Anne d’Harnoncourt
Ground-breaking female director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1982-2008.
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Yvonne Hackenbroch
British Museum and Metropolitan Museum of Art curator, Renaissance jewelry specialist.
Winifred Lamb
British classical art historian, museum curator and archaeologist.
Anne Coffin Hanson
Manet and Futurism scholar; first female full-professor in at Yale University.
Ilse Twardowski-Conrat
Austrian sculptor
Teresa Feodorowna Ries
Hungarian-born Austrian sculptor and painter
Alison Knowles
Alison Knowles’s art gives us many ideas that we now take for granted as aspects of contemporary artistic culture.
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith is one of the most influential contemporary Native American artists, and one of the first Native American women to gain a foothold in the contemporary artworld.
Maggi Hambling
English artist Maggi Hambling earned her formidable reputation on the back of a series of vivid portraits; sublime land and seascapes; and for three highly unconventional (and highly controversial) memorial sculptures.
Marianne Brandt
Marianne Brandt is one of the most important artists of the Bauhaus School, and by extension, one of the most influential of all early 20th century designers.