Intro: This model of learning seems to work for me. Just open up a file in your brain and just keep pouring more into it. There are so many female painters, this is going to be a long post, and long in the making as I discover them. Maybe you can sort these into living and dead, and styles. There are a lot of women who paint as their artistic range, but I'm focused mostly on painters and not conceptual artists who use lots of mediums.
Previous posts:
Tamara de Lempicka: There's a musical on broadway about her (NY Times).
As I find them female Painters:
Dora Carrington (1893-1932) Emma Thompson portrays Carrington in the 1995 British biographical film Carrington, written and directed by Christopher Hampton based on the book Lytton Strachey by Michael Holroyd. She writes a moving letter to Lytton Strachey that she's going to be marrying another bloke. Painting of Strachey below.
Elin Danielson-Gambogi (1861-1919) was a Finnish painter, really quite brilliant. Her Wikipedia page lists 3 other Finnish painters:
Agnes Pelton (1881-1961) "The artist painted desert smoke trees and dunes, but the works that now bring hundreds of thousands of dollars are her cosmic abstractions that plumb the unseen forces behind the landscape. People like me who know nothing about abstract art can still take pleasure in her orbs and wings and plumes of light. She expressed transcendence so well that anyone can get it." (Source)
My daughter liked this one:
Whitney painting: "Using an abstract vocabulary of curvilinear, biomorphic forms and delicate, shimmering veils of light, she portrayed her awareness of a world that lay behind physical appearances—a world of benevolent, disembodied energies animating and protecting life."
Her career ran parallel to Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986). Course as a Wisconsinite, I appreciate her, and have been to her museum in Santa Fe.
And just to have a live painter, Anna Weyant (b. 1995), (though Lisa Yuskavage is a live). Born in Calgary Alberta Canada. Supposedly she lives in New York City. Her website.
Hilma af Klint (1862 -1944) was a Swedish, her later painting considered among the first abstract works known in Western art history.
Gertrude Abercrombie (1909 –1977) "Abercrombie was involved in the Chicago jazz scene and was friends with musicians such as Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and Sarah Vaughan, whose music inspired her own creative work."
Katherine Bradford (b. 1942) is an American artist based in New York City, known for figurative paintings, particularly of swimmers, that critics describe as simultaneously representational, abstract and metaphorical.
Julie Mehretu (b. 1970) is an Ethiopian-American painter, who depict the cumulative effects of urban sociopolitical changes.
Jenny Saville (b. 1970) works and lives in Oxford, England and she is known for her large-scale painted depictions of nude women.
Caroline Durieux (1896-1989) is a Louisiana painter, read about her in the NY Times souther painting article. "After the war, the printmaker Caroline Durieux, neighbor to Faulkner in New Orleans, sourced isotopes from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, where the uranium was enriched to level Hiroshima. With scientists, Durieux developed radioactive inks that would stay active for 25,000 years."
Alice Rahon (1904-1987). She published 3 books of poetry in Paris, and then later moved to Mexico and began to paint. Great website. This one is called 4 children of the rainbow.
Sasha Gordon article (b 1998) Wikipedia
Cecily Brown (b 1969). She has a big exhibit at the Met.
Amy Sherald (b. 1973) is the one who painted the Obamas and recently sold a painting for $850k. Reading her Wikipedia page, I read that she got a heart transplant at 39, that's pretty amazing.
Helene Schjerfbeck (1862-1946) was a Finnish painter. A modernist painter, she is known for her realist works and self-portraits, and also for her landscapes and still lifes. Throughout her long life, her work changed dramatically beginning with French-influenced realism and plein air painting. It gradually evolved towards portraits and still life paintings.
Flora Yukhnovich (b. 1990) Website
Marlene Dumas (b. 1953)
Alice Neel (1900-1984) Website
Portia Zvavahera (b. 1985 Zimbabwe) Three Thoughts
Zinaida Serebriakova (1884-1947) Zinaida Serebriakova in the Culture Tutor tweets.
Contemporary female artists are approaching abstraction with an eye toward the inner world. (wmagazine)
Loie Hollowell in w magazine.
Jesse Mockrin (b. 1981) (Wikipedia) Her work primarily consists of figurative paintings.
Leonor Fini (1907-1996) (video)
Maxine Hoover and Hillary Hava Mizrachi article.
Jenny Saville, Barkley L. Hendricks article.
Faith Ringgold, Émilie Charmy, Dame Ethel Walker, and other article.
Marie Spartali Stillman (1844-1927), Elizabeth Rossetti, née Siddal (1834-1862), Evelyn De Morgan (1855-1919), Emma Sandys (1834-1877), Laura, Lady Alma-Tadema (1852-1909), Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale, R.W.S. (1871-1945), Georgiana Burne-Jones (1840-1920) article.
Sarah Paxton Ball Dodson (1847 – 1906). The Wikipedia link has some painting photos and they're really quite spectacular. She lived in France and Brighton England at the end of her life. It doesn't say much about her life except she was born in Philly and studied in France, and ended up in Brighton. Quite amazing paintings.
Can’t believe it took me this little by to get to Agnes Martins: The Marginalia. I saw here paintings early on when I moved to NYC, and I was quite challenged by them.
Frida Kahlo (1907 – 1954) is omnipresent, but rarely discussed in depth. Here is an article about similar magical realists.
Read a tweet about hyper realism and plucked out the females: Alyssa Monks (b 1977), Maryam Nayeb Razmegahi (Insta), Robin Eley (b. 1978) (Insta)
Article about Janet Sobel (1893-1968). "some years before these artists became known for splashing paint and swinging their brushes wildly across their studios, Janet Sobel was carefully dripping paint onto her canvases in an all too similar manner. Working on the floor of her family’s crowded apartment in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, she created intricate swirls that were equal parts intention and chance, blowing through glass pipettes or using her vacuum cleaner to push pigment across the canvas, adding sand for a gritty texture." Wikipedia says she had 5 children. BBC wrote about her. She escaped the pogroms of Russia to live in Bright Beach.
An Opinionated Guide to Women Painters explores how women influenced the trajectory of art (The Conversation). There's a book by Lucy Davies, who is also a painter.
Didn't have:
Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1656)
Sarah Biffin (1784-1850)
Paula Rego (1935-2022)
Chantal Joffe (b. 1969)
Women in the internment camps of WW2 in America made art: Hisako Hibi, Miki Hayakawa and Miné Okubo (NY Times).
10 Women Artists Capturing the Beauty of Nature through Abstraction: Sarah Cunningham, Jadé Fadojutimi, Antonia Kuo, Lilian Thomas Burwell, Marina Rheingantz, Christine Ay Tjoe, Elizabeth Neel, Dawn Ng, Sara Jimenez, Diana Al-Hadid.
Audrey Flack (b. 1931) (Wikipedia)
Jesse Mack 24 year old lives in Washington profile in Seattle Refined.
Zoe Longfield (1924-2013) was an American abstract expressionist artist from the San Francisco Bay Area. She was among the first generation of Abstract Expressionists, which arose primarily in New York and San Francisco in the second half of the 1940s. ArtNet article. Official Website.
Lavinia Fontana (1552 –1614) ArtNet, ArtNet
Wikipedia: "Among art historians, there is a controversy over Fontana's depiction of the nude female, and male form in her paintings. Liana De Girolami Cheney argues that the naturalism of the figures may indicate that Fontana used live nude models. Caroline P. Murphy argues that while body parts are well rendered, the figures as a whole are disproportionate, similar to Prospero's rendering of human anatomy. Additionally, Murphy points out that during Lavinia's lifetime, it was socially unacceptable for women to be exposed to nudity; if it was discovered that she used live nude models, her reputation would be tarnished. She instead suggests that like Sofonisba Anguissola, Fontana had family members model for her. Further, Linda Nochlin explains that the art academy barred women from viewing any nude body, despite this being a crucial part of training."
Alice Barber article in ArtNet.
Elizabeth Campbell, Dame Ethel Walker (1861-1951) and Sheila Fell (1931-1979) and others at an exhibit at Lady Lever Art Gallery in Port Sunlight, Wirral in BBC article.
Jane E. Bartlett (1839 – 1923) was an American portraitist.
Katie Hector in Artnet.
Last updated 5/8/24
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