


Suzanne Valadon (1865-1938): Painter working in post-impressionist mode whose images of women break conventions of the male gaze -- Paris, France
Kathe Kollwitz (1867-) : Printmaker whose images of women and children testify to the horrors of war -- Germany
Sonia Delauny : Designer and fabric artist
Doris Ulman (1882-1934) : Photographer specializing in portraits of folk artists and rural poor
Dorothea Lange (1895-1965) : Photographer
Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) : Modernist painter of flowers, building, bones, and landscapes -- New York and New Mexico
Consuelo Kanaga (1894-1978) : Photographer
Alice Neel (1900-1984): Contemporary painter whose protraits of women's bodies are famous for their humor and dignity -- New York
Frieda Kahlo (1906- )
Remedios Varo (1908-1963 ) : Mexican surrealist painter noted especially for images of women emerging, exploring, questing after their identities as artists.
Helen Frankenthaler
Margaret Burke-White : Photographer
Diane Arbus (1923-71) : Photographer specializing in portraits which test the boundaries of the "normal": twins, transvestities, the mentally retarded.
Nancy Graves
Eva Hesse (1936-69) : Sculptor whose organic forms made out of various plastics and latex. . .
Mary Ellen Mark (1940-198:): Photographer who captured many images of the starving and dying in Turkey and India
Margaret Lowengrund : Printmaker who helped start printmaking revial in the 1940's-50's by setting up Contemporary Graphics Arts Center, allied with Pratt Graphics -- New York City
Jenny Holzer : Known for her signs which...
Tantyana Grosman : Printmaker who set up print studio for silkscreen anda encoraged many of the leading figures in the New York art world such as Jasper Johns and Helen Frankenthaler to make prints
June Wayne : Printmaker who founded Tamarind Institute
Cynthia McAdams : Photographer
Jock Sturges : Photograpaher whose nude portraits of families and adolescents incited an FBI raid later judged to be inappropriate
Robert Mappelthorpe : Photographer
Lorna Simpson (1960- ) : Photographer whose three-dimensional installations posing questions about race and gender, begin to move photography into the realm of sculpture
Last update: 4/22/97