ART BY WOMEN - WOMEN IN ARTS

Nellie Mae Rowe, 1980

born Fayetteville, GA 1900-Vinings, GA 1982

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A woman claiming to be the sole heir to the Austrian subject of a long-lost Gustav Klimt painting has sued for restitution of the portrait, which came to auction at the small Austrian auction house Im Kinsky in 2024. The painting sold on a single bid for $37.5 million, setting a record for any artwork sold at auction in Austria, but the bidder, a Hong Kong collector represented by Patti Wong and Associates, withdrew their offer after the sale.

Women re-modelling art worlds: Exhibitions and Projects on Southeast Asian Women Artists (1990-2015) By Yvonne Low https://www.academia.edu/19626418/Women_re_modelling_art_worlds_Exhibitions_and_Projects_on_Southeast_Asian_Women_Artists_1990_2015_

Gillian Wearing, from the series “Signs that Say What You Want Them To Say and Not Signs that Say What Someone Else Wants You To Say,” 1992–93, C-print on aluminum. “Catastrophe and the Power of Art,” Mori Art Museum.

Djuna Barnes (June 12, 1892 – June 18, 1982) was an American artist, illustrator, journalist, and writer who is perhaps best known for her novel Nightwood (1936), a cult classic of lesbian fiction and an important work of modernist literature. via W

Marta Pan (1923 – 2008) https://palianshow.wordpress.com/2026/06/12/marta-pan/ Marta Pan (12 June 1923, Budapest – 12 Oct 2008, Paris) was a French abstract sculptor of Hungarian origin. She studied art at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Budapest. In 1946 Pan moved to Paris. Her sculptures are highly concerned with balance, symmetry, and geometry. She often created her works so that they were site-specific and worked with the surrounding environment. Pan died on 12 October 2008 in Paris, France. ViaW

Zhang Linlin (張玲麟, born Xiangxiang, June 12, 1933), better known by the Hong Kong stage name Chung Ching (鍾情; Zhōng Qíng), is a popular leading lady of Hong Kong films in the 1950s. After completing 54 films from 1953 to 1967, starring as the leading role in many of them, she retired from film at the height of her career to become well known as a painter using both shui-mo and Western watercolor techniques.via W

Lucia Nogueira, No Time for Commas, 1993, battery-operated toy, paper bag, and wood. Bienal de São Paulo.

Dorothea Tanning, Étreinte (Embrace), 1969, flannel and fake fur stuffed with wool.

Helen M. Post, Anni Albers in her weaving studio at Black Mountain College, 1937, courtesy of the Western Regional Archives, State Archives of North Carolina

Anni Albers, Sunny, 1965, weaving, Corcoran Collection (Gift of Olga Hirshhorn), 2015.19.4093

Anni Albers (born Annelise Elsa Frieda Fleischmann, Jun 12, 1899 – May 9, 1994) was a German textile artist and printmaker credited with blurring the lines between traditional craft and art. Via W

Mickalene Thomas, Qusuquzah Lounging with Pink + Black Flower, 2016, rhinestones, acrylic, and oil on wood panel.

Portrait of Djuna Barnes by

Berenice Abbott (1898-1991), 1926

Djuna Barnes (/ˈdʒuːnɑː/ JOO-nah; June 12, 1892 – June 18, 1982) was an American artist, illustrator, journalist, and writer who is perhaps best known for her novel Nightwood (1936),[2] a cult classic of lesbian fiction and an important work of modernist literature. via W

Anni Albers, ca. 1960, Photo: Josef Albers

Artwork details in order of appearance: Anni Albers, Intersecting, 1962; Code, 1962; Black-White-Gray (executed by workshop Gunta Stölzl), 1927/1964 © 2026 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation/ProLitteris, Zurich https://www.facebook.com/share/1APuXV9mhT