List of Artists Discussed

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

• Bibliography on O'Keeffe

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

• Denise Bauer. "Alice Neel's Female Nudes." Woman's Art Journal Fall 1994/Winter 1995.

Frieda Kahlo (1906- )

• Frida Kahlo Home Page

Remedios Varo (1908-1963 ) : Mexican surrealist painter noted especially for images of women emerging, exploring, questing after their identities as artists.

The Varo Registry of Women Artists
• Remedios Varo Page from Women and Surrealism Site

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...

• Jenny Holzer's Home Page

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

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