artist, who produced numerous paintings and prints of working women in realistic urban settings...
(1902–1988) (painter) - Margaret Bourke-WhiteMargaret Bourke-WhiteMargaret Bourke-White was an American photographer and documentary photographer. She is best known as the first foreign photographer permitted to take pictures of Soviet Industry, the first female war correspondent and the first female photographer for Henry Luce's Life magazine, where her...
(1904–1971) (photographer) - Emmy Bridgewater (1906–1999) (painter, poet)
- Margaret BrundageMargaret BrundageMargaret Brundage, born Margaret Hedda Johnson was an American illustrator and painter who is remembered chiefly for having illustrated the pulp magazine Weird Tales...
(1900–1976) (illustrator) - Selma BurkeSelma BurkeSelma Hortense Burke was an American sculptor.Born in Mooresville, North Carolina to a farming family, she demonstrated an early interest in art. Her parents insisted she study a more marketable profession, and she graduated from the St. Agnes Training School for Nurses in Raleigh in 1924...
(1900–1995) (sculptor) - Marie Z. ChinoMarie Z. ChinoMarie Zieu Chino was a Native American potter from Acoma Pueblo, New Mexico. Marie and her friends Lucy M. Lewis and Jessie Garcia are recognized as the three most important Acoma potters during the 1950s. The inspiration for many designs used on their pottery were found on old potsherds gathered...
(1907–1982), Acoma PuebloAcoma PuebloAcoma Pueblo is a Native American pueblo approximately 60 miles west of Albuquerque, New Mexico in the United States. Three reservations make up Acoma Pueblo: Sky City , Acomita, and McCartys. The Acoma Pueblo tribe is a federally recognized tribal entity...
ceramic artist - Dorothy DehnerDorothy Dehner-Biography:She grew up in Cleveland.In 1918, she took classes at the Pasadena Playhouse, and studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.In 1922, she moved to New York City, and studied at the Art Students League....
(1901–1994), sculptor, printmaker - Claire FalkensteinClaire FalkensteinClaire Falkenstein was an American sculptor, painter, printmaker, jewelry designer, and teacher, most renowned for her often large-scale abstract metal and glass public sculptures.-Early life and education:...
(1908–1997), sculptor, painter, printmaker - Perle FinePerle FinePerle Fine was among the most prominent female artists associated with American Abstract Expressionism.-Biography:Perle Fine was born in Boston, MA, in 1908. Her interest in art started at early age. In her early twenties she moved to New York City to study at the Art Students League with Kimon...
(1908–1988), painter - Leonor FiniLeonor FiniLeonor Fini was an Argentine surrealist painter.-Life and work:Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, she was raised in Trieste, Italy. She moved to Milan at the age of 17, and then to Paris, in either 1931 or 1932...
(1907–1996) (painter) - Cornelia MacIntyre FoleyCornelia MacIntyre FoleyCornelia MacIntyre Foley was an artist who was born in Honolulu, Hawaii on January 31, 1909. She began her art training under the first art instructor the University of Hawaii, Huc-Mazelet Luquiens...
(1909–2010), painter - Gisèle FreundGisèle FreundGisèle Freund was a German-born French photographer, famous for her documentary photography and portraits of writers and artists. Her best-known book is Photographie et société , about the uses and abuses of the photographic medium.-Early life:Freund was born near Berlin to a wealthy Jewish family...
(1908 or 1912–2000) (photographer) - Barbara HepworthBarbara HepworthDame Barbara Hepworth DBE was an English sculptor. Her work exemplifies Modernism, and with such contemporaries as Ivon Hitchens, Henry Moore, Ben Nicholson, Naum Gabo she helped to develop modern art in Britain.-Life and work:Jocelyn Barbara Hepworth was born on 10 January 1903 in Wakefield,...
(1903–1975) (sculptor) - Karen HoltsmarkKaren Holtsmark-Personal life:She was born in Ås as a daughter of educator and physicist Gabriel Gabrielsen Holtsmark and his wife Margrete Weisse . She was a maternal granddaughter of philologist Johan Peter Weisse, and a paternal granddaughter of agriculturalist and politician Bent Holtsmark...
(1907–1998) (painter) - Frida KahloFrida KahloFrida Kahlo de Rivera was a Mexican painter, born in Coyoacán, and perhaps best known for her self-portraits....
(1907–1954) (painter) - Maude KeggMaude KeggMaude Kegg was an Ojibwa writer, folk artist, and cultural interpreter...
(1904–1986), Ojibwe bead artist - Anna KostrovaAnna KostrovaAnna Alexandrovna Kostrova was a Russian Soviet realist painter, graphic artist, and book illustrator, who lived and worked in Leningrad. She was a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists, regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad school of painting....
(1909-1994), painter, graphic artist - Lee KrasnerLee KrasnerLee Krasner was an influential abstract expressionist painter in the second half of the 20th century. On October 25, 1945, she married artist Jackson Pollock, who was also influential in the Abstract Expressionism movement....
(1908–1984) (painter) - Ruth Harriet LouiseRuth Harriet LouiseRuth Harriet Louise was an American professional photographer, the first woman photographer active in Hollywood; she ran Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's portrait studio from 1925 to 1930.-Career:...
(1903–1940) (photographer) - Helen LundebergHelen LundebergHelen Lundeberg was an American Post-Surrealist, hard-edge painter.Lundeberg was born in Chicago. She married California artist Lorser Feitelson, her former teacher...
(1908-1999) painter - Mabel McKayMabel McKayMabel McKay was a member of the Long Valley Cache Creek Pomo Indians. She was the last Dreamer of the Pomo people and a basket making prodigy....
(1907–1993), Pomo-PatwinPatwinThe Patwin are a Wintun people native to the area of Northern California. The Patwin were a southern branch of the Wintun group and native inhabitants of California from 1,000 up to 4,000 years....
basket weaver - Dora MaarDora MaarDora Maar was a French photographer, poet and painter, best known for being a lover and muse of Pablo Picasso.-Life:...
(1907–1997), photographer, painter, poet - Maruja MalloMaruja MalloMaruja Mallo was a Spanish painter.She was born in Vivero, Lugo, and studied arts in Madrid between 1922 and 1926, where she met many important artists, as she also did subsequently in Paris: Salvador Dalí, Federico García Lorca, Luis Buñuel, Magritte, Max Ernst, Miró, De Chirico, André Breton,...
(1902–1995) (painter) - Hansel MiethHansel MiethHansel Mieth was a German-born photojournalist who worked on the staff of LIFE Magazine. She was best known for her social commentary photography which recorded the lives of working class Americans in the 1930s and 1940s....
(1909–1998) (photographer) - Lee MillerLee MillerElizabeth 'Lee' Miller, Lady Penrose was an American photographer. Born in Poughkeepsie, New York in 1907, she was a successful fashion model in New York City in the 1920s before going to Paris where she became an established fashion and fine art photographer...
(1907–1977) (photographer) - Lisette ModelLisette ModelLisette Model was an Austrian-born American photographer.Lisette Model was born Elise Felic Amelie Stern in Vienna, Austria...
(1901–1983) (photographer) - Barbara MorganBarbara MorganBarbara Radding Morgan is an American teacher and a former NASA astronaut. She participated in the Teacher in Space program as the backup to Christa McAuliffe for the ill-fated STS-51L mission of Space Shuttle Challenger. She then trained as a Mission Specialist, and flew on STS-118 in August 2007...
(1900–1992) (photographer) - Fannie NampeyoFannie NampeyoFannie Nampeyo was a modern and contemporary fine arts potter, who carried on the traditions of her famous mother, Nampeyo of Hano, the grand matriarch of modern Hopi pottery.Fannie was the youngest, and perhaps the most famous, of Nampeyo of Hano's three daughters...
(1900–1987), potter, ceramic artist - Alice NeelAlice NeelAlice Neel was an American artist known for her oil on canvas portraits of friends, family, lovers, poets, artists and strangers...
(1900–1984) (painter) - Essie Parrish (1902–1979), Kashaya PomoKashia Band of Pomo Indians of the Stewarts Point RancheriaThe Kashia Band of Pomo Indians of the Stewarts Point Rancheria is a federally recognized tribe of Pomo people in Sonoma County, California. They are also known as the Kashaya Pomo.-Reservation:...
basket weaver - Betty ParsonsBetty ParsonsBetty Parsons, born Betty Bierne Pierson, was an American artist and art dealer known for her early promotion of Abstract Expressionism. She was known as "the den mother of Abstract Expressionism"...
(1900–1982), painter, gallerist - Irene Rice Pereira (1902–1971), painter, author
- Leni RiefenstahlLeni RiefenstahlHelene Bertha Amalie "Leni" Riefenstahl was a German film director, actress and dancer widely noted for her aesthetics and innovations as a filmmaker. Her most famous film was Triumph des Willens , a propaganda film made at the 1934 Nuremberg congress of the Nazi Party...
(1902–2003) (filmmaker) - Louise Emerson RonnebeckLouise Emerson RonnebeckLouise Emerson Ronnebeck was an American painter best known for her murals executed for the Works Progress Administration . Born in Philadelphia she married artist Arnold Ronnebeck in 1926 and they settled in Denver, Colorado...
(1901–1980), painter - Ethel SchwabacherEthel SchwabacherEthel Kremer Schwabacher was a protege of Arshile Gorky, his first biographer, and herself a well-known abstract expressionist painter. Her daughter is the American writer and translator, Brenda Webster....
(1903–1984), painter - Bernarda Bryson ShahnBernarda Bryson ShahnBernarda Bryson Shahn was an American painter, lithographer and widow of renowned artist Ben Shahn, who wrote and illustrated children's books including "The Zoo of Zeus" and "Gilgamesh."...
(1903–2004), painter, lithographer - Elena SkuinElena SkuinElena Petrovna Skuin – Soviet, Russian – Latvian painter, watercolorist, graphic artist, and art teacher, lived and worked in Leningrad, a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists, regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad school of painting, most famous for her still life painting.-...
(1909-1986) (painter) - Remedios VaroRemedios VaroRemedios Varo Uranga was a Spanish-Mexican, para-surrealist painter and anarchist. She was born María de los Remedios Varo Uranga in Anglès, Girona, Spain in 1908. During the Spanish Civil War she fled to Paris where she was greatly influenced by the surrealist movement...
(1908–1963) (painter) - Henriette WyethHenriette WyethHenriette Wyeth Hurd was an American artist noted for portraits and still life paintings. She was the wife of artist Peter Hurd, daughter of illustrator N.C. Wyeth and sister of artist Andrew Wyeth. She was also the mother of artist Michael Hurd...
(1907–1997), painter - Maria ZubreevaMaria ZubreevaMaria Abramovna Zubreeva was a Russian Soviet realist painter, watercolorist, graphic artist, and designer, who lived and worked in Leningrad. She was regarded as one of the representatives of the Leningrad school of painting.- Biography :...
(1900-1991), painter, graphic artist
1910–1919
- Taisia AfoninaTaisia AfoninaTaisia Kirillovna Afonina |Nikolaev]], Crimea, Russian Empire - April 19, 1994, Saint Petersburg, Russia) - Soviet, Russian painter and watercolorist, lived and worked in Leningrad, a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists , regarded as one of the brightest representatives of the Leningrad...
(1913-1994) (painter) - Evgenia AntipovaEvgenia AntipovaEvgenia Petrovna Antipova was a Russian and Soviet painter, watercolorist, graphic artist, and Art teacher. She lived and worked in Leningrad - Saint Petersburg and is regarded as one of the brightest representatives of the Leningrad school of painting....
(1917–2009) (painter) - Eve ArnoldEve ArnoldEve Arnold, FRPS is an American photojournalist. She joined Magnum Photos agency in 1951, and became a full member in 1957....
(born 1912) (photographer) - Louise BourgeoisLouise BourgeoisLouise Joséphine Bourgeois , was a renowned French-American artist and sculptor, best known for her contributions to both modern and contemporary art, and for her spider structures, titled Maman, which resulted in her being nicknamed the Spiderwoman...
(1911–2010) (sculptor) - Leonora CarringtonLeonora CarringtonLeonora Carrington OBE was a British-born Mexican artist, a surrealist painter and a novelist. She lived most of her life in Mexico City.-Early life:...
(born 1917) (painter) - Elizabeth CatlettElizabeth CatlettElizabeth Catlett Mora is an African-American sculptor and printmaker. Catlett is best known for the black, expressionistic sculptures and prints she produced during the 1960s and 1970s, which are seen as politically charged....
(born 1915) (sculptor, printmaker) - Helen CorderoHelen CorderoHelen Cordero was a Cochiti Pueblo potter from Cochiti, New Mexico. She was renowned for her storyteller dolls, a genre she invented. In 1986 she was made a National Heritage Fellow.-External links:*...
(1915–1994), Cochiti Pueblo ceramic artist - Elaine de KooningElaine de KooningElaine de Kooning was an Abstract Expressionist, Figurative Expressionist painter in the post-World War II era and editorial associate for Art News magazine...
(1918–1989), painter - Maya DerenMaya DerenMaya Deren , born Eleanora Derenkowsky, was an American avant-garde filmmaker and film theorist of the 1940s and 1950s...
(1917–1961), Avant-garde filmmaker and theorist, photographer - Jane FrankJane FrankJane Schenthal Frank was an American artist. She studied with Hans Hofmann and Norman Carlberg and is known as a painter, sculptor, mixed media artist, and textile artist...
(1918–1986) (mixed-media painter, sculptor) - Rosalie GascoigneRosalie GascoigneRosalie Gascoigne was a New Zealander-Australian sculptor. She showed at the Venice Biennale in 1982, becoming the first female artist to represent Australia there. In 1994 she was awarded the Order of Australia for her services to the arts.-Life:Gascoigne was born Rosalie Norah King Walker in...
(1917–1999) (sculptor, assemblage) - Nora HeysenNora HeysenNora Heysen AM was an Australian artist, the first woman to win the prestigious Archibald Prize for portraiture and the first Australian woman appointed as an official war artist.-Biography:...
(1911–2003) (painter) - Tove JanssonTove JanssonTove Marika Jansson was a Swedish-Finnish novelist, painter, illustrator and comic strip author. She is best known as the author of the Moomin books.- Biography :...
(1914–2001) (painter, illustrator, novelist) - Gwendolyn KnightGwendolyn KnightGwendolyn Clarine Knight was an African American artist from Barbados, in the West Indies.Gwendolyn Knight painted throughout her life, but did not start seriously exhibiting her work until the 1970s. Her first retrospective when she was nearly eighty years old...
(1914–2005) (painter) - Jacqueline LambaJacqueline LambaJacqueline Lamba Breton was a French painter perhaps best known as the second wife of André Breton and "the subject of many of his poems". With Breton she had a daughter, Aube Elléouët Breton. She and Breton separated in 1943...
(1910–1993) (painter) - Helen LevittHelen LevittHelen Levitt was an American photographer. She was particularly noted for "street photography" around New York City, and has been called "the most celebrated and least known photographer of her time."- Biography :...
(1913–2009) (photographer) - Ethel MagafanEthel MagafanEthel Magafan was an American painter.Magafan was born August 10, 1916, in Chicago, Illinois. Raised in Colorado Springs, Colorado, she studied at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center with Frank Mechau, Boardman Robinson, and Peppino Mangravite, and was a member of the Colorado Springs Fine Arts...
(born 1916), painter - Agnes MartinAgnes MartinAgnes Bernice Martin was an American abstract painter, often referred to as a minimalist; Martin considered herself an abstract expressionist.She won a National Medal of Arts from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1998....
(1912–2004) (painter) - Mercedes MatterMercedes MatterMercedes Matter née Carles was an American painter and draughtswoman. Her father was the American modernist painter Arthur Beecher Carles who had studied with Henri Matisse. Her mother, Mercedes de Cordoba, was a model for Edward Steichen...
née Carles (1913–2001) (painter) - Louisa MatthíasdóttirLouisa MatthíasdóttirLouisa Matthíasdóttir was an Icelandic-American painter.Matthíasdóttir was born in Reykjavík. She showed artistic ability at an early age, and studied first in Denmark and then under Marcel Gromaire in Paris...
(1917–2000) (painter) - Hilda Grossman MorrisHilda Grossman MorrisHilda Grossman Morris was a sculptor of the Northwest School, working mainly in bronze.Morris and her husband, the Abstract Expressionist painter Carl Morris, settled in Portland, Oregon in 1941. Except for extended trips to her hometown New York City and in later years Pietrasanta, Italy to cast...
(1911–1991), sculptor - Meret OppenheimMéret Oppenheim-External links:**** http://www.artchive.com/artchive/M/man_ray.html...
(1913–1985) (sculptor) - Tuulikki PietiläTuulikki PietiläTuulikki Pietilä was a Finnish graphic artist and professor, born in Seattle, Washington. Pietilä was one of the most influential people in Finnish graphic arts, and her work has been shown in numerous art exhibitions...
(1917–2009) (illustrator) - Maria RudnitskayaMaria RudnitskayaMaria Leonidovna Rudnitskaya was a Russian Soviet realist painter, graphic artist, and art teacher, who lived and worked in Leningrad. She was a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists, regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad school of painting....
(1916-1983) (painter) - Charlotte SalomonCharlotte SalomonCharlotte Salomon was a German-Jewish artist born in Berlin. She is primarily remembered as the creator of an autobiographical series of paintings Leben? oder Theater?: Ein Singspiel consisting of 769 individual works painted between 1941 and 1943 in the south of France, while Salomon was in...
(1917–1943) (painter) - Clara ShermanClara ShermanClara Nezbah Sherman was a Navajo artist particularly known for her Navajo rugs. Born Nezbah Gould, her mother was of the clan, and her father was of the . She was the last surviving member of ten siblings including an adopted sister. Sherman and her siblings learned to weave as children from her...
(born 1915) (textile art) - Nadezhda ShteinmillerNadezhda ShteinmillerNadezhda Pavlovna Shteinmiller was a Russian Soviet realist painter, graphic artist, art teacher, Scenographer, and Stage designer who lived and worked in Leningrad...
(1915-1991) (painter, stage designer) - Hedda SterneHedda SterneHedda Sterne was an artist best remembered as the only woman in a group of Abstract Expressionists known as "The Irascibles" which consisted of Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko, and others...
(born 1910–) (painter) - Dorothea TanningDorothea TanningDorothea Tanning is an American painter, printmaker, sculptor and writer. She has also designed sets and costumes for ballet and theatre.-Biography:...
(born 1910) (painter) - Gerda TaroGerda TaroGerda Taro was born into a Polish Jewish family living in Germany. She became a war photographer, and the companion and professional partner of photographer Robert Capa...
(1910–1937) (photographer) - Anya TeixeiraAnya TeixeiraAnya Teixeira was a street photographer and photojournalist.Teixeira's family escaped the Russian Revolution through a rescue mounted by her uncle Morris Gest, a New York impresario. The family settled in Berlin in 1924 so as to be near at hand for the expected overthrow of the Bolshevik regime...
(1913–1992) (photographer) - Bridget Bate TichenorBridget Bate TichenorBridget Bate Tichenor , also known as Bridget Tichenor or B.B.T., was a Mexican surrealist painter of fantastic art in the school of magic realism and a fashion editor...
(1917–1990) (painter) - Pablita VelardePablita VelardePablita Velarde born Tse Tsan was an American painter.-Early life:After the death of her mother when Pablita was about five years old, she and two of her sisters were sent to St Catherine's Indian School in Santa Fe...
(1918–2006) (painter) - Marion Post WolcottMarion Post WolcottMarion Post was a noted photographer who worked for the Farm Security Administration during the Great Depression documenting poverty and deprivation. She was born in New Jersey. Her parents split up and she was sent to boarding school, spending time at home with her mother in Greenwich Village...
(1910–1990) (photographer)
1920–1929
- Ida ApplebroogIda ApplebroogIda Applebroog is a notable American painter. Her work is included in many public collections in the United States. During the decade of the 1990s, she received multiple honors including the College Art Association Distinguished Art Award for Lifetime Achievement, an Honorary Doctorate of Fine...
(born 1929) (painter) - Diane ArbusDiane ArbusDiane Arbus March 14, 1923 – July 26, 1971) was an American photographer and writer noted for black-and-white square photographs of "deviant and marginal people or of people whose normality seems ugly or surreal." A friend said that Arbus said that she was "afraid.....
(1923–1971) (photographer) - Alice BaberAlice BaberAlice Baber was an American abstract expressionist painter who worked in oils and watercolor.Alice was born in Charleston, Illinois. She grew up in Kansas, Illinois and Miami, Florida, her family traveled south to Florida yearly because of Alice poor health. They settled in Illinois when World War...
(1928–1982) (painter) - Jo BaerJo BaerJosephine Gail "Jo" Baer, born Josephine Kleinberg August 7, 1929, is an American artist, whose works are associated with minimalist art...
(born 1929) (painter) - Irina BaldinaIrina BaldinaIrina Mikhailovna Baldina - Soviet Russian painter, lived and worked in Leningrad, regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad school of painting.- Biography :Irina Mikhailovna Baldina was born May 18, 1922 in Moscow, Soviet Russia....
(1922–2009) (painter) - Hannelore BaronHannelore BaronHannelore Baron was an artist whose work has become known for the highly personal, book-sized, abstract collages and box constructions that she began exhibiting in the late 1960s. Born in Dillingen/Saar, Germany, she and her family fled persecution in Nazi Germany in 1938 and relocated to the...
(1926–1987), collage artist - Zlata BizovaZlata BizovaZlata Nikolaevna Bizova is a Russian Soviet realist painter and graphic artist, who lives and works in Saint Petersburg . She is a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists , regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad school of painting.- Biography :Zlata Nikolaevna...
(born 1927) (painter) - Esther BubleyEsther BubleyEsther Bubley was an American photographer who specialized in expressive photos of ordinary people in everyday lives.-Biography:...
(1921–1998) (photographer) - Crucita Calabaza (Blue CornBlue CornBlue Corn , also known as Crucita Calabaza, was a Native American potter from San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico, in the United States. She became famous for reviving San Ildefonso polychrome wares and had a very long and productive career.-Early life:Her grandmother first introduced her to pottery...
, ca. 1920–1999), San Ildefonso Pueblo ceramic artist - Marie CosindasMarie CosindasMarie Cosindas is an American photographer. She is best known for her evocative still life and colour portraits.-Biography:...
(born 1925) (photographer) - Amanda CroweAmanda CroweAmanda Crowe was an Eastern Band Cherokee woodcarver and educator from Cherokee, North Carolina.-Early life:Amanda Crowe was born on 16 July 1928 in the Qualla Boundary, North Carolina. By the age of four, she had decided to become an artist. Of her children, Amanda said: "Every spare minute was...
(1928–2004) Eastern CherokeeEastern CherokeeThe term Eastern Cherokee refers to:*Cherokee descendants not removed to Oklahoma.*The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians...
woodcarver - Jay DeFeoJay DeFeoJay DeFeo was a visual artist associated with the Beat generation who worked c.1950-1989 in the San Francisco Bay Area....
(1929–1989), painter, visual artist - Lois DoddLois DoddLois Dodd was born in Montclair, New Jersey in 1927. She was educated at the Cooper Union in New York City from 1945-48. She is an abstract expressionist painter. She was the only woman founder of the Tanager Gallery, which was integral to the Tenth Street-avant-garde scene of the 1950s where...
(born 1927) (painter) - Mavis DoeringMavis Doering-Background:Doering was born in Hominy, Oklahoma and was the third generation of a family of basketmakers. She was mostly self-taught. Beginning in the 1970s, she researched weaving techniques from books in libraries and museums.-Art:...
, (1929–2007), CherokeeCherokeeThe Cherokee are a Native American people historically settled in the Southeastern United States . Linguistically, they are part of the Iroquoian language family...
basket weaver - Rosalyn DrexlerRosalyn DrexlerRosalyn Drexler is a Pop artist, novelist, Obie Award-winning playwright, and Emmy Award-winning screenwriter. She is represented by Pace Gallery.-Early life:...
(born 1926), painter - Helen FrankenthalerHelen FrankenthalerHelen Frankenthaler is an American abstract expressionist painter. She is a major contributor to the history of postwar American painting. Having exhibited her work in six decades she has spanned several generations of abstract painters while continuing to produce vital and ever-changing new work...
(born 1928) (painter) - Mokarrameh GhanbariMokarrameh GhanbariMokarrameh Ghanbari was a heuristic and self made Iranian painter who won several international talent prizes.Mokarrameh was born in the village of Darikandeh between Shahi and Babol, in Mazanderan, and despite her great talent, she never received any formal training in painting.She began painting...
(1928–2005) (painter) - Françoise Gilot (born 1921) (painter, writer)
- Elaine Hamilton-O'NealElaine Hamilton-O'NealElaine Hamilton-O'Neal, , professionally known as Elaine Hamilton, was an internationally known American abstract painter and muralist born near Catonsville, Maryland...
(1920–2010) (painter) - Grace HartiganGrace HartiganGrace Hartigan was an American Abstract Expressionist painter of the New York School in the 1950s.-Biography and early career:...
(1922–2008) (painter) - Martha Holmes (1923–2006) (photographer)
- Mansooreh HosseiniMansooreh Hosseini-Life:At a young age, it was discovered that she had a talent for drawing , which compelled her father to hire a painting tutor to help her work to her potential. Later on, she was educated at the University of Tehran in the Faculty of Fine Arts, from which she graduated in 1949...
(born 1926) (painter) - Maya KopitsevaMaya KopitsevaMaya Kuzminichna Kopitseva - Soviet Russian painter, Honored Artist of the RSFSR, lived and worked in Leningrad - Saint Petersburg, a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists , regarded as one of the major representatives of the Leningrad school of painting, most famous for her still life...
(1924–2005) (painter) - Tatiana KopninaTatiana KopninaTatiana Vladimirovna Kopnina - Soviet Russian painter and Art teacher, lived and worked in Leningrad - Saint Petersburg, regarded as one of the representatives of the Leningrad school of painting, most famous for shes portrait paintings.- Biography :...
(1921–2009) (painter) - Elena KostenkoElena KostenkoElena Mikhailovna Kostenko - Soviet Russian painter, living and working in Saint Petersburg, a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists , regarded as one of the major representatives of the Leningrad school of painting, most famous for her portrait paintings.- Biography :Elena Mikhailovna...
(born 1926) (painter) - Marina KozlovskayaMarina KozlovskayaMarina Andreevna Kozlovskaya – a Soviet Russian painter, living and working in Leningrad – Saint Petersburg, regarded as one of the brightest representatives of the Leningrad school of painting, most famous for her landscape paintings.- Biography :...
(born 1925) (painter) - Yayoi KusamaYayoi Kusamais a Japanese artist whose paintings, collages, soft sculptures, performance art and environmental installations all share an obsession with repetition, pattern, and accumulation...
(born 1929) (sculpture/performance/installation) - Valeria LarinaValeria LarinaValeria Borisovna Larina was a Russian Soviet realist painter, graphic artist, who lived and worked in Saint Petersburg . She was a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists , regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad school of painting.- Biography :Valeria...
(1926–2008) (painter) - Joan MitchellJoan MitchellJoan Mitchell was a "second generation" abstract expressionist painter. She was an essential member of the American Abstract expressionist movement, even though much of her career took place in France. Along with Lee Krasner, Grace Hartigan, and Helen Frankenthaler she was one of her era's few...
(1925–1992) (painter) - Inge MorathInge MorathIngeborg Morath was an Austrian-born photographer. In 1953 she joined the Magnum Photos Agency, founded by top photographers in Paris, and became a full photographer with them in 1955...
(1923–2002) (photographer) - Margaret OlleyMargaret OlleyMargaret Hannah Olley AC was an Australian painter. She was the subject of more than 90 solo exhibitions.Margaret Olley was born in Lismore, New South Wales. She attended Somerville House in Brisbane during her high school years...
(1923–2011) (painter) - Mimi Parent (1924–2005) (painter)
- Galina RumiantsevaGalina RumiantsevaGalina Alexeevna Rumiantseva was a Russian Soviet realist painter and graphic artist, who lived and worked in Saint Petersburg . She was regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad school of painting.-Biography:...
(1927–2004) (painter) - Kapitolina RumiantsevaKapitolina RumiantsevaKapitolina Alexeevna Rumiantseva was a Russian Soviet realist painter and graphic artist, who lived and worked in Saint Petersburg...
(1925–2002) (painter) - Behjat SadrBehjat SadrBehjat Sadr was an Iranian painter whose works have been exhibited in major cities across the world, such as New York, Paris, and Rome. She was born to parents Mohammad Sadr Mahallati and Ghamar Amini Sadr in Arak in 1924. Sadr began her studies at the University of Tehran faculty of fine arts...
(1924–2009) (painter) - Takako SaitoTakako SaitoTakako Saito is a Japanese artist, born in Sabae-Shi, Fukui Province in Japan in 1929. Closely associated with Fluxus, the international collective of avant-garde artists that was active primarily in the 1960s and 1970s, she currently lives in Düsseldorf in Germany...
(born 1929) (installation art, performance art) - Honoré Desmond SharrerHonoré Desmond SharrerHonoré Desmond Sharrer was a noted American artist first received public acclaim in 1950 for her Tribute to the American Working People. It was painted as a five-image polyptych echoing a Renaissance altarpiece, except its central figure is a factory worker not a saint...
(1920-2009), painter - Galina SmirnovaGalina SmirnovaGalina Alexandrovna Smirnova - a Soviet Russian painter, living and working in Saint Petersburg, a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists , regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad school of painting, most famous for her portraits of contemporaries.- Biography :Galina...
(born 1929) (painter) - Nancy SperoNancy SperoNancy Spero was an American visual artist.-Life and work:Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Spero lived for much of her life in New York City. She was married to, and collaborated with artist Leon Golub....
(1926–2009) (painter) - Hannah TompkinsHannah Tompkins (artist)Hannah Tompkins was an American artist primarily known for her large body of artwork based on the writings of William Shakespeare...
(1920–1995) (painter, printmaker) - Anne TruittAnne TruittAnne Truitt was a major American artist of the mid-20th century; she is associated with both minimalism and Color Field artists like Morris Louis and Kenneth Noland....
(1921–2004), sculptor - Nina VeselovaNina VeselovaNina Leonidovna Veselova was a Russian Soviet realist painter and graphic artist, Doctor of art-criticism , who lived and worked in Leningrad, She was a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists, regarded as one of the brightest representatives of the Leningrad school of painting.- Biography :Nina...
(1922–1960) (painter) - Leona WoodLeona WoodLeona Wood was a highly regarded 20th century American painter, dancer, writer and co-founder of the Aman International Folk Ensemble. Her early paintings were considered a part of the Surrealism school.-Biography:...
(1921–2008) (painter)
1930–1939
- Alice AdamsAlice Adams (artist)Alice Adams is an American artist known for her sculpture and site specific land art in the 1970s and since 1986 for her major public art projects in transit systems, airports, university campuses and other urban sites throughout the United States...
(born 1930) (sculptor, textile art, earthworks) - Emma AndijewskaEmma AndijewskaEmma Andijewska is a modern Ukrainian poet, writer and painter. Her works are marked with surrealist style. Some of Andijewska's works have been translated to English and German. Andijewska lives and works in Munich...
(born 1931) (painter, writer) - Gayleen AikenGayleen AikenGayleen Aiken was an artist, musician, and historian who lived most of her life in Barre, Vermont.Gayleen Aiken shared her unique artistic vision with the world through Vermont's Grass Roots Art and Community Effort's exhibition program...
(1934–2005) (painter, musician) - Helene AylonHelene AylonHelène Aylon is an American multimedia ecofeminist artist. Her work can be divided into three phases: Process art in the '70s; anti-nuclear art in the '80s; and The G-d Project, a feminist commentary on the Hebrew Bible and other established traditions, in the '90s and 2000s.Aylon was raised in...
(born 1931) (sculptor) - Hilla BecherBernd and Hilla BecherBernard "Bernd" Becher , and Hilla Becher, née Wobeser , were German artists working as a collaborative duo. They are best known for their extensive series of photographic images, or typologies, of industrial buildings and structures.- Biography :Bernd Becher was born in Siegen...
(born 1934) (photographer) - Lee BontecouLee BontecouLee Bontecou is an American artist who was born 15 January 1931 in Providence, Rhode Island. She attended the Art Students League of New York from 1952 to 1955, where she studied with the sculptor William Zorach. She received a Fulbright scholarship to study in Rome in 1957-1958 and the Louis...
(born 1931) (sculptor, printmaker) - Joan BrownJoan BrownJoan Brown was an American figurative painter who lived and worked in Northern California. She was a notable member of the "second generation" of the Bay Area Figurative Movement....
(1938–1990), painter - Judy ChicagoJudy ChicagoJudy Chicago is a feminist artist, author, and educator.Chicago has been creating artwork since the mid 1960s. Her earliest forays into the art world coincided with the rise of Minimalism, which she eventually abandoned in favor of art she believed to have greater content and relevance...
(born 1939) (author and installation artist) - ChryssaChryssaChryssa Vardea Mavromichali is a Greek American artist who works in a wide variety of media. An American art pioneer in light art and luminist sculpture widely known for her neon, steel, aluminum and acrylic glass installations, she has always used the mononym Chryssa professionally...
(born 1933), sculptor - Iran DarroudiIran Darroudi-Education:Darroudi studied at Ecole Superier des Beaux-Arts in Paris, history of art at the École du Louvre in Paris, stained glass at the Royal Academy of Brussels, and television direction and production at the R.C.A. Institute in New York.-Career:...
(born 1936) (painter) - Irina DobrekovaIrina DobrekovaIrina Mikhailovna Dobrekova - Soviet Russian painter, Graphic artist, living and working in Saint Petersburg, a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists , regarded as one of the representatives of the Leningrad school of painting.- Biography :Irina Mikhailovna Dobrekova was born February...
(born 1931) (painter) - Marisol EscobarMarisol EscobarMaria Sol Escobar , otherwise known simply as Marisol, is a sculptor born in Paris of Venezuelan lineage, living in Europe, the United States and Caracas.-Education:...
(born 1930) (sculptor) - Audrey FlackAudrey FlackAudrey Flack is an American photorealist painter, printmaker, and sculptor.Flack studied fine arts in New York from 1948 to 1953. She earned a graduate degree and an honorary doctorate from Cooper Union in New York City, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Yale University. She studied art history at...
(born 1931) (painter, printmaker, sculptor) - Elisabeth FrinkElisabeth FrinkDame Elisabeth Jean Frink, DBE, CH, RA was an English sculptor and printmaker...
(1930–1993) (sculptor, printmaker) - Irina GetmanskayaIrina Getmanskaya'Irina Ivanovna Getmanskaya' - Soviet, Russians painter and art teacher, living and working in Saint Petersburg, a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists , regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad school of painting.- Biography :Irina Ivanovna Getmanskaya...
(born 1939) (painter) - Tatiana GorbTatiana GorbTatiana Vladimirovna Gorb is a Soviet Russian painter, graphic, art teacher, illustrator, living and working in Saint Petersburg, a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists , regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad school of painting, most famous for her portrait paintings.-...
(born 1935) (painter) - Elena GorokhovaElena GorokhovaElena Konstantinovna Gorokhova - Soviet Russian painter, living and working in Saint Petersburg, regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad School of Painting.- Biography :...
(born 1933) (painter) - Nancy GravesNancy GravesNancy Graves was an American sculptor, painter, printmaker, and sometime-filmmaker known for her focus on natural phenomena like camels or maps of the moon...
(1939–1995), sculptor, painter, printmaker - Eva HesseEva HesseEva Hesse , was a German-born American sculptor, known for her pioneering work in materials such as latex, fiberglass, and plastics. -Early life:Hesse was born into a family of observant Jews in Hamburg, Germany...
(1936–1970) (sculptor) - Nicole HollanderNicole HollanderNicole Hollander is an American cartoonist and writer. Her daily comic strip Sylvia is syndicated to newspapers nationally by Tribune Media Services and also can be seen on her blog, BadGirl Chats....
(born 1939) (illustration, comics) - Alison KnowlesAlison KnowlesAlison Knowles in New York City is an American visual artist known for her soundworks, installations, performances, and publications. Knowles was very active in the Fluxus movement, and continues to create work inspired by her Fluxus experience....
(born 1933) (FluxusFluxusFluxus—a name taken from a Latin word meaning "to flow"—is an international network of artists, composers and designers noted for blending different artistic media and disciplines in the 1960s. They have been active in Neo-Dada noise music and visual art as well as literature, urban planning,...
, performance artist) - Lee LozanoLee LozanoLee Lozano was an American painter, and visual and conceptual artist.-Early years:Born Lenore Knaster in Newark, New Jersey, she started to use the name "Lee" at the age of fourteen, often preferring to go by the simpler, if more enigmatic "E." She attended the University of Chicago as an...
(born 1930) (painter) - Totte MannesTotte MannesTotte Mannes is a renowned visual artist whose oil paintings are on display in many museums and collections. She lives in Madrid...
(born 1933) (painter) - Emily MasonEmily MasonEmily Mason is an American abstract painter.Mason is known for her work in Color Field painting and Lyrical Abstraction. She was born and raised in New York City, where she continues to reside....
(born 1932) (painter) - Valentina MonakhovaValentina MonakhovaValentina Vasilievna Monakhova - Soviet Russian painter, watercolorist, graphic artist, and art teacher, living and working in Saint Petersburg regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad school of painting.- Biography :...
(born 1932) (painter) - Charlotte MoormanCharlotte MoormanMadeline Charlotte Moorman Garside was an American cellist and performance artist.She was born in Little Rock, Arkansas. She studied cello from age ten and won a scholarship to Centenary College where she took her B.A. in music in 1955. She received her M.A...
(1933–1991), (performance artist, FluxusFluxusFluxus—a name taken from a Latin word meaning "to flow"—is an international network of artists, composers and designers noted for blending different artistic media and disciplines in the 1960s. They have been active in Neo-Dada noise music and visual art as well as literature, urban planning,...
) - Vera NazinaVera NazinaVera Ivanovna Nazina - soviet Russian painter, Graphic artist, living and working in Saint Petersburg, a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists , regarded by one art historian as one of representatives of the Leningrad school of painting.- Biography :Vera Ivanovna Nazina was born April...
(born 1931) (painter) - Carol Heifetz NeimanCarol Heifetz NeimanCarol Heifetz Neiman was a woman artist who was a member of the feminist art movement of the 1970s. Ms Neiman was a surrealist and a xerox artist. She also created etchings, and worked in pencil, pastels, and mixed media, and was a painter....
(born 1937) (xerox artist, printmaker, pastel, pencil, painter) - Yoko OnoYoko Onois a Japanese artist, musician, author and peace activist, known for her work in avant-garde art, music and filmmaking as well as her marriage to John Lennon...
(born 1933) (performance art, music) - Nancy PetyarreNancy PetyarreNancy Kunoth Petyarre was an Australian Aboriginal artist who lived in Utopia, 170 miles north east of Alice Springs...
(1934/38?-2009) (painter) - Deborah RemingtonDeborah RemingtonDeborah Remington was an American painter. She lived and worked in New York City and Pennsylvania. Remington was a veteran of more than 30 solo exhibitions and hundreds of group exhibitions including 3 Whitney Museum of American Art annuals...
(1930–2010) (painter) - Bridget RileyBridget RileyBridget Louise Riley CH CBE is an English painter who is one of the foremost proponents of Op art.-Early life:...
(born 1931) (painter) - Faith RinggoldFaith RinggoldFaith Ringgold is an African American artist, best known for her painted story quilts. She is professor emeritus in the University of California, San Diego visual art department.-Life and artwork:...
(born 1930) (painter) - Carolee SchneemannCarolee SchneemannCarolee Schneemann is an American visual artist, known for her discourses on the body, sexuality and gender. She received a B.A. from Bard College and an M.F.A. from the University of Illinois. Her work is primarily characterized by research into visual traditions, taboos, and the body of the...
(born 1939), performance artist - Marjorie StriderMarjorie StriderMarjorie Strider is an American painter, sculptor and performance artist best known for her three-dimensional paintings and site-specific soft sculpture installations.-Biography:...
(born 1930) (sculptor) - Anita Louise SuazoAnita Louise SuazoAnita Louise Suazo is a Native American potter from Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico, United States.-Background:She is the daughter of Jose Nerio Suazo and noted potter Belen Tapia . Anita’s mother Belen was one of the innovators of finely crafted polychrome redwares. She was a first cousin to...
(born 1937) (ceramics) - Atsuko TanakaAtsuko Tanakais a Japanese voice actress who works for Ezaki Productions. Her deep and sultry voice is often used to portray villainesses and mature female characters.-TV anime:*Angel Links *Black Cat *Berserk *Cowboy Bebop...
(1932–2005) (painting, sculpture, performance art, installation art)
1940–1949
- Marina AbramovićMarina AbramovicMarina Abramović is a Belgrade-born New York-based Serbian performance artist who began her career in the early 1970s. Active for over three decades, she has recently begun to describe herself as the “grandmother of performance art.” Abramović's work explores the relationship between performer and...
(born 1946) (performance artist) - Laurie AndersonLaurie AndersonLaura Phillips "Laurie" Anderson is an American experimental performance artist, composer and musician who plays violin and keyboards and sings in a variety of experimental music and art rock styles. Initially trained as a sculptor, Anderson did her first performance-art piece in the late 1960s...
(born 1947) (performance artist) - Heather AngelHeather Angel (photographer)Heather Hazel Angel MSc is a British nature photographer, author and television presenter...
(born 1941) (photographer, author) - Tina BarneyTina BarneyTina Barney is an American artist photographer best known for her large-scale portraits of her family and close friends, many of whom are well-to-do denizens of New York and New England....
(born 1945) (photographer, filmmaker) - Lynda BenglisLynda BenglisLynda Benglis is an American sculptor known for her wax paintings and poured latex sculptures. After earning a BFA from Newcomb College in 1964, Benglis moved to New York, where she lives and works today...
(born 1941) (sculptor) - Vivienne BinnsVivienne BinnsVivienne Joyce Binns OAM is an Australian artistBorn in Wyong, New South Wales, Binns studied art at East Sydney Technical College and the National Art School. Her first solo exhibition was in 1967 at Watters Gallery in Sydney. During the 1970s she worked in vitreous enamel, was active in the...
(born 1940) (painter, enamels) - Melinda BordelonMelinda BordelonMelinda Jane Bordelon was an American painter and illustrator whose professional work adorned magazine covers, articles, and advertisements—as well as album covers, book covers, and video game packaging—produced from the early 1970s through the 1990s...
(born 194?) (painter, illustrator) - Rhea CarmiRhea CarmiRhea Carmi , is an Israeli-American abstract expressionist and mixed-media artist.-Life and work:...
(born 1942) (abstract expressionistAbstract expressionismAbstract expressionism was an American post–World War II art movement. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve worldwide influence and put New York City at the center of the western art world, a role formerly filled by Paris...
and mixed-mediaMixed mediaMixed media, in visual art, refers to an artwork in the making of which more than one medium has been employed.There is an important distinction between "mixed-media" artworks and "multimedia art". Mixed media tends to refer to a work of visual art that combines various traditionally distinct...
artist) - Vera ChinoVera ChinoVera Chino Ely is a Native American potter from Acoma Pueblo, New Mexico. She is the youngest daughter of Marie Z. Chino, who was well known for her excellent fine-line pottery. Very little information has been published on Vera...
(b. 1943), Acoma PuebloAcoma PuebloAcoma Pueblo is a Native American pueblo approximately 60 miles west of Albuquerque, New Mexico in the United States. Three reservations make up Acoma Pueblo: Sky City , Acomita, and McCartys. The Acoma Pueblo tribe is a federally recognized tribal entity...
ceramic artist - Susan CrileSusan CrileSusan Crile is an artist, primarily a painter and printmaker. She has had over 50 solo exhibitions, and her work is in the collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Denver Art Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the Hirshhorn Museum, the Phillips Collection, and...
(born 1942) (painter) - Lynn Davis (born 1944) (photographer)
- Bracha Ettinger (born 1948) (painter, photographer, psychoanalyst, writer)
- Valie ExportValie ExportValie Export is an Austrian artist...
1940 (performance artist, video installations, photography) - Carole FeuermanCarole FeuermanCarole A. Feuerman is an American artist and hyper-realistic sculptor. She currently lives and works in New York, New York. Feuerman is most known for her resin sculptures painted in oil, but she also utilizes other media such as bronze and stone...
(born 1945) (sculptor) - Helen HardinHelen HardinHelen Hardin was an American painter.-Background:...
(1943–1984) (painter) - Masumi HayashiMasumi Hayashi (photographer)Dr. Masumi Hayashi was an American photographer and artist who taught art at Cleveland State University, in Cleveland, Ohio, for 24 years...
(1945–2006) (photographer) - Miyako IshiuchiMiyako Ishiuchi, is a renowned Japanese photographer.Ishiuchi has produced collections of photography since the late 1970s. Her first book was a study of Yokosuka, where she grew up....
(born 1947) (photographer) - Gayane KhachaturianGayane KhachaturianGayane Khachaturian was a Georgian-Armenian painter and graphic artist.-Biography:Gayane Khachaturian was born into an Armenian family in Tbilisi, capital of Georgia, and studied art at the Nikoladze Art School. She became seriously involved in the art scene after graduating from the Secondary...
(1942–2009) (painter) - Barbara KrugerBarbara KrugerBarbara Kruger is an American conceptual artist. Much of her work consists of black-and-white photographs overlaid with declarative captions—in white-on-red Futura Bold Oblique or Helvetica Ultra Condensed...
(born 1945) (conceptual artist) - Annie LeibovitzAnnie LeibovitzAnna-Lou "Annie" Leibovitz is an American portrait photographer.-Early life and education:Born in Waterbury, Connecticut, Leibovitz is the third of six children. She is a third-generation American whose great-grandparents were Jewish immigrants, from Central and Eastern Europe. Her father's...
(born 1949) (photographer) - Markéta LuskačováMarkéta LuskacováMarkéta Luskačová is a Czech photographer known for her series of photographs taken in Slovakia, Britain and elsewhere. Considered one of the best Czech social photographers to date, since the 1990s she has photographed children in Czech Republic, Slovakia, and also Poland.- Biography :In 1968...
(born 1944) (photographer) - Mary Ellen MarkMary Ellen MarkMary Ellen Mark is an American photographer known for her photojournalism, portraiture, and advertising photography. She has had 16 collections of her work published and has been exhibited at galleries and museums worldwide. She has received numerous accolades, including three Robert F...
(born 1940) (photographer) - Linda McCartneyLinda McCartneyLinda Louise McCartney, Lady McCartney was an American photographer, musician and animal rights activist. Her father and mother were Lee Eastman and Louise Sara Lindner Eastman....
(1942–1998) (photographer) - Susan MeiselasSusan MeiselasSusan Meiselas is an American documentary photographer. She has been associated with Magnum Photos since 1976 and a full member since 1980. Her works have been published in newspapers and magazines including The New York Times, The Times, Time, Geo and Paris Match...
(born 1948) (photographer) - Ana MendietaAna MendietaAna Mendieta was a Cuban American performance artist, sculptor, painter and video artist who is known for her "earth-body" art work....
(1948–1985) (performance art, sculptor) - Sheila MullenSheila Mullen (artist)Sheila Mullen is a Scottish painter who lives and works in Scotland. She was born on 24 January 1942 in Glasgow, Scotland. She grew up near Auchtermuchty, Fife, Scotland. She attended the Glasgow School of Art and started painting professionally in 1978. Her works are in the permanent collections...
(born 1942) (painter) - Elizabeth MurrayElizabeth Murray (artist)Elizabeth Murray was an American painter, printmaker and draughtsman. Her works are in many major public collections, including those of the Solomon R...
(1940–2007) (painter, printmaker) - Gladys NilssonGladys NilssonGladys M. Nilsson is an American artist, one of the original Chicago Imagists, a group in the 1960s and 1970s who turned to representational art...
(born 1940) (painter) - Guity NovinGuity NovinGuity Novin is an Iranian-Canadian figurative painter, and graphic designer residing in Canada. She classifies her work as Transpressionism, a movement she has introduced.Her works are in private and public collections worldwide....
(born 1944) (painter) - OrlanOrlanORLAN is a French artist, born May 30, 1947 in Saint-Étienne, Loire. She lives and works in Los Angeles, New York, and Paris. She was invited to be a scholar in residence at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, for the 2006-2007 academic year...
1947 (performance artist) - Gloria PetyarreGloria PetyarreGloria Petyarre is an Australian Aboriginal artist from the Anmatyerre community, just north of Alice Springs...
(born 1945) (painter) - Adrian PiperAdrian PiperAdrian Margaret Smith Piper is a first-generation conceptual artist and analytic philosopher who was born in New York City and lived for many years on Cape Cod, Massachusetts before emigrating from the United States...
(born 1948) (conceptual artist) - Sylvia PlachySylvia PlachySylvia Plachy is a Hungarian/American photographer.Plachy was born in Budapest, Hungary. Her Czech Jewish mother was in hiding in fear of Nazi persecution during World War II. Her father was a Hungarian Roman Catholic aristocrat and she was raised in his faith.Plachy's family moved to New York...
(born 1943) (photographer) - Suellen RoccaSuellen RoccaSuellen Rocca is a Chicago artist, one of the original Chicago Imagists, a group in the 1960s and 1970s who turned to representational art. She exhibited with them at the Hyde Park Art Center from 1966 through 1969....
(born 1943) (painter) - Barbara RosenthalBarbara RosenthalBarbara Rosenthal is an American avant-garde artist and writer. Her existential themes have contributed to contemporary art and philosophy...
(born 1948) (photographer) - Barbara RossiBarbara RossiBarbara Rossi is a Chicago artist, one of the original Chicago Imagists, a group in the 1960s and 1970s who turned to representational art. She first exhibited with them at the Hyde Park Art Center in 1969...
(born 1940) (painter) - Ursula von RydingsvardUrsula von RydingsvardUrsula von Rydingsvard born in Deensen, Germany is a sculptor who has been working in Brooklyn, New York for the past 30 years. She received her MFA from Columbia University in 1975 after which time she started to work with cedar, a material through which she has explored a wide range of...
(born 1942) (sculptor) - Barbara SchwartzBarbara SchwartzBarbara Schwartz was an American abstract artist and art teacher.Schwartz was born in Philadelphia. She studied at Carnegie Mellon University for her BFA. She moved to New York and had her first solo show in 1975 at the Willard Gallery...
(1949–2006) painter, sculptor - Sandy SkoglundSandy SkoglundSandy Skoglund is an American photographer and installation artist.Skoglund creates surrealist images by building elaborate sets or tableaux, furnishing them with carefully selected small children and other objects, a process of which takes her months to complete. Finally, she photographs the set,...
(born 1946) (photographer) - Hollis SiglerHollis SiglerHollis Sigler was a Chicago-based artist whose paintings addressed her life with breast cancer. She died of the disease in 2001, at the age of 53. She received degrees from both Moore College of Art and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago...
(1948–2001) (painter) - Joan SnyderJoan SnyderJoan Snyder is an American painter from New York. She is a MacArthur Fellow and a Guggenheim Fellow. Her paintings have been exhibited at several museums, including the de Saisset Museum and the Jewish Museum.-Painting styles:...
(born 1940), painter - Annegret Soltau (born 1946), graphic, performance, video, photocollage
- Pat SteirPat SteirPat Steir is an American painter and printmaker.-Education:Steir was born in 1940 in Newark, New Jersey, and currently lives in New York City. She attended the Pratt Institute in New York from 1956 to 1958, and Boston University College of Fine Arts from 1958 to 1960. She then returned to Pratt,...
(born 1940), painter - Carol SuttonCarol Sutton (artist)Carol Lorraine Sutton; born September 3, 1945, is a multi-disciplined artist born in Norfolk, Virginia, USA and now living in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She is an award winning painter whose works on canvas and paper have been shown in 32 solo exhibits as well as being included in 94 group shows...
(born 1945), painter - Joyce TennesonJoyce TennesonJoyce Tenneson is an American fine art photographer known for her distinctive style of photography, which often involves nude or semi-nude women. Tenneson shoots primarily with the Polaroid 20x24 camera...
(born 1945) (photographer) - Mym TumaMym TumaBorn in Berwyn, Illinois, Mym Tuma aka Marilynn Thuma, studied at Northwestern University in Evanston; at Stanford University in California and at New York University. After graduation, she experimented with three dimensional works in her studio that she set up in Lake Chapala, Mexico.An exhibit...
(born 1940) (painter, and mixed-mediaMixed mediaMixed media, in visual art, refers to an artwork in the making of which more than one medium has been employed.There is an important distinction between "mixed-media" artworks and "multimedia art". Mixed media tends to refer to a work of visual art that combines various traditionally distinct...
artist) - Hannah WilkeHannah WilkeHannah Wilke was an American painter, sculptor, photographer, video artist and performance artist.-Biography:...
(1940–1993) (sculptor, photographer)
1950–1959
- Eija-Liisa AhtilaEija-Liisa AhtilaEija-Liisa Ahtila is a video artist and photographer. She lives and works in Helsinki.In 1998 Eija-Liisa Ahtila participated in the second edition of Manifesta. She was the winner of the inaugural Vincent Award in 2000. In 2002 she had a solo show at Tate Modern, and in 2006 her multi-screen video...
(born 1959) (videographer, photographer) - Peggy AhweshPeggy AhweshPeggy Ahwesh is an American avant-garde filmmaker and experimental video artist. She received her B.F.A. from Antioch College. Ahwesh's work has been shown at the Solomon R...
(born 1954) (filmmaker) - Davida AllenDavida AllenDavida Frances Allen , is an Australian painter, film maker and writer.-Career:Allen studied under Betty Churcher at the Stuartholme School, Brisbane and later under Roy Churcher at Brisbane Central Technical College...
(born 1951) (painter, filmmaker) - Cecilia AlvarezCecilia AlvarezCecilia Alvarez is an influential Chicana artist known for her oil paintings and murals depicting themes of feminism, poverty, and environmental degradation in the United States and Latin America. Las Cuatas Diego, arguably Alvarez's most famous and recognizable painting, has been featured in...
(born 1950) (painter, muralist) - Annie AntoneAnnie AntoneAnnie Antone is a Native American Tohono O'odham basket weaver from Gila Bend, Arizona-Background:Annie Antone was born in Tucson, Arizona in 1955. She learned how to weave baskets from her mother, Irene Antone. Annie began at the age of 19 and sold her first basket for $10. She gave the money to...
(born 1955) (Tohono O'odham basket weaver) - Anne ApplebyAnne ApplebyAnne Appleby is an American color field/landscape painter. Her works, always bearing titles from the natural world---"Sweet Pine", "Summer Aspen", "Gem"---are simple arrangements of colored canvas panels. Each panel is, at a glance, monochromatic, but closer inspection reveals deep and luminous...
(born 1954) (painter) - Lynda BarryLynda BarryLynda Barry is an American cartoonist and author. One of the most successful non-mainstream American cartoonists, Barry is perhaps best known for her weekly comic strip Ernie Pook's Comeek. Barry's cartoons often view family life from the perspective of pre-teen girls from the wrong side of the...
(born 1956) (illustrator, comics) - Sophie CalleSophie CalleSophie Calle is a French writer, photographer, installation artist, and conceptual artist. Calle's work is distinguished by its use of arbitrary sets of constraints, and evokes the French literary movement of the 1960s known as Oulipo. Her work frequently depicts human vulnerability, and examines...
(born 1953) (photographer, author, installation artist, conceptual artist) - Joanne GairJoanne GairJoanne "Kiwi Jo" or "Kiwi Joe" Gair is a New Zealand-born and raised make-up artist and body painter whose body paintings have been featured in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue from 1999 to the 2011 edition...
(born 1958) (painter, body art) - Anne GeddesAnne GeddesAnne Geddes, MNZM, is an Australian-born photographer, clothing designer and businesswoman who now lives and works in New Zealand. She is known for her stylized depictions of babies and motherhood. Typical images show babies or young children dressed as fairies and fairytale creatures, flowers, or...
(born 19560 (photographer) - Nan GoldinNan GoldinNancy "Nan" Goldin is an American photographer.-Life and work:Goldin was born in Washington, D.C., and grew up in the Boston, Massachusetts suburb of Lexington, to middle class Jewish parents whose ideas, moderately liberal and progressive, were put to the test when on April 12, 1965 their eldest...
(born 1953) (photographer) - Akiko HatsuAkiko Hatsuis a Japanese manga artist born on December 16, 1959, in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. From the time she was in high school, she assisted her older sister, professional manga artist Yukiko Kai. After graduating high school, she began working for a printing company in Kanazawa City, but she...
(born 1959) (illustrator, comics) - Roni HornRoni HornRoni Horn is an American visual artist and writer. Horn's oeuvre, which spans almost four decades, encompasses sculpture, drawing, photography, language, and site-specific installation. The granddaughter of Eastern European Jewish immigrants, she was born in New York and lives and works in New York...
(born 1955) (photographer) - Mona HatoumMona HatoumMona Hatoum is a video artist and installation artist of Palestinian origin, who lives in London.- Lebanon :...
(born 1952) (video, installation) - Leiko IkemuraLeiko Ikemurais a Japanese-Swiss painter and sculptor.-Biography:Leiko Ikemura left her country to study in Spain from 1973 to 1978 at the Academia de Bellas Artes in Granada and Seville. In 1979, Ikemura moved to Zurich to live and worked there for 4 years. The first of her mature paintings developed around 1980...
(born 1951) (painter, sculptor) - Vanessa Paukeigope Jennings (b. 1952), KiowaKiowaThe Kiowa are a nation of American Indians and indigenous people of the Great Plains. They migrated from the northern plains to the southern plains in the late 17th century. In 1867, the Kiowa moved to a reservation in southwestern Oklahoma...
-Apache-Gila River Pima bead and textile artist - Maya LinMaya LinMaya Ying Lin is an American artist who is known for her work in sculpture and landscape art. She is the designer of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.-Personal life:...
(born 1959), installation artist - Marita LiuliaMarita LiuliaMarita Liulia is a Finnish media artist.Her production includes media art works, photography, painting and stage performances....
(born 1957) (photographer, digital and interactive media) - Sally MannSally MannSally Mann is an American photographer, best known for her large black-and-white photographs—at first of her young children, then later of landscapes suggesting decay and death.-Early life and education:...
(born 1951) (photographer) - Shirin NeshatShirin NeshatShirin Neshat شیرین نشاط is an Iranian visual artist who lives in New York. She is known primarily for her work in film, video and photography.-Background:Neshat's parents were upper middle-class...
(born 1957) (filmmaker, videographer, photographer) - Deborah NilandDeborah NilandDeborah Niland is an Australian artist, well known as a writer and illustrator of children's books. Some of her most popular books include Annie's Chair, When The Wind Changed, Mulga Bill's Bicycle, and Chatterbox...
(born 1950) (painter, illustrator) - Kilmeny NilandKilmeny NilandKilmeny Niland was an Australian artist and illustrator. While best known for her children's book illustrations, she worked in a wide range of genres, including animation, wildlife art, miniatures, portraits, cards and prints...
(1950–2009) (painter, illustrator) - Cindy ShermanCindy ShermanCindy Sherman is an American photographer and film director, best known for her conceptual portraits. Sherman currently lives and works in New York City. In 1995, she was the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship. She is represented by Sprüth Magers Berlin London in and Metro Pictures gallery in...
(born 1954) (photographer, filmmaker) - Li ShuangLi Shuang (artist)Li Shuang , born in Beijing in 1957, is a contemporary Chinese artist.Li Shuang’s works testify to her painful personal and artistic journey. She grew up in Beijing during the Cultural Revolution within a family of intellectuals...
(born 1957) (painter) - Jiang ShuoJiang ShuoJiang Shuo is a Chinese contemporary sculptor.-Biography:Jiang Shuo was born in 1958 in Beijing, China. She studied sculpture at the Central Academy of Arts and Design, now the Academy of Fine Arts, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China from 1978–1982, and was one of the few women to do so...
(born 1958) (sculptor) - Renee StoutRenee StoutRenée Stout is a contemporary artist known for assemblage artworks dealing with her personal history and African American heritage....
(born 1958) (photographer, installation art) - Rumiko TakahashiRumiko Takahashiis a Japanese manga artist.Takahashi is one of the wealthiest individuals, and the most affluent manga artists in Japan. The manga she creates are popular worldwide, where they have been translated into a variety of languages...
(born 1957) (illustrator, author) - Zoja TrofimiukZoja TrofimiukZoja Trofimiuk is an Australian sculptor and printmaker, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia. She specializes in cast glass; her studio is in Melbourne. Zbych Trofimiuk, an Australian actor, is her son.-Education:...
(born 1952) (sculptor, printmaker) - Carrie Mae WeemsCarrie Mae WeemsCarrie Mae Weems is an award-winning photographer and artist. Her photographs, films, and videos have been displayed in over 50 exhibitions in the United States and abroad and focus on serious issues that face African Americans today, such as racism, gender relations, politics, and personal identity...
(born 1953) (photographer, filmmaker) - Emmi WhitehorseEmmi WhitehorseEmmi Whitehorse is a Native American painter.She was born in Crownpoint, New Mexico and is a member of the Navajo Nation. She currently lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico....
(born 1957) (painter) - Francesca WoodmanFrancesca WoodmanFrancesca Woodman was an American photographer best known for her black and white pictures featuring herself and female models. Many of her photographs show young women who are nude, who are blurred , who are merging with their surroundings, or whose faces are obscured...
(1958–1981) (photographer) - Zhang XinZhang Xin (artist)Zhang Xin is a contemporary Chinese romanticism and abstract painter. She has made a Dream of Flight series of paintings, which are often monochromatic, stylized souls of abstract flora, usually with cracked subjects, high contrast colors, to express her understanding of abstract romanticism...
(born 1953) (painter)
1960–1969
- Jessica AbelJessica AbelJessica Abel is an American comic book writer and artist, known as the creator of such works as Life Sucks, Drawing Words & Writing Pictures, Soundtrack, La Perdida, Mirror, Window, Radio: An Illustrated Guide , and the omnibus series Artbabe.Abel has stated that her major work is not...
(born 1969) (illustrator, author) - Margarete BagshawMargarete BagshawMargarete Bagshaw is an American artist. She is the daughter of artist Helen Hardin and grand daughter of artist Pablita Velarde. Together, they form one of the only three generational female painting dynasties known...
(born 1964) (painter) - Cecily BrownCecily BrownCecily Brown, born 1969 in London, is a British painter. She has a great respect for art history and her works reveal her reverence and high regard for artists such as Francisco de Goya, Nicolas Poussin, Willem de Kooning, and Joan Mitchell while incorporating into her works her distinct female...
(born 1969), painter - Carolyn ColeCarolyn ColeCarolyn Cole is a staff photographer for the Los Angeles Times. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography in 2004, for her coverage of the siege of Monrovia, the capital of Liberia.-Biography:...
(born 1961) (photographer) - Inka EssenhighInka EssenhighInka Essenhigh is a painter based in New York.Essenhigh studied at the Columbus College of Art and Design in Ohio and the School of Visual Arts in New York ....
(born 1969), painter - Anna FoxAnna FoxAnna Fox is a British photographer. She studied at Farnham, Surrey, and first came to attention with her 1988 documentary study of London office life on the mid-1980s, Work Stations: Office Life in London, published by the left-wing Camerawork...
(born 1961) (photographer) - Brita GranströmBrita GranströmBrita Granström is a Swedish painter and illustrator living and working in Great Britain.As a painter she is represented by The University Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne.-Works:...
(born 1969) (painter, illustrator, author) - Chantal JoffeChantal JoffeChantal Joffe is an English artist based in London. Her often large-scale paintings generally depict women and children. In 2006 she received the prestigious Charles Wollaston Award from the Royal Academy.-Life and education:...
(born 1969) (painter) - Zoe Leonard (born 1961) (photographer, visual artist)
- Mariko MoriMariko MoriMariko Mori is a Japanese video and photographic artist. While studying at Bunka Fashion College, she worked as a fashion model in the late 1980s. This strongly influenced her early works, such as Play with Me, in which she takes control of her role in the image, becoming an exotic, alien...
(born 1967) (performance, installation) - Audrey NiffeneggerAudrey NiffeneggerAudrey Niffenegger is an American writer, artist and academic.-Writing:A film version of Niffenegger's debut novel, The Time Traveler's Wife , starring Eric Bana and Rachel McAdams, was released in August 2009.She has also written a graphic novel, or "novel in pictures" as Niffenegger calls it,...
(born 1963) (printmaker, author) - Catherine OpieCatherine OpieCatherine Opie is an American artist specializing in issues within documentary photography. Throughout her work she has investigated aspects of community, making portraits of many groups including LGBT community; surfers; and most recently high school football players. She is also interested in...
(born 1961) (photographer) - Lique SchootLique SchootLique Schoot is a Dutch painter and photographer of self-portraits. She was educated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Arnhem .- Awards and Nominations :*2001 - Nomination 13th Painting Award Boechout, Belgium...
(born 1969) (painter, photographer, installation) - Lorna SimpsonLorna SimpsonLorna Simpson is an African American artist and photographer who made her name in the 1980s and 1990s with artworks such as Guarded Conditions and Square Deal. Her work often portrays black women combined with text to express contemporary society's relationship with race, ethnicity and sex...
(born 1960) (photographer) - Roxanne SwentzellRoxanne SwentzellRoxanne Swentzell is a well-known clay sculptor from Santa Clara Pueblo. She attended the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico and later the Portland Art Museum School in Portland, Oregon....
(born 1962) (sculptor) - Tomoko TakahashiTomoko TakahashiTomoko Takahashi is a Japanese artist born in Tokyo in 1966 and based in London, UK. She studied at Tama University, Goldsmiths College and the Slade School of Fine Art. She first came to attention when she won the EAST award at EASTinternational in 1997...
(born 1966) (installation art) - Jill ThompsonJill ThompsonJill Thompson is an American comic book writer and illustrator. Probably better known for her work on Neil Gaiman's The Sandman characters and her own Scary Godmother series, she has also worked on The Invisibles, Swamp Thing, and Wonder Woman.-Career:Jill Thompson illustrated The Sandman story...
(born 1966) (illustrator, author) - Verónica Ruiz de VelascoVeronica Ruiz de VelascoVeronica Ruiz de Velasco is a neo-figurative painter of Mexican origin living in the United States. She was a disciple of Teodulo Romulo, Rufino Tamayo, Jean Dubuffet, and Gilberto Aceves Navarro.-Early life:...
(born 1968) (painter) - Kara WalkerKara WalkerKara Walker is a contemporary African American artist who explores race, gender, sexuality, violence and identity in her work. She is best known for her room-size tableaux of black cut-paper silhouettes, such as The Means to an End--A Shadow Drama in Five Acts.-Biography:Walker was born in...
(born 1969), collage artist, painter, printmaker, installation artist - Rachel WhitereadRachel WhitereadRachel Whiteread, CBE is an English artist, best known for her sculptures, which typically take the form of casts. She won the annual Turner Prize in 1993—the first woman to win the prize....
(born 1963) (sculptor) - Melanie YazzieMelanie YazzieMelanie Yazzie is a Navajo sculptor, painter and printmaker.-Background:Melanie Yazzie was born in Ganado, Arizona in 1966. She is Navajo of the , born for . She grew up on the Navajo Reservation....
(born 1966) (sculptor, painter, printmaker)
1970–1979
- HiromixHiromix, better known as Hiromix , is a Japanese photographer and artist.-Biography:Born in 1976, Hiromix rose to fame in Japan after winning the 11th New Cosmos of Photography award, hosted by the photographic manufacturer Canon, in March 1995. Hiromix was nominated by Nobuyoshi Araki, one of Japan's...
(born 1976) (photographer) - Julie MehretuJulie MehretuJulie Mehretu is an artist, best known for her densely-layered abstract paintings and prints. She lives and works in New York City...
(born 1970) (painter) - Jenny SavilleJenny SavilleJenny Saville is a contemporary British painter; best known as one of the Young British Artists. She is known for her large-scale painted depictions of naked women.-Life and career:Saville works and lives in Oxford, England...
(born 1970) (painter)
See also
- Women artistsWomen artistsWomen artists have been involved in making art in most times and places. Often certain certain media are associated with women, particularly textile arts; however, these gender roles in art change in different cultures and communities...
- List of female comics creators
- List of Lulu Award winners
- Women in photographyWomen in photographyWomen have made significant contributions to photography since its inception.-Notable female photographers:* Berenice Abbott 1898-1991* Karimeh Abbud 1896-1955* Heather Angel 1941-* Eleanor Antin 1935-* Diane Arbus 1923-1971* Eve Arnold 1913-...
- Photo-SecessionPhoto-SecessionThe Photo-Secession was an early 20th century movement that promoted photography as a fine art in general and photographic pictorialism in particular. A group of photographers, led by Alfred Stieglitz and F...
- Tenth Street galleriesTenth street galleriesThe Tenth Street galleries was a collective term for the co-operative galleries that operated mainly in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York in the 1950s and 1960s. The galleries were artist run and generally operated on very low budgets, often without any staff. Some artists became members...
- Depiction of women artists in art history
- Beaver Hall GroupBeaver Hall GroupThe Beaver Hall Group was a Montreal based assemblage of Canadian female painters formed in May 1920 by artists who had met while studying art at a school run by Art Association of Montreal ....