Harriet Kavanagh
1800s Irish artist, traveller, and antiquarian
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Harriet Kirkwood
20th century Irish landscape and still life painter
Rose Wylie
British painter
Janet Sobel
In 1947, Jackson Pollock created an artform out of dripping and flinging paint across canvases—except a Ukrainian-American grandmother, Janet Sobel, had already been doing it for years.
Minnie Pwerle
Indigenous Australian artist
Lubaina Himid
In 2017, 63-year-old Tanzanian-British artist Lubaina Himid became the oldest artist to win the acclaimed Turner Prize, as well as the first woman of African descent.
Gloria Petyarre
Known for her beautiful “medicine leaf” motif, Petyarre first began gaining attention in the late 1970s for her batik works.
Anne Guéret
1700s French painter
Frances Kelly
20th century Irish painter and political spouse
Flora Mitchell
20th century Irish painter