Anne Lynch Botta
American author and sculptor
Category Archives: Visual Art
Continue reading
Bessie Potter Vonnoh
American sculptor; in 1937, she completed the Burnett Memorial Fountain in Central Park, her best-known large-scale work
Cecilia Beaux
American painter, distinguished for her portraits of women and children
Violet Oakley
American illustrator and designer
Edith Wharton
Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist
Thyra Avis Mary Acres
New Zealander Thyra Avis produced a comic strip and books featuring two pohutukawa fairies called Hutu and Kawa, which conveyed an understanding of ecology and a strong conservationist ethos.
Christina Rossetti
Poetess of the Spiritual Life
Adah Isaacs Menken
Actress Adah Isaacs Menken was noted as a woman of extraordinary beauty, culture, and brilliancy. She was famous for her marriages and divorces, and a volume of poetry by her was published as Infelicia (1868).
Grace Cossington Smith
She was a pioneer of modernist painting in Australia and her work is greatly sought after.
Marion Louisa Holmes
A leading charity worker and artist in Western Australia from the 1890s to the 1910s