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: Lisa Yuskavage 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 brillia...