Elizabeth Siddall
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
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Frances Grimes
Frances Grimes was an artist best known for her marble portrait busts and delicate low relief sculptures.
Helen Cordero
20th century Cochiti Pueblo potter
Edith Lake Wilkinson
American painter
Carmen Baron
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.
Rosa María Elizondo
Mexican painter, poet, photographer, media and conceptual artist.
Otti Berger
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.
Milicent Patrick
Special effects designer Milicent Patrick created one of the most iconic film monsters of her era—the Creature from the Black Lagoon (1953).
Michaelina Wautier
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.
Marjorie Merriweather Post
Marjorie Merriweather Post inherited the General Food Corporation in 1914 and served as a director until 1958.