Female Artists of Art History

A place for feminist art history and women artists to be celebrated. Also, to further educate on the important contributions that all women artists made to the art historical canon.

[quo-usque-tandem]

Lifetimes, 2021 by Lorna Simpson

[pagansphinx]

Leonora Carrington (British, worked in Mexico, 1917-2011) The Meal of Lord Candlestick • 1938

[huariqueje]

Tobacco Field -   Hung Liu , 2019.

American Chinese, 1948 - 2021

Mixed media , 60 x 70 in.

[helen-frankenthaler]

Lot’s Wife, Helen Frankenthaler, 1971, MoMA: Drawings and Prints

Gift of Celeste Bartos Size: composition (.a, irreg.): 37 9/16 × 27 3/8" (95.4 × 69.6 cm); composition (.b, irreg.): 43 ¼ × 27 ¾" (109.8 × 70.5 cm); sheet (.a, irreg.): 41 15/16 × 36 5/8" (106.5 × 93 cm); sheet (.b, irreg.): 50 3/16 × 36 5/8" (127.4 × 93 cm) Medium: Lithograph on two sheets

http://www.moma.org/collection/works/69940

[raveneuse]

Ana Mendieta, from the Silueta series, 1977.

[grundoonmgnx]

Yayoi Kusama (Japanese, b 1929), Nets, 1997 

Acrylic on canvas, 40.6 x 31.8 cm

[psikonauti]

Kiki Smith (American, b. 1954) Pool of Tears 2, 2000 Aquatint and etching

[historical-nonfiction]

The First Abstract Artist Was A Woman

Hilma af Klint painted what are now recognized as the first abstract artworks known to the current art community. The Swedish artist first began painting abstracts in 1906 at the age of 44. (The one above is from 1915-1916.) After having her major work rejected by a critic, Klint decided the world was not yet ready for her art, and carefully stored away 1,200 paintings for the future.

When she died in 1944, she required in her will that the paintings not be opened for 20 years. When they were first seen again in the 1960s people were still not enthused. In 1970 her paintings were offered as a gift to Moderna Museet in Stockholm – they declined the donation. Her nephew then donated thousands of drawings and paintings to a foundation named after Klint which continues to manage them today.

In February 2018, the Foundation signed a long-term agreement of cooperation with the Moderna Museet, ensuring that a dedicated Hilma af Klint room would remain where a dozen works of the artist are always on display.

[woundgallery]

Tracey Emin, Somewhere else (detail), 2011, reclaimed wood, patinated bronze,bronze, rock, wire, glass and plaster

[zinaida-serebriakova]

Sleeping nude, 1932, Zinaida Serebriakova

[helen-frankenthaler]

All About Blue, 1994, Helen Frankenthaler

Medium: lithography,woodcut,paper,aluminium

[natalia-goncharova]

Electricity, Natalia Goncharova, 1912, MoMA: Drawings and Prints

The Joan and Lester Avnet Collection Size: 13 ¾ x 9 7/8" (35.0 x 24.9 cm) Medium: Pencil on paper

http://www.moma.org/collection/works/33786

[psikonauti]

Emma Amos (African-American ,1937 - 2020)

Secrets (4 parts), 1981

Etching, handmade paper, chine colle and weavings

[artist-werefkin]

Khfz7x2316o, Marianne von Werefkin

[lyubov-popova]

Spatial Force Construction, Lyubov Popova

[natalia-goncharova]

Folio 22 from Mirskontsa (Worldbackwards), Natalia Goncharova, 1912, MoMA: Drawings and Prints

Purchase Medium: Lithograph with lithographed manuscript text from an illustrated book with twenty-seven lithographs (fifteen with lithographed manuscript text), seven rubber-stamped texts, five lithographed manuscript texts, and collaged cover

http://www.moma.org/collection/works/13411

[artschoolglasses]

She Always Believed the Good About Those She Loved, Amy Sherald, 2018