Harriet Kavanagh
1800s Irish artist, traveller, and antiquarian
1800s Irish artist, traveller, and antiquarian
20th century Irish landscape and still life painter
Mexican writer and visual artist
Heiress, artist and fashion designer
Digital artist and author of one of the first web design textbooks in 1996
British artist
New Zealand-born Australian sculptor and assemblage artist
British painter
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.
When she published her own book, Quilts: Their Story and How to Make Them, in 1915, the country’s first book dedicated to quilt history became a bestseller. It also helped legitimize quilting as an art and as an important topic of scholarly research.