50 Women

Have women been underrepresented or excluded from the story of creative expression? The artist noted below have had to face sexism, classicism, and racism in their efforts to get recognition and appreciation for their work.

Women artists often use the talents to tell truths, to talk about injustice and bring visibility to the unseen. Then, new ideas can spread and influence the world towards a better society.

  • Lee Miller's photographs assured the Holocaust could not be denied.
  • Frida Kahlo's paintings rally for feminism.
  • Maya Lin's Memorial on the National Mall engendered healing for a generation of soldiers and their families.
  • Women artist shape and reflect our world.

... the list is expanded to 90 women artists!

Guang Daosheng | 1262 - 1319

Christine de PIzan | 1364 - 1430

Catherine Von Hemessen | 1528 - c. 1587

Sofonisba Anguissola | 1532 -1625

Lavinia Fontana | 1552 - 1614

Barbara Longhi | 1552 - 1638

Artimisia Gentileschi | 1593 - 1652/53

Calra Peeters | c. 1594 - ?

Judith Leyster | 1609 - 1660

Elisabetta Sirani | 1638 - 1665

Maria Sibylla Merian | 1647 - 1717

Rachel Ruysch | 1664 - 1750

Rosalba Carriera | 1675 - 1757

Giulia Lama | 1681 - 1747

Anna Dorothea Thurbusch | 1721 - 1782

Angelica Kauffmann | 1741 - 1807

Adélaïde Labille-Guiard | 1749 - 1803

Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun | 1755 - 1842

Marguerite Gérard | 1761 - 1837

Constance Mayer | 1775 - 1821

Julia Margaret Cameron | 1815 - 1879

Rosa Bonheur | 1822 - 1899

Harriet Powers | 1937 - 1910

Berthe Morisot | 1841 - 1895

Mary Cassat | 1845 - 1926

Eva Gonzalés | 1849 - 1883

Cecilia Beaux | 1855 - 1942

Elizabeth Armstrong Forbes | 1859 - 1912

Nampeyo | 1859 - 1942

Beatrix Potter | 1866 - 1943

Jeanne Paquin | 1869 - 1936

Julia Morgan |1872 - 1957

Paula Modersohn-Becker | 1876 - 1907

Camille Claudel | 1864 - 1943

Käthe Kollwitz | 1867 - 1945

Gabrielle Münter | 1877 - 1962

Tarsila do Amaral | 1886 - 1973

Georgia O'Keefe | 1887 - 1986

Alma Thomas | 1891 -1978

Hannah Höch | 1889 - 1978

Augusta Savage | 1892 - 1962

Dorothea Lange | 1895 - 1965

Dorothy Liebes | 1897 - 1972

Tamara de Lempicka | 1898 - 1980

Louise Nevelson | 1899 - 1988

Belle Kogan | 1902 - 2000

Lola Álvarez Bravo | 1903 - 1993

Loïs Mailou Jones | 1905 - 1998

Frida Kahlo | 1907 - 1954

Lee Miller | 1907 - 1977

Lee Krasner | 1908 - 1984

Cipem Pineles | 1908 - 1991

Thelma Johns Streat | 1911 - 1959

Mary Blair | 1911 - 1978

Louise Bourgeois | 1911 - 2010

Ray Eames | 1912 - 1988

Amrita Sher-Gil | 1913 - 1941

Meret Oppenheim | 1913 - 1985

Elizabeth Catlett | 1915 - 2012

Norma Sklarek | 1926 - 2012

Ruth Asawa | 1926 - 2013

Helen Frankenthaler | 1928 - 2011

Yayoi Kusama | 1929 -

Niki de Saint Phalle | 1930 - 2002

Faith Ringgold | 1930 -

Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon | 1935 - 2009

Eva Hesse | 1936 - 1970

Wendy Carlos | 1939 -

Rebecca Horn | 1944 -

Barbara Kruger | 1945 -

Marina Abramović | 1946 -

Hung Liu | 1948 -

Paula Scher | 1948 -

Isa Genzken | 1948 -

Zaha Hadid | 1950 - 2016

Jenny Holzer | 1950 -

Mona Hatoum | 1952

Chakaia Booker | 1953 -

Sophie Calle | 1953 -

Kiki Smith | 1954 -

Cindy Sherman | 1954 -

Kazuyo Sejima | 1956 -

Shirin Neshat | 1957 -

Sokari Douglas Camp | 1958 -

Maya Lin | 1959 -

Pipilotti Rist | 1962 -

Tracy Emin | 1963

Tacita Dean | 1965 -

Sculptors, painters and architects have been creating for millennia. More and more women are getting involved and getting recognized.

Make the work that your talented for. make your own masterpiece.

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