Vinnie Ream
The first woman sculptor to receive an order from the United States government for a statue.
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Martha King
Martha King was New Zealand’s first resident botanical artist.
Margaret Olrog Stoddart
New Zealand’s foremost flower painter of her time, Margaret Olrog Stoddart travelled and exhibited her work internationally.
Mabel Hill
Mabel Hill’s love of early impressionism coloured her opinion of the movements that followed it. Spending her formative years in New Zealand, then marrying and raising a family instead of studying in Europe as some of her contemporaries were able to do, limited her development as an artist. Although she frequently exhibited with most of the art societies in New Zealand, few of her best works have found their way into public collections.
Grace Jane Joel
Joel exhibited regularly in France and Great Britain with conservative bodies such as the Royal Academy of Arts in London and the Société des artistes français in Paris.
Frances Mary Hodgkins
Frances Hodgkins was the outstanding artist of her generation, with a professional life that spanned 56 years and earned her a secure place among the English avant-garde of the 1930s and 1940s: the first New Zealand-born artist to achieve such stature.
Edith Marion Collier
Edith Collier exhibited at the Women’s International Art Club show in 1920, and in the same year joined Frances Hodgkins’s classes at St Ives. There she began producing the most comprehensively modern and experimental work of her career.
Muriel Carrick Moody
Muriel Moody’s reputation rests primarily on her ceramic sculptures and some bronzes cast in the 1980s. Her work was original and distinctive, usually based on the human figure.
Grace Ellen Butler
Butler was well known for her many paintings of the landscape around Ōtira
Hilda Alexandra Wiseman
Hilda Wiseman designed over 100 bookplates, most of them linocuts meticulously printed on her own small handpress.