Frances Simpson Stevens
In her early 20s, Frances Simpson Stevens was the lone American at the center of the Futurist movement. Today, however, only one of her paintings has been preserved and few people know her name.
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Gabrièle Buffet-Picabia
Gabrielle Buffet-Picabia might be the most quoted witness of the Dada movement, yet she is one of the least studied. Her name is most often found in the footnotes of books, next to citations for her detailed comments and stories on the charismatic male leaders of the Dada movement.
Hermine David
Often diminished to a footnote in the life of her husband, the painter Jules Pascin, Hermine David was an artist in her own right who gained recognition in the early twentieth century. She worked in a variety of media and styles, including watercolor, pastel, charcoal, drypoint, and lithography.
Kathleen Fraser
American poet, writer, and visual artist
Mabel Dodge Luhan
A wealthy American patron of the twentieth-century arts movement, Mabel Evan Dodge Sterne Luhan (Mabel Dodge) hosted modernist salons in Arcetri, Italy (outside of Florence), New York City, and Taos, New Mexico, presiding over her guests as an intellectual provocateur, a financial supporter, organizer, and creative contributor for some of the most radical figures and ideas of the early twentieth century.
Mina Loy
She consorted with the major 20th-century avant-garde movements—Futurism, Dada, and Surrealism, and wrote poems, plays, and experimental prose; created drawings, paintings, sculptures, and assemblages; designed lampshades, toys, Christmas lights, cleaning tools, and corselets.
Peggy Guggenheim
After fleeing Nazi France in 1942, she opened the gallery Art of This Century in New York City. In 1943, Guggenheim held the first collection of the soon to be star of her gallery, Jackson Pollock.
Beatrice Wood
As a female artist in the male-centric Dadaist movement, Wood posed a conundrum, resisting the labels of “female muse” and “feminist artist.”
Mina Arndt
Artist whose work is represented in private collections and galleries in New Zealand and in galleries in England, Australia and France.
Kate Sperrey
Acclaimed as ‘one of the best portrait painters New Zealand has produced.’