Hilda Petrie worked with her husband, the renowned William Flinders Petrie, “but she never published anything in her own name, and her contributions were never formally acknowledged. Her husband wrote the reports, headed the excavation teams and garnered all the credit for their finds.”
The model for some of the most famous Pre-Raphaelite paintings hanging in museums, as well as a poet and artist who produced more than 100 watercolours, sketches, and drawings
Frances Grimes was an artist best known for her marble portrait busts and delicate low relief sculptures.
20th century Cochiti Pueblo potter
American painter
As a trained structural and architectural designer, Carmen Baron sees the lines, colors, and proportions needed to create intricately designed custom-made costumes for young Baile Folklórico dancers throughout the state of Arizona.
Mexican painter, poet, photographer, media and conceptual artist.
At the German art school Bauhaus, women like Anni Albers and Otti Berger were shunted into the textile department, prevented from studying other disciplines. Berger became one of the few Bauhaus artists to have her designs patented. Although segregated, artists like Albers and Berger changed the way textiles are viewed as an artistic medium.
Special effects designer Milicent Patrick created one of the most iconic film monsters of her era—the Creature from the Black Lagoon (1953).
For more than 300 years, Flemish painter Michaelina Wautier’s portraits were credited to male artists such as Jacob Van Oost or were simply forgotten in the storage rooms of museums.