Gloria Vanderbilt
Heiress, artist and fashion designer
Category Archives: Visual Art
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Lynda Weinman
Digital artist and author of one of the first web design textbooks in 1996
Phyllida Barlow
British artist
Rosalie Gascoigne
New Zealand-born Australian sculptor and assemblage artist
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.
Marie Webster
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.
Minnie Pwerle
Indigenous Australian artist
Sonia Boyce
Sonia Boyce became the first woman of African descent to represent the U.K. at the Venice Biennale in 2022, the year she turned 60.
Yvonne Koolmatrie
Indigenous Australian artist known for her traditional weaving of items like eel traps