ART BY WOMEN - WOMEN IN ARTS

Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957) https://palianshow.wordpress.com/2024/06/13/dorothy-l-sayers-are-women-human-repost/ Dorothy Leigh Sayers (13 Jun 1893 – 17 Dec 1957) was an English crime novelist, playwright, translator and critic. via W

Maria Helena Vieira da Silva (1908-1992) https://palianshow.wordpress.com/2026/06/13/vieira-da-silva/ Maria Helena Vieira da Silva (13 June 1908 – 6 March 1992) was a Portuguese abstract painter. She was considered a leading member of the European abstract expressionism movement known as Art Informel. Her works feature complex interiors and city views using lines that explore space and perspective. She also worked in tapestry and stained glass. via W

Priscilla Roberts (born Priscilla Warren Roberts, June 13, 1916 Glen Ridge, New Jersey–August 5, 2001 (aged 85) Georgetown, Connecticut) was an American artist known for her still life paintings. Roberts employed a precise style in which fanciful objects were juxtaposed in a manner that was seen to approach surrealism and that was often called magic realist. In 1960, a critic writing for Arts Magazine said, "There can hardly be any doubt that Priscilla Roberts is the most talented and accomplished Magic Realist in America." Via Wikipedia

Maria Helena Vieira da Silva (13 June 1908 – 6 March 1992) was a Portuguese abstract painter. Denise Colomb, Vieira Da Silva, 1950 Medium gelatin silver print Size 34 x 27.5 cm. (13.4 x 10.8 in.) She was considered a leading member of the European abstract expressionism movement known as Art Informel. Her works feature complex interiors and city views using lines that explore space and…

Audrey Niffenegger (born June 13, 1963) is an American writer, artist, and academic. Her debut novel, The Time Traveler's Wife, published in 2003, was a bestseller. Via W

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.