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Mary Cassatt Calendars
Mary Cassatt Calendars


Georgia O'Keeffe Calendars
Georgia O'Keeffe Calendars


Frida Kahlo Calendars
Frida Kahlo Calendars






HISTORY OF ART
WOMEN
these books are referenced in the
short biographies
of women artists

Women, Art, and Society
Women, Art,
and Society


Women Artists: An Illustrated History
Women Artists:
An Illustrated History


Women Artists
Women Artists


Seeing Ourselves
Seeing Ourselves
Women Self Portraits




Annotated Mona Lisa: Art history
Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History



star color wheel
Art Education
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art supplies online

Online Art Supplies



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Women Artists Posters & Prints “S...-T...-”
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Notable Women Artists ~

Betye Saar
Augusta Savage

Elisabetta Sirani
Jessie Willcox Smith

Marie Spartali Stillman
Alma Woodsey Thomas



Ma Rainey, Photographic Print
Betye Saar

Betye Saar
b. 7-30-1926; Los Angeles, CA

Artist Betye Saar is best known for her work in the field of assemblage and collage. Saar collected stereotyped African-American images from advertising and folk culture, combining them into political and protest statements.


In Her Hands: The Story of Sculptor Augusta Savage
In Her Hands:
The Story of Sculptor
Augusta Savage

Augusta Savage, née Fells
b. 2-29-1892; Green Cove Springs, FL
d. 3-26-1962; New York

While Augusta Savage is mostly known as a sculptor, she was also a wonderful art teacher and a tireless supporter of the rights of all artists, expecially black artists. But she was lucky that she was able to pursue her art at all. She grew up in Florida with thirteen brothers and sisters. Her father was a strict Methodist minister who believed that the Bible forbade creating “graven images.” He punished Augusta whevever he found any of the small clay figurines she made as a child. But she did not let that get in her way. As she got older, she won awards for her work – and she also won her father's approval. She headed north to Harlem in 1921.

Savage's talent won her scholarships and friends among Harlem's elite. She was hired to sculpt the likenesses of some of the major black political figures of the time, including W.E.B. Du Bois and Marcus Garvey. Then, in 1923, she applied for a special summer arts program in France. When the selection committee found out Savage was black, however, her application was rejected. The controversy became front-page news in New York, as many scholars and community leaders rallied to her cause. But it wasn't until six years later that she was finally able to study in France.

In her later years, Savage spent more of her time teaching than sculpting. She founded a school that became the Harlem Community Art Center, the largest art center in the United States. One of her students, Jacob Lawrence, went on to become perhaps the most successful African American painter of all time. The art world lost a major figure when Augusta Savage died in 1962. [Text from an out-of-stock Stars of the Harlem Renaissance poster.]


Elisabetta Sirani - Judith with the Head of Holofernes, Giclee Print
Elisabetta Sirani -
Judith with the Head
of Holofernes,
Giclee Print

Elisabetta Sirani
b. 1-8-1638; Bologna, Italy
d. 8-25-1665

Elisabetta Sirani, the daughter of a painter, was noted in her short lifetime for her portraits, mythological, Holy Family, and Virgin and Child paintings, drawings and etching. By the time she was nineteen, she was running the family workshop and supporting her parents and siblings. She was also a noted teacher. After she died suddenly at the age of twenty seven, it was discovered she suffered from ulcers.


Jessie Wilcox Smith -Good Housekeeping, April 1922, Art Print
Jessie Wilcox Smith -
Good Housekeeping,
April 1922,
Art Print

Jessie Willcox Smith
b. 9-6-1863; Philadelphia, PA
d. 5-3-1935


Marie Spartali Stillman -Pharmakeutria (Brewing the Love Philtre), Giclee Print
Marie Spartali Stillman -Pharmakeutria (Brewing the Love Philtre),
Giclee Print

Marie Spartali Stillman
b. 3-10-1844; London, England
d. 3-6-1927; London

Marie Sparali Stillman was a Pre-Raphaelite painter with a 60 year career.


Alma Woodsey Thomas: A Retrospective of the Paintings
Alma Woodsey Thomas:
A Retrospective of the Paintings

Alma Woodsey Thomas
b. 9-22-1891; Columbus, Georgia
d. 2-24-1978; Washington, DC

Artist Alma Woodsey Thomas was the first graduate of Howard University’s newly organized art department (1924). In 1972 she became the first African American woman to hold a solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Notable Women Artists - Lois Mailou Jones - Les Fetiches Wall Poster
The Eclipse,
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She was also a noted teacher, starting a community arts program that encouraged student appreciation of fine art.

Alma Woodsey Thomas quote ~
• “Creative art is for all time and is therefore independent of time. It is of all ages, of every land, and if by this we mean the creative spirit in man which produces a picture or a statue is common to the whole civilized world, independent of age, race and nationality; the statement may stand unchallenged.”


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