women artists

The exhibition, Painting Without Rules, is not only an immersion into American 

Art historian Jennifer Dasal crafts a window into France’s "Beautiful Age” with her sophomore book, The…

In the hierarchy of influential women collectors throughout art history, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875–1942) stands near the top of the list.

The Met’s Emily Sargent: Portrait of a Family presents a thoughtfully curated glimpse of the Sargent family, centering primarily on the long overlooked…

Contemporary American artist and educator Squeak Carnwath (1947) creates imaginative, lush visual…

This modest-size, thoughtful, insightful, and shapely show, celebrating the grant program, Anonymous Was A Woman, established in 1996 by philanthropist and artist Susan Unterberg,…

These eight artists bent the rules when branding themselves. Although they worked across two centuries, all chose to adopt their mother’s family names instead of abiding by the traditional patriarchy…

Surrealism became the focus of many art institutions in 2024 in response to the 100th anniversary of the 1924 publication of Andre Breton’s (1896-1966) Surrealist…

After 90 years of questioning the fate of four frescoes by Maxine Albro (1893-1966), originally painted on the exterior walls of The Ebell of Los Angeles in 1933, the 

Pioneering fiber artist and weaver Consuelo J. Underwood is known for breaking boundaries–integrating barbed wire, caution signs, religious iconography, botanical imagery, and astronomy into…

The exhibition, Heart On, at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the Art…

When you ask people to name their favorite artist, the same names always seem to come up. In this roundup, we shine the spotlight back on our favorite lesser-known female artists. Perhaps after…

Around 1908, Vanessa Bell began a painting that she would call Poppies and Poison. In it, she limns a tabletop in cool-toned whites, set against a…

Swedish artist Hilma af Klint’s family stands weary of a potential new agreement between the Hilma af Klint Foundaiton and…