ART BY WOMEN - WOMEN IN ARTS

Samia Halaby (Palestinian, born 1936), Growing Wild, 2010. Acrylic on canvas, 152 x 183 cm. https://palianshow.wordpress.com/2025/12/12/samia-halaby/

Virginia Overton, ‘Untitled (Ducati for Lavinia)’, 2024. © Virginia Overton. ⁠

Victoria Andersson (Swedish Sámi) Årsringar (2012)

Tracey Emin, ‘I Loved You Until the Morning’, 2025. © Tracey Emin. All rights reserved, DACS 2026.

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Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. Capital and largest city Tallinn | Ethnic groups (2026) 68.5% Estonians 20.2% Russians 5.4% Ukrainians 4.6% other 0.6% undeclared

It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, and to the east by Russia. The territory of Estonia consists of the mainland, the larger islands of Saaremaa and Hiiumaa, and over 2,300 other islands and islets on the east coast of the Baltic Sea. Its capital city of Tallinn, along with the city of Tartu, are the country's two largest urban areas. The Estonian language, of the Finnic family, is the official language and the first language of the majority of nearly 1.4 million people. Estonia is one of the least populous member states of the European Union. viaW

Dagny Juel (1867-1901) https://herstorypalianshow.wordpress.com/2025/06/08/dagny-juel/ Dagny Juel aka Dagny Juel-Przybyszewska (8 June 1867 – 5 June 1901) was a Norwegian writer. She was shot dead in a hotel room in Tbilisi, Georgia in 1901, three days before her thirty-fourth birthday. via W

Dora Gordine (1895-1991) https://palianshow.wordpress.com/2026/06/08/dora-gordine/ Dora Gordine (8 June 1895 – 29 December 1991) was an Estonian Jewish Modernist figurative and portraitist sculptor. Her early career was influenced by the Noor Eesti (‘Young Estonia’) group of artists who favoured Art Nouveau. She moved to Paris (...) Her latter career was not as prolific or as fêted and Gordine was relatively unknown at the time of her death. Major exhibitions in London in 2006 and 2009 have revived her standing and her former home is now a museum. via W

Alice Rahon (1904-1987) https://palianshow.wordpress.com/2026/06/08/alice-rahon/ Alice Rahon | Alice Phillipot (born: Alice Marie Ivonne Philippot, 8 June 1904, Chenecey-Buillon, France – Sept 1987, Mexico City, Mexico) was a French-born Mexican poet and artist whose work contributed to the beginning of abstract expression in Mexico.She began as a surrealist poet in Europe but began painting in Mexico. via W

Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (1912-2004) https://palianshow.wordpress.com/2024/06/08/wilhelmina-barns-graham/ Wilhelmina Barns-Graham CBE (8 Jun 1912 – 26 Jan 2004) was one of the foremost British abstract artists, a member of the influential Penwith Society of Arts. via W

Hannelore Baron (1926-1987) 100thbday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! https://palianshow.wordpress.com/2025/06/08/hannelore-baron/ Hannelore Baron (June 8, 1926 – April 28, 1987) was a German-born American artist who created highly personal, book-sized, abstract collages and box constructions, and exhibited in the late 1960s. via W

Audrey Marie Munson (June 8, 1891 – February 20, 1996) was an American artist's model and film actress, considered to be "America's first supermodel." In her time, she was variously known as "Miss Manhattan", the "Panama–Pacific Girl", the "Exposition Girl" and "American Venus." She was the model or inspiration for more than twelve statues in New York City, and many others elsewhere. Munson appeared in four silent films, including unclothed in Inspiration (1915). She was one of the first American actresses to appear nude in a non-pornographic film. Via Wikipedia

Vera Nikolić Podrinska (June 8, 1886 in Zagreb – March 28, 1972 in Zagreb) was a Croatian painter and baroness. via W

Vera Nikolic Podrinska was a Croatian painter and baroness. Podrinska was the daughter of baron Vladimir Nikolic and baronness Elle née Scotti. Nikolic was taught painting by the Croatian painter Oton Ivekovi? from 1900, and in Paris by Andre Lhote and hr:Leo Junek. In 1917 she had her first one-woman show. In 1944 a prison camp was established at her property on Pantovcak street in Zagreb by the government of the Independent State of Croatia. At the camp were held American captured pilots. The pilots were allowed to work at Nikolic vineyard and could use her estate to play tennis and listen to music, among other activities. After the war her property was either nationalized or bought up by the ruling Communist Party and Vila Zagorje, an estate of Yugoslav leader Josip Broz, was built. She published the travel book Od Zagreba do Bangkoka (From Zagreb to Bangkok) in 1957. Nikolic travelled to the United States of America in 1966 to attend a showing of her works. She was greeted by several of the former prisoners who were held at her estate during World War II. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/215002130/vera-nikolic-podrinska