Speedy Survey of Women Artists

Women Old Masters

1550-1650

Sofonisba Anguissola, 1532-1625

• Italian
• Court painter to Philipp II of Spain

The Chess Game, 1555
Internet

Lavinia Fontana, 1552-1614

• Italian
• Society portraits

Bianca degli Utili Maselli and six of her children, around 1614
Internet

Artemisia Gentileschi, 1593-1654

• Italian
• Baroque period

Danaë, 1612
St. Louis / Internet

Judith Leyster, 1609-1660

• Dutch 
• Golden Age

The Last Drop, 1639
Internet

Louise Moillon, 1610-1696

• French
• Still-life

Fruit Basket with Asparagus, 1630
Internet

1700s

Angelica Kaufmann, 174l-1807

• Swiss-Austrian
• Successful in England and Italy

Papirius Pratextatus Entreated by His Mother, 1760s
Denver
Jan's photo

Anne Vallayer-Coster, 1744-1818

• French
• Still-life

Attributes of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture, 1769
Louvre
Jan's photo, 2015

Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, 1749-1803

• French
• Portraits of French aristocracy

Self-portrait with Two Pupils, 1785
Internet

Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, 1755-1842

• French
• Portraits of international aristocracy

Princess Galitzine, 1799
Internet

Marguerite Gerard, 1761-1837

• French
• Domestic scenes

Le Hussard en Famille, c. 1800

Internet

1800s

Emma Stebbins, 1815-1882

• American
• Marble sculpture

Commerce, 1860
Hecksher / Jan's photo, 2012

Lilly Martin Spencer, 1822-1902

• American
• First commercially successful woman painter

We Both Must Fade, 1869
Internet

Rosa Bonheur, 1822-1899

• French
• Animal specialist

The Horse Fair, 1852-1855
Metropolitan / Internet

Harriet Hosmer, 1830-1908

• American
• First successful woman sculptor

Zenobia, the Queen of Palmyra, c. 1859
St. Louis / Jan's photo, 2010

Marie Bracquemond, 1840-1916

• French
• Impressionism

Under the Lamp, 1887
Internet

Berthe Morisot, 1841-1895

• French
• Impressionism

Young Woman Seated on a Sofa, c. 1879
Metropolitan / Jan's photo, 2015

Mary Cassatt, 1844-1926

• American
• Foremost woman painter of century

Woman with a Pearl Necklace in a Loge, 1879
Philadelphia 

Edmonia Lewis, 1844-1907

• American
• First successful African-American sculptor

The Death of Cleopatra, 1876
Smithsonian / Jan's photo, 2010

Maria Oakey Dewing, 1845-1927

• American
• Floral specialist

Rose Garden, 1901
Crystal Bridges / Jan's photo

Lilla Cabot Perry, 1848-1933

• American
• Impressionist

Angela, 1891
High / Internet

Eva Gonzalés, 1849-1883

• French
• Impressionist

A Box at the Italian Theater, 1874
Orsay / Internet

Cecilia Beaux, 1855-1942

• American
• Impressionist

Sita and Sarita, 1893
Internet

Grace Carpenter Hudson, 1865-1937

• Californian
• Specialized in Pomo Indians

Baby Bunting, 1894
Grace Hudson Museum / Internet

Early 1900s

Suzanne Valadon, 1865-1938

• French
• Post-Impressionist

The Blue Room, 1923
Pompidou / Internet

Florine Stettheimer, 1871-1948

• American
• Fake-naive style

The Cathedrals of Art, 1942
Metropolitan / Jan's photo

Emily Carr, 1871-1945

• Canadian
• Foremost artist in Canada

Kispiox Village, 1929
Toronoto / Jan's photo

Anna Hyatt Huntington, 1876-1973

• American sculptor
• Heroic equestrian statues

Joan of Arc, 1915
Legion of Honor
Photo by Dan L. Smith, 2010

Paula Modersohn-Becker, 1876-1907

• German
• Expressionism

Self-portrait with amber beads, 1906
Internet

Gabriele Münter, 1877-1962

• German
• Expressionism

Breakfast of the Birds, 1934
NMWA
Photo by Dan L. Smith

Agnes Pelton, 1881-1961

• American
• Transcendental abstraction

Winter, 1933
Crocker / Jan's photo

Natalia Goncharova, 1881-1962

• Russian
• Advanced Guard painter and designer

The Cyclist, 1913
Internet

Alexandra Exter, 1882-1949

• Russian
• Advanced Guard painter and designer

Theatrical Composition, c. 1925
MoMA / Internet

Marie Laurencin, 1883-1956

• French
• Painter and Designer

Portrait of Marcelle Dormoy, 1937
Internet

Sonia Delaunay, 1885-1979

• French
• Orphism

Rhythme, date unknown

Georgia O'Keeffe, 1887-1986

• American
• Abstract natural forms

Petunias, c. 1925
De Young / Internet

Lyubov Popova, 1889-1924

• Russian
• Advanced guard painter and designer

Painterly Architectronic, 1917
Internet

Sophie Taueber-Arp, 1889-1943

• Swiss
• Dada abstraction

Dada Tapestry, 1916
Internet

Charley Toorop, 1891-1955

• Dutch
• Heightened realism

Self-portrait with Three Children, 1929
Groninger / Internet

Kay Sage, 1898-1963

• American
• Surrealist

In the Third Sleep, 1944
Chicago / Jan's photo

1950 Forward

Louise Nevelson, 1899-1988

• American
• Abstract Sculptor

End of Day Nightscape IV, 1973
Nelson-Atkins / Jan's photo, 2013

Alice Neel, 1900-1984

• American
• Portraitist

Stephen Brown, 1973
Denver / Jan's photo

Barbara Hepworth, 1903-1975

• English
• Abstract sculptor

Sea Form (Atlantic), 1964
Dallas / Jan's photo, 2012

Frida Kahlo, 1907-1954

• Mexican
• Symbolic realism

Self-Portrait on the Borderline between Mexico and the United States, 1932
Internet grab

Lee Krasner, 1908-1984

• American
• Abstract expressionism

Cobalt Night, 1962
National Gallery / Jan's photo

Dorothea Tanning, 1910-2012

• American
• Surrealism

Self-portrait, 1944
SFMOMA / Jan's photo

Louise Bourgeois, 1911-2010

• American
• Expressionist sculptor

Spider, 1996
National Gallery / Jan's photo, 2006

Ángeles Santos Torroella, 1911-1013

• Spanish
• Surrealist and Realist

A World, 1929
Reina Sofia / Internet

Agnes Martin, 1912-2004

• American
• Meditative abstractions

Untitled #6, 1980
SFMOMA / Jan's photo

Leonora Carrington, 1917-2011

• British
• Surrealist

Nunscape at Manzanillo, 1954Dallas / Jan's photo

Elaine de Kooning, 1918-1989

• American
• Expressionism and portraiture

John F. Kennedy, 1963
Smithsonian / Internet

Beverly Pepper, Born 1922

• American
• Abstract sculpture

Perre's Ventaglio III, 1967
Olympic Sculpture Park / Jan's photo, 2010

Joan Mitchell, 1926-1992

• American
• Abstract expressionism

Wood, Wind, No Tuba, 1980MOMA / Jan's photo

Ruth Asawa, 1926-2013

• American
• Sculptor of wire abstractions and representational fountains

Display at de Young Museum, undated and untitled
Photo by Dan L. Smith, 2008

Helen Frankenthaler, 1928-2011

• American
• Abstractions with soak-stain technique

Island Weather II, 1963
Yale
Photo by Dan L. Smith, 2013

Jay DeFeo, 1929-1989

• Californian
• Abstraction

The Rose, 1958-1966
Whitney / Jan's photo

Niki de Saint Phalle, 1930-2002

• French
• Sculptor of exuberant femininity

Adam and Eve, 1985-1989
Painted Polyester and Fiberglass
Terrace View Café, Citygarden, St. Louis
Photo by Dan L. Smith, 2013

Magdalena Abakanowicz, Born 1930

• Polish
• Sculptor of abstract human forms

Agora, 2006
Grant Park, Chicago / Jan's photo, 2010

Bridget Riley, Born 1931

• English
• Op art

Blaze 1, 1962
Metropolitan / Jan's photo, 2015

Yoko Ono, born 1933

• Japanese
• Conceptual artist

Apple, 1966
Museum of Modern Art / Jan's photo, 2015

Viola Frey, 1933-2005

• Californian
• Figurative ceramic sculpture

American Nude Series (Woman with Elbow on Raise Knee), 1994
Glazed ceramic
OMCA
Photo by Dan L. Smith, 2010

Joan Brown, 1938-1990

• Californian
• Representational narratives

Self-Portrait with Swimming Coach Charlie Sava, 1974
Denver / Jan's photo

Janet Fish, Born 1938

• American
• Still life

Orange Lamp and Oranges, 1982
Hunter / Jan's photo

Judy Chicago, born 1939

• American
• Feminist artist

In Honor of Elizabeth
From the Great Ladies Series / Internet

Ursula von Rydingsvard, born 1942

• American
• Abstract sculpture in red cedar

Czara z Babelkami, 2006
SFMOMA / Jan's photo, 2015

Hung Liu, Born 1948

• Chinese-American Californian
• Nostalgic realism

The Botanist, 2013
SFMOMA / Jan's photo

Deborah Butterfield, Born 1949

• American
• Sculptor of abstract horses in found materials

Horse at Cantor Museum, no title, no date given
Photo by Dan L. Smith, 2009

Kiki Smith, Born 1954

• American
• Feminist sculptor in bronze

Genevieve and the May Wolf, 2000
Bronze
Denver
Photo by Dan L. Smith, 2010