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- Agnes Martin. One of the most important painters of her generation, Agnes Martin was an abstract artist who created minimalistic paintings driven by her transcendentalist and Buddhist beliefs.
- Augusta Savage. Through her sculptures, Augusta Savage transformed everyday moments in the lives of Black Americans into high art. A key figure of the Harlem Renaissance, Savage trained in Paris before returning to New York City, where she transformed her studio into a community art center; gave free lessons—other notable artists like Jacob Lawrence were students; and created commissioned projects like “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” which was made for the 1939 New York World’s Fair.
- Barbara Kruger. Collagist Barbara Kruger got her start working in the design department at Condé Nast’s Mademoiselle magazine. In the mid-1970s, she began producing large-scale pieces that mixed found photographs with pithy sayings written in Futura Bold typeface, criticizing several cultural constructs like power, identity, gender, and sexuality.
- Betye Saar. Political activist Angela Davis once credited Betye Saar’s work with launching the Black Women’s Movement. Saar primarily works in assemblage—though she’s an accomplished printmaker as well—challenging the stereotypes that exist around the intersection of race and femininity.
This is a partial list of 20th-century women artists, sorted alphabetically by decade of birth.These artists are known for creating artworks that are primarily visual in nature, in traditional media such as painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, ceramics as well as in more recently developed genres, such as installation art, performance art, conceptual art, digital art and video art.
In a collection of over 2,300 paintings spanning the 13th to early 20th century, why are there so few, 27 to be precise, by women? We explore the representation of women in the collection; the artists, the patrons, and the women who inspired our paintings. We examine the social and cultural ...
Mar 4, 2019 · Amy 1928. Winifred Nicholson (1893–1981) Jerwood Collection. Glass c.1935. Dod Procter (1892–1972) Jerwood Collection. In addition, with only 3 to 5 per cent of works in major permanent collections in the US and Europe (statistic from National Museum of Women in the Arts) by female artists, giving visibility to these artworks is only a start.
Not surprisingly, Georgia O’Keeffe, the widely celebrated and perhaps most famous female artist of the 20th century, was mentioned by several of the artists on our nominating panel. Her legendary life, first as a muse for photographer Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946) and later as a painter of iconic abstract flowers and landscapes of the Southwest, is well documented.
Oct 19, 2016 · O’Keeffe, Stettheimer, Torr, Zorach: Women Modernists of New York, currently showing at the Portland Museum of Art, examines the obstacles female artists faced in the early 20th Century in terms ...
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Oct 27, 2021 · By Madison Troyer, provided byProvided By Oct 27, 2021. 25 influential women artists of the 20th century. Ask anyone to name a famous artist and you’ll probably hear the same names repeated over ...
