Female Artists

People are always saying that female artists have been and are underrepresented. I wasn’t so sure, so I went on a quest to find some. I found a lot, but I didn’t really recognize a lot of their names. So, I’m compiling an ongoing list of my discoveries.

Baroque

Mary Beale

Élisabeth Sophie Chéron

Artemisia Gentileschi

Maria Theresa van Thielen

Renaissance

Lavinia Fontana

Fede Galizia

Victorian Artists

Margaret Gillies

Impressionists

Cecilia Beaux

Marie Bracquemond

Mary Cassatt

Eva Gonzalès

Berthe Morrisot

Abstract Expressionists

Sophie Taeuber-Arp

Jay DeFeo

Elaine de Kooning

Helen Frankenthaler

Sonia Gechtoff

Lee Krasner

Joan Mitchell

Gabriele Munter

Alma Thomas

Michael West

Irish Artists

Letitia Bushe

Sarah Cecelia Harrison

Sarah Pursor

Surrealism

Frida Khalo

Modernism

Georgia O’ Keefe