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unusual facts about women artists


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Ivy Shore

A student of tonal impressionist Graeme Inson, and also Inson's partner for the last 40 years of her life, Ivy was the 1979 winner of the Portia Geach Memorial Award (Australia's richest art award for women artists only).


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Caterina van Hemessen

Harris, Anne Sutherland and Linda Nochlin, Women Artists: 1550-1950, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Knopf, New York, 1976

Deyanira África Melo

She was one of 52 Mexican women artists featured in the book 52 Mujeres en el Arte Mexicano: Una visión social y de género published by Secretaría de Desarrollo Social, CONACULTA and INAH.

Earl W. Brydges Artpark State Park

and projects by several women artists in the 1970s, including Michelle Stuart, Alice Adams and Agnes Denes and Nancy Holt.

Eve Drewelowe

Her work was shown at National Association of Women Artists exhibitions, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Denver Art Museum, and the National Museum of Women in the Arts.

Harriet Whitney Frishmuth

She also exhibited with a group of women artists known as the Philadelphia Ten.

Iaia

Harris, Anne Sutherland and Linda Nochlin, Women Artists: 1550-1950, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Knopf, New York, 1976, pg.

Iloosh Ahluwalia

On International Women's Day, 2004, Ahluwalia was among the notable Indian women artists who came together for an art festival at the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts "Mud House" which was opened by Bhavna Chikhalia, Minister of Culture and Parliamentary Affairs.

Johanna Went

Her work is often seen in context of other women artists of the 1980s whose performances are regarded as daring and transgressive, such as Karen Finley, Lydia Lunch, Diamanda Galas or Dancenoise.

Mary Beth Edelson

In 1972 Edelson used an image of Leonardo Da Vinci’s mural to create Some Living Women Artists / Last Supper. She used collage to add notable women artist's heads of the men in the painting, which quickly became "one of the most iconic images of the Feminist Art movement." John the Baptist's head was covered by Nancy Graves and Christ by Georgia O'Keefe.

Mary Elizabeth Price

As an early member of the Philadelphia Ten, a group of women artists begun in 1921, she organized exhibits and participated in solo and group shows in many galleries in New York, Philadelphia and Washington, including Grand Central, the Whitney Museum, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Corcoran and the National Academy of Design.

Rose English

The women wore horse tails and discussed the works of Frank Stella at an exhibition opening, satirizing the invisibility of women artists.

Rummana Hussain

Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Inside Out: Contemporary Women Artists of India, Middlesbrough, UK

Willa Vasquez Serfaty

She was born in Gibraltar in 1954 into an artistic family, from an early age Willa became a pupil of local artist Leni Mifsud, one of the few women artists who were making their mark in painting.