Women Artists born on 19th June
Magdalena Margareta Stenbock (19 June 1744 – 18 July 1822), was a Swedish artist. She was an honorary member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts (1795). She served as lady-in-waiting to the queen of Sweden, Sophia Magdalena of Denmark. Hedwig Elizabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp describe her in her famous journal as energetic and firm. via W
Connecticut House, ca. 1800. Watercolor and ink on wove paper, 13 x 16 in., Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center, Williamsburg
Rebecca Couch (June 19, 1788 – September 4, 1863) was an American painter. Couch was born in Redding, Connecticut, the eldest daughter of Thomas Nash Couch and Abigail Stebbins Couch. She could have received training in watercolor technique, the medium for which she is most well known, in school. She had seven children. Two of Couch's paintings, executed in watercolor and ink, are in the collection of the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum, Williamsburg, Virginia. One of these works had been acquired from the collection of J. Stuart Halladay and Herrel George Thomas. According to the museum's catalog, a needlework picture on silk that she completed at age fifteen is the only other work by her that had been documented by 1988. via W
Mary Edwell-Burke (1894–1988), was an Australian painter and carver. | Born; Mary Edwards 19 June 1894 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Died: 19 January 1988 (aged 93) Fiji
gallery: https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/?artist_id=edwell-burke-mary
Catherine O'Brien | Catherine Amelia "Kitty" O'Brien (19 June 1881 – 18 July 1963) was an Irish stained glass artist, and a member and director of An Túr Gloine. via W
Petronėlė Gerlikienė, née Kromelyte (June 19, 1905, Chicago, United States – March 14, 1979, Vilnius, Lithuania), was a Lithuanian painter and textile folk artist. She lived and worked in a farm in Samogitia; after retiring, she moved to Vilnius to live with her son's family. Gerlikiene began creating large-scale tapestries in 1972, paintings in 1976 and began participating in exhibitions in 1974. Petronele Gerlikiene's art has won recognition and numerous prizes in Lithuania and abroad. via W art gallery : https://www.silalesbiblioteka.lt/petronele-gerlikiene/
Arcadia Olenska-Petryshyn | Arcadia Ivanivna Olenska-Petryshyn | Аркадія Оленська-Петришин, (née Olenska; June 19, 1934 – May 6, 1996) was an American artist, art critic and editor. She was born in Roznoshyntsi, Second Polish Republic (now Ukraine). She left Poland with her family in 1944, moving to Augsburg in Germany. Five years later, they moved to the United States, settling in New York City. She was educated at Washington Irving High School and went on to earn a MA at Hunter College, where she studied with Robert Motherwell and William Baziotes. Later, she pursued post-graduate work at the University of Chicago. via W
Jagoda Kaloper (19 June 1947 – 1 October 2016) was a Croatian visual artist, filmmaker, and actress known for various roles in films in the Yugoslav cinema. via W Jagoda Kaloper was a Croatian painter and actress famous for groundbreaking roles in classic films in the former Yugoslav cinema. A native of Zagreb and a graduate of the Zagreb Art Academy, Kaloper made her screen debut in the 1965 film Ključ, lacking any previous acting experience. She made a good impression and continued to appear in films, including the 1969 drama Handcuffs. https://www.themoviedb.org/person/234293-jagoda-kaloper
Adriana Melo (June 19, 1976) is a Brazilian comic book artist, colorist, and penciller. She has worked on various Star Wars, Marvel Comics, and DC Comics titles. Notably, she worked on the Star Wars: Empire series. She has also worked on DC Comics' Rose & Thorn and Birds of Prey as well as Top Cow's Witchblade and Marvel Comics's Ms. Marvel. In 2018 she collaborated with writer Gail Simone on a six-issue DC miniseries featuring Plastic Man. via W
Szibilla Margó Bakó (born Bakó Margit Szibilla on June 19, 1986 in Szeged, Hungary) is a Hungarian painter, freelance music journalist, guitarist and composer. She was a student of the sculptor, Lőrinc Popovics, the Hungarian painter, Ferenc Szalay and Hungarian textile artist, Judit Szabó. Bakó writes for a Hungarian, nationwide rock magazine, RockinforM. Besides being an active painter, and a music journalist, she writes English lyrics, and fronts Katona trio, a blues band with blues guitarist, Tamás Katona Sr., and appears in other formations too. via W
