50 Women

Have women been underrepresented or excluded from the story of creative expression? The artists 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 their 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 artists shape and reflect our world.

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

  1. Guang Daosheng | 1262 - 1319
  2. Christine de PIzan | 1364 - 1430
  3. Catherine Von Hemessen | 1528 - c. 1587
  4. Sofonisba Anguissola | 1532 -1625
  5. Lavinia Fontana | 1552 - 1614
  6. Barbara Longhi | 1552 - 1638
  7. Artimisia Gentileschi | 1593 - c. 1652
  8. Calra Peeters | c. 1594 - ?
  9. Judith Leyster | 1609 - 1660
  10. Elisabetta Sirani | 1638 - 1665
  11. Maria Sibylla Merian | 1647 - 1717
  12. Rachel Ruysch | 1664 - 1750
  13. Rosalba Carriera | 1675 - 1757
  14. Giulia Lama | 1681 - 1747
  15. Anna Dorothea Thurbusch | 1721 - 1782
  16. Angelica Kauffmann | 1741 - 1807
  17. Adélaïde Labille-Guiard | 1749 - 1803
  18. Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun | 1755 - 1842
  19. Marguerite Gérard | 1761 - 1837
  20. Constance Mayer | 1775 - 1821
  21. Julia Margaret Cameron | 1815 - 1879
  22. Rosa Bonheur | 1822 - 1899
  23. Harriet Powers | 1937 - 1910
  24. Berthe Morisot | 1841 - 1895
  25. Mary Cassat | 1845 - 1926
  26. Eva Gonzalés | 1849 - 1883
  27. Cecilia Beaux | 1855 - 1942
  28. Elizabeth Armstrong Forbes | 1859 - 1912
  29. Nampeyo | 1859 - 1942
  30. Beatrix Potter | 1866 - 1943
  31. Jeanne Paquin | 1869 - 1936
  32. Julia Morgan |1872 - 1957
  33. Paula Modersohn-Becker | 1876 - 1907
  34. Camille Claudel | 1864 - 1943
  35. Käthe Kollwitz | 1867 - 1945
  36. Gabrielle Münter | 1877 - 1962
  37. Tarsila do Amaral | 1886 - 1973
  38. Georgia O'Keefe | 1887 - 1986
  39. Alma Thomas | 1891 -1978
  40. Hannah Höch | 1889 - 1978
  41. Augusta Savage | 1892 - 1962
  42. Dorothea Lange | 1895 - 1965
  43. Dorothy Liebes | 1897 - 1972
  44. Tamara de Lempicka | 1898 - 1980
  45. Louise Nevelson | 1899 - 1988
  46. Belle Kogan | 1902 - 2000
  47. Lola Álvarez Bravo | 1903 - 1993
  48. Margaret Bourke-White | 1904 - 1971
  49. Loïs Mailou Jones | 1905 - 1998
  50. Frida Kahlo | 1907 - 1954
  51. Lee Miller | 1907 - 1977
  52. Lee Krasner | 1908 - 1984
  53. Cipem Pineles | 1908 - 1991
  54. Thelma Johns Streat | 1911 - 1959
  55. Mary Blair | 1911 - 1978
  56. Louise Bourgeois | 1911 - 2010
  57. Ray Eames | 1912 - 1988
  58. Amrita Sher-Gil | 1913 - 1941
  59. Meret Oppenheim | 1913 - 1985
  60. Elizabeth Catlett | 1915 - 2012
  61. Diane Arbus | 1923 - 1971
  62. Norma Sklarek | 1926 - 2012
  63. Ruth Asawa | 1926 - 2013
  64. Helen Frankenthaler | 1928 - 2011
  65. Yayoi Kusama | 1929 -
  66. Niki de Saint Phalle | 1930 - 2002
  67. Faith Ringgold | 1930 -
  68. Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon | 1935 - 2009
  69. Eva Hesse | 1936 - 1970
  70. Wendy Carlos | 1939 -
  71. Rebecca Horn | 1944 -
  72. Barbara Kruger | 1945 -
  73. Marina Abramović | 1946 -
  74. Hung Liu | 1948 -
  75. Paula Scher | 1948 -
  76. Isa Genzken | 1948 -
  77. Zaha Hadid | 1950 - 2016
  78. Jenny Holzer | 1950 -
  79. Mona Hatoum | 1952
  80. Chakaia Booker | 1953 -
  81. Sophie Calle | 1953 -
  82. Kiki Smith | 1954 -
  83. Cindy Sherman | 1954 -
  84. Kazuyo Sejima | 1956 -
  85. Shirin Neshat | 1957 -
  86. Sokari Douglas Camp | 1958 -
  87. Maya Lin | 1959 -
  88. Pipilotti Rist | 1962 -
  89. Tracy Emin | 1963
  90. Tacita Dean | 1965 -
American Standard“The camera is a remarkable instrument. Saturate yourself with your subject, and the camera will all but take you by the hand and point the way.” ~ Margaret Bourke-White
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Dorothea Lange’s commitment to social justice and her faith in the power of photography remained constant throughout her life. In 1942, with the United States recently entered into World War II, the government’s War Relocation Authority assigned her to document the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans, a policy she strongly opposed. She made critical images, which the government suppressed for the duration of the war.

~ https://www.moma.org/

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Maya Lin is known for her large-scale environmental artworks, her architectural works and her memorial designs. Her unique multi-disciplinary career has “resisted categories, boundaries and borders” (Michael Brenson). In her book Boundaries, she writes I see myself existing between boundaries, a place where opposites meet; science and art, art and architecture, East and West. My work originates from a simple desire to make people aware of their surroundings.”

~ www.mayalinstudio.com/

VietNamMaya Lin's Viet Nam War Memorial was a source of healing for veterans of this conflict.
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Sculptors, painters and architects have been creating for millennia. More and more women are getting involved and getting recognized.

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