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Marta Astfalck-Vietz (1901-1994) https://palianshow.wordpress.com/2025/07/21/marta-astfalck-vietz/ (née Vietz; 21 July 1901 – 14 Feb 1994) She was a German photographer, social worker and painter x She was associated with the Bauhaus movement. She is remembered for her pioneering series of self-portraits from around 1930. via W

Vera Jackson (1912 – 1999) https://palianshow.wordpress.com/2026/07/21/vera-jackson/ Vera Jackson (July 21, 1911 – Jan 26, 1999) was a “pioneer woman photographer in the black press”. She photographed African-American social life and celebrity culture in 1930s and 1940s Los Angeles. Noted photographic subjects included major league baseball player Jackie Robinson, educator Mary McLeod Bethune, and actresses Dorothy Dandridge, Hattie McDaniel and Lena Horne. via W

Laila Pullinen (1933-2015) https://palianshow.wordpress.com/2026/07/21/laila-pullinen/ Laila Annikki Pullinen-Ramsay (21 Jul 1933 Terijoki – 4 Nov 2015 Helsinki) was a Finnish artist and sculptor. Her work exemplifies modernism, in particular classical modernism in sculpture. She was one of the few Finnish women artists to achieve international recognition. via W

Anna Ficoń, from Wieprz, (born in 1938 – d. 2016) One of the most interesting and the most honored folk sculptors in Beskid. Self-made and authentic artist; extremely hardworking, sensitive and modest. She was born on July 21, 1938 in Cięcina, she died on December 2, 2016 in Wieprz. Sculpt began in 1970 thanks to her husband Jan Ficoń, a well-known folk sculptor. From that moment, art was her asylum. http://transetno.eu/en/ficon-anna | Anna Ficoń (ur. 21 lipca 1938 w Cięcinie, zm. 2 grudnia 2016 w Wieprzu) – polska rzeźbiarka ludowa, laureatka Nagrody im. Oskara Kolberga, artystka ludowa Beskidu Żywieckiego. Via W| Anna Ficoń (born July 21, 1938 in Cięcina, died December 2, 2016 in Wieprz) – Polish folk sculptor, winner of the Oskar Kolberg Award, folk artist of the Żywiec Beskids. Via W

Miriam Cahn (b.1949) https://palianshow.wordpress.com/2024/07/21/miriam-cahn/ Miriam Cahn is a Swiss painter. Cahn was born on July 21, 1949 in Basel, Switzerland. She studied at Schule für Gestaltung Basel in Basel from 1968 to 1973, where she became involved with feminist and anti-nuclear movements. Cahn is of Jewish ancestry. via W

#DiedOnThisDay Antonina Rożniatowska (1860 – 1895) https://polishwomenartists.wordpress.com/2025/07/21/antonina-rozniatowska/ (born 1860 in Berdyczów, died 21 June 1895 in Kraków) – one of the first Polish sculptors. via W PL translated.