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HISTORY OF ART
WOMEN
these books are referenced in the
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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.
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Augusta Savage
b. 2-29-1892; Green Cove Springs, FL
d. 1962
Poster text: 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 artist. 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. ... more ...
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Elisabetta Sirani
b. 1-8-1638; Bologna
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.
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Marie Spartali Stillman -
b. 3-10-1844; England
d. 3-6-1927
Marie Sparali Stillman was a Pre-Raphaelite painter with a 60 year career.
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