Women Artists & Activists #bornOnThisDay 25 July | July 25th
Elizabeth Siddal (1829–1862) https://palianshow.wordpress.com/2025/07/25/elizabeth-siddal/ Elizabeth Eleanor Siddall (25 July 1829 – 11 Feb 1862), better known as Elizabeth Siddal (a spelling she adopted in 1853), was an English artist, art model, and poet. Siddal became an artist in her own right and was the only woman to exhibit at an 1857 Pre-Raphaelite exhibition. Significant collections of her artworks can be found at Wightwick Manor and the Ashmolean Museum. Sickly and melancholic during the last decade of her life, Siddal died of a laudanum overdose in 1862 during her second year of marriage to Rossetti. via W
Hélène Hoppenot (1894-1990) born Hélène Julienne Delacour on July 25, 1894 in Paris and died on Dec 21, 1990 in Paris, is a French diarist and photographer. via W
Wanda Wulz (1903–1984) https://palianshow.wordpress.com/2024/07/25/wanda-wulz Wanda Wulz (Trieste, 25 July 1903 – Trieste, Italy, 16 April 1984) was an Italian experimental photographer. Wulz was born on 25 July 1903 in Trieste, Italy {Austro-Hungarian Empire}. Both her grandfather and her father were photographers who shot social events and created portraits of fellow artists and local intellectuals. Wanda began her career photographing musicians, dancers, and actors in Trieste. She exhibited six photographs in Rome in 1930. One example of her work is her self-portrait merged with a portrait of a cat. via W
Jane Frank (1918-1986) Jane Schenthal Frank (born Jane Babette Schenthal; July 25, 1918 – May 31, 1986) was an American multidisciplinary artist, known as a painter, sculptor, mixed media artist, illustrator, and textile artist. via W
Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958) https://herstorypalianshow.wordpress.com/2025/07/25/rosalind-franklin/ Rosalind Elsie Franklin (25 July 1920 – 16 April 1958) was a British chemist and X-ray crystallographer. Her work was central to the understanding of the molecular structures of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), RNA (ribonucleic acid), viruses, coal, and graphite.via W
Halina Chrostowska (1929–1990) https://polishwomenartists.wordpress.com/2024/07/25/halina-chrostowska/ Halina Chrostowska (25 July 1929 – 22 April 1990), also known as Halina Chrostowska-Piotrowicz, was a Polish visual artist, graphic artist, printmaker, activist, educator, and illustrator. Via W
Women Minimalists https://abwwia.wordpress.com/2025/07/25/women-minimalists/
Carmen Herrera (1915 – 2022), Mary Corse (born 1945), Nasreen Mohamedi (1937—1990), Charlotte Posenenske (1930–1985), Rosemarie Castoro (1939–2015), Noemí Escandell (1942–2019), Anne Truitt (1921-2004), Beverly Pepper (1922-2020), Mary Obering (1937-2022), Virginia Overton (b.1971)
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