Women Artists Posters & Prints “L...-”
for the social studies, art and art history/appreciation classrooms and home schoolers.

Adélaïde Labille-Guiard
b. 4-11-1749; Paris, France
d. 4-24-1803

Adelaide Labille-Guiard, trained as a miniaturist with Francois Elie Vincent, whom she also married, was a contemporary of Marie Louise Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun. Both women were admitted to the Academie Royale and were purportedly engaged in a professional rivalry.

References: Seeing Ourselves: Women's Self-Portraits by Frances Borzello, pp.22-21; Women, Art and Society, by Whitney Chadwick, pp. 164-165; Women Artists: An Illustrated History by Nancy G. Heller, pp.60-63; Adelaide Labille-Guillard, 1749-1803: Bibliographie et catalogue raisonne de son oeuvre by Anne-Maire Passez; Women Artists, by Wendy Slatkin, pp. 72.

Dorothea Lange, photographer
b. 5-26-1895; Hoboken, NJ
d. 10-11-1965; San Francisco, CA

Dorothea Lange, who contracted polio when she was seven, was a powerful documentarian and photojournalist.

In addition to her well known portrait called Migrant Mother she also recorded the forced evacuation of Japanese Americans to relocation camps for the War Relocation Authority (WRA) during World War II. The Army impounded the photographs when they deemed them critical of the “policy of detaining people without charging them with any crime or affording them any appeal.”

• “It (weak leg) formed me, guided me, instructed me, helped me and humiliated me. I've never gotten over it, and I am aware of the force and power of it.”

• History Through a Lens posters
• Story of “The Picture” as told by Florence Owen's grandson.

Marie Laurencin
b. 10-31-1883; Paris, France
d. 6-8-1956

Judith Leyster
b. 7-28-1609; Haarlem, The Netherlands
d. 2-10-1660

Tamara de Lempicka
b. 5-16-1898; Warsaw, Poland
d. 3-18-1980; Cuernavaca, Mexico

Anna Dorothea Lisiewska-Therbusch
b. 7-23-1721; Berlin, Germany
d. 11-9-1782

Anna Dorothea Lisiewska-Therbusch first teacher was her father Georg Lesiewski, she was later taught by Anton Pesne. She was the court painter to the Elector of the Palatine, elected to the Academie Royale, appointed to the court of the Empress of Russia and to King Frederick II of Prussia. Her sister, Rosina de Gase Lisiewska, was also an artist.
References: Seeing Ourselves: Women's Self-Portraits by Frances Borzello, pp.72-73.