Anna Ancher
Danish artist closely affiliated with the Skagen Painters, a vibrant artist’s community situated on the northern tip of Jutland, Denmark.
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Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot
1800s French painter known for her genre scenes.
Suzanne Duchamp-Crotti
Significant figure in French Dadaism who made important contributions to Paris Dada and modernism as a painter, collagist, sculptor, and draughtsperson.
Soshana Afroyim
Austrian-Jewish artist known for her Modernist work who dedicated her life to art, traveling extensively to exhibit her creations worldwide.
Tatiana Markus
When Kyiv fell under German occupation in 1941, Markus joined the underground resistance. She carried out sabotage missions, often disguised as innocent gestures, like throwing a grenade hidden as a bouquet. Using a false identity as “Marcousisse,” she worked at an officer’s dining facility, poisoning SS officers’ meals and eliminating a valuable Gestapo informant.
Margaretha van Godewijk
Prominent Dutch Golden Age poet and a painter.
Lois Mailou Jones
Harlem Renaissance artist and educator
Amelia Curran
Irish artist
Truus Oversteegen
Dutch sculptor and painter who she played a significant role in the anti-Nazi Dutch Resistance
Uemura Shōen
Master of Meiji, Taishō, and early Shōwa period Japanese painting. Revealing her brilliance through the alias Uemura Tsune, Shōen’s journey beautifully entwines innovation and tradition.