Ann Sonia Medalie
Latvian-American muralist known as the “queen of fish” for making the mural fish shimmer with metallic powders and transparent glazes.
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Shirley Staschen Triest
Coit Tower muralist and labor protester
Mabel Dwight
After years of successful work as an illustrator in New York, she began making lithographs in 1927, at the age of fifty-two. In 1933 she participated with the Contemporary Print Group in creating two influential portfolios of realist prints.
Daisy Rossi
Daisy Mary Rossi was a leading Western Australian artist, designer and writer.
Onorata Rodiani
15th century Italian painter and soldier
Kay WalkingStick
New York-based artist and member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma
Dr Stanisława Nikodym
Stanisława Nikodym was the first Polish woman to obtain the degree of Ph.D. in mathematics. She wrote papers on analysis, some with her husband Otton Nikodym. She is also known as a painter.
Gertrude Fiske
Painter Gertrude Fiske was a co-founder of the Guild of Boston Artists in 1914 and the Boston Society of Etchers in 1917. She was also the first woman named to the Massachusetts Art Commission, as well as a successful golfer.
Ethel McClellan Plummer
The first woman to publish a cartoon in the New Yorker, Ethel McClellan Plummer made cover designs and illustrations in the 1920s and 1930s for magazines of sophisticated fashion such as Vogue and Vanity Fair, as well as publications with broader appeal such as Life, Women’s Home Companion, Shadowland, and the New York Tribune.
Elizabeth Olds
American printmaker, illustrator and painter