Influential Women Artists

Highlighting women artists throughout history.

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Suchitra Mattai: Myth from Matter | Exhibition | NMWA

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Women artists are everywhere in 2024 - and it's about damn time

It's a great year of exhibitions but museums need to double down and beef up their collections with the work of female artists

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© 2022 Mickalene Thomas / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New YorkAugust 30 through December 18, 2022 | Spec

“n the spirit of Elizabeth Catlett’s print There is a Woman in Every Color, this exhibition explores the legacy of Black women in the visual arts. Bringing together works made between the late eighteenth and twenty-first centuries, the exhibition examines their representation in works of art that picture Black women or that were produced by Black women.“

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USPS Releases 2020 Ruth Asawa Stamp - Ruth Asawa

With this stamp, the U.S. Postal Service honors pioneering Japanese American artist Ruth Asawa (1926-2013). Showcasing Asawa’s wire sculptures, the pane includes 20 stamps, with two each of 10 designs, featuring photographs by Dan Bradica and Laurence Cuneo.

With this stamp, the U.S. Postal Service honors pioneering Japanese American artist Ruth Asawa (1926-2013). Showcasing Asawa’s wire sculptures, the pane includes 20 stamps, with two each of 10 designs, featuring photographs by Dan Bradica and Laurence Cuneo.

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Rose is Rose by Don Wimmer and Pat Brady for November 24, 2020 | GoComics.com

Nice shout out to several influential women artists!

For November 24, 2020

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'They called her a crazy witch': did medium Hilma af Klint invent abstract art?

Years before Kandinsky, the Swedish artist was painting circles, sunbursts and looping lines – instructed, she believed, by spirits. Now, over 75 years since her death, she is being recognised as a pioneer

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Molly Lamb Bobak WWII era paintings of servicewomen now online

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/molly-lamb-bobak-national-war-museum-1.5646456

A fascinating look at the lives of WWII servicewomen:  https://www.warmuseum.ca/mollylambbobak/#

Molly Lamb Bobak was the first female Canadian artist sent overseas to document the Second World War, and her work provides a rare glimpse into the lives of a groundbreaking group of women in the Canadian army.

Molly Lamb Bobak joined the Canadian Women's Army Corps in 1942 after graduating from art school, seeking adventure and hoping to be noticed as a war artist.

The Canadian War Museum in Ottawa has now created an online exhibit of Bobak's work, helping raise the profile of an artist who sought to capture and elevate the day-to-day lives of the nearly 50,000 women who served in the Canadian army, navy and air force.

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Bisa Butler:  Portraits at the Katonah Museum of Art

http://www.katonahmuseum.org/

The exhibit focuses on the the unique practice of artist Bisa Butler’s portrait quilts. Her process draws upon her background as an African American of Ghanaian descent, evident in her choice of motifs, embellishments and patterning in the African textiles she employs. The works transform family memories and forgotten figures in African American history into narrative social statements.

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“Frida Kahlo 2020” is now going to take place in 2021. The new title? “Frida Kahlo: Timeless.” Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the College of DuPage’s Cleve Carney Art Museum is pushing back by almost exactly a year what it says will be the largest exhibition of the iconic Mexican painter’s work in the Chicago area since the 1970s. Originally scheduled for June 1 to Aug. 31 of 2021, the show ...

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The Fascinating Story of Lizzie Siddal

You’ll likely recognize this 19th century artists’ model. As is being highlighted in the National Portrait Gallery’s exhibition, Pre-Raphaelite Sisters, the Pre-Raphaelite movement also encompassed female models, artists and writers. ‘Lizzie’ Siddal began as a model, then learnt to paint, and also wrote poetry.  Pre-Raphaelite Sisters is at the National Portrait Gallery in London until 26 January.   http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20200103-the-tragedy-of-arts-greatest-supermodel?ocid=ww.social.link.email

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Women Breaking Boundaries exhibit at Cincinnati Art Museum

https://www.cincinnatiartmuseum.org/art/exhibitions/women-breaking-boundaries/

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Rockford (IL) artist Betsy Youngquist at the Freeport (IL) Art Museum.

http://www.freeportartmuseum.com/intricaciesandbebold

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Female artists are finally in our galleries – let's keep them there

Galleries are finally choosing to exhibit works by women – but will they stay on the walls once the trend for representation has passed? It’s all of our jobs to ensure they do

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Opening February 8, 2019

Frida Kahlo: Appearances Can Be Deceiving marks the first exhibition in the United States to present Kahlo's personal objects from the Casa Azul (Blue House), the artist's lifelong home in Mexico City. The exhibition is a rare opportunity to explore Kahlo's creative vision and self-crafted identity through a presentation of her clothing and other personal items, paintings and drawings by the artist, photographs, film, and documentation, as well as related objects from the Museum's collection.

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Phyllida Barlow’s Supersize Sculptures Will Soon Arrive in New York

Barlow, one of Britain’s most distinctive artists, prepares to debut seven large-scale works.

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‘Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future’ Review: Modernism’s Missing Link?

The Guggenheim Museum argues for the little-known Hilma af Klint as an early, overlooked pioneer of abstract art

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