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Women in Art

Here we will celebrate the arrival of women artists into the art history mainstream. So you ask, "Why are there so few great women artists?"

According to tradition, in the past a woman's place was in the home, she was under the tutelage, first of her father and then of her husband. Her main duties were to be a wife, a mother, and then run a household. If a woman escaped these duties to become a artist it was an exception to the rule.

Today there are many great women artists. It was only in the 20th century when the mass of women became eligible (legally as well as culturally) to receive the highest levels of artistic training. So this brings us to the problem we face today, copyrights. Most great women artists are under the protection of copyrights and their estates have choosen not to allow their images to be used. So enjoy the 30 women artists listed. As time and copyright permit I will add more artists and scans.



Someone, I say, will remember us in the future.
Sappho

The history of all times, and of today especially, teaches that... women will be forgotten if they forget to think about themselves.
Louise Otto-Peters

This is so good, you would not know it was painted by a woman.
Hans Hoffmann about his student Lee Krasner, 1937





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UPDATES

Started adding links to other sites concerning women artists.
Added 20 Morisot images
Added 4 Cassatt images
Added 6 Kollwitz images


The size listed for some works is in centimeters
[2.54 cm equals 1 inch]





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Art for Dummies
by Thomas Hoving


The Art of Reflection : Women Artists' Self-Portraiture in the Twentieth Century
by Marsha Meskimmon


Abstract Expressionist Women Painters : An Annotated Bibliography : Elaine De Kooning, Helen Frankenthaler, Grace Hartigan, Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell
by Francoise S. Puniello, Halina R. Rusak


Seeing Ourselves : Women's Self-Portraits
by Frances Borzello


Art Talk : Conversations With 15 Women Artists
by Cindy Nemser


Women, Art, and Society
by Whitney Chadwick


Women Artists : An Illustrated History
by Nancy G. Heller


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