Judith Baca
Chicana lesbian feminist artist
Chicana lesbian feminist artist
Irish miniature portrait painter
Andree Ruellan, a New Yorker of French descent, was a prominent artist of the twentieth century.
Aboriginal Australian artist
Chinese-American artist known for re-working historic Chinese photographs into haunting, visually arresting paintings and mixed media pieces.
Nina Allender was a feminist, a suffragist, and an artist with a shrewd sense of humor and an innovative perspective on women. Her drawings changed the course of one of the most important civil rights movements in the history of the United States.
A creative and resourceful self-taught artist, Nellie Mae Rowe gained national recognition for her work during the last decade of her life.
American sculptor, painter, and educator
Emily Lansingh Muir, the first woman to serve on the US Commission of Fine Arts, was a painter who drew her inspiration from the life and landscape of coastal Maine.
In 1938, Nora Heysen was the first woman to win the Archibald Prize for Portraiture.