ART BY WOMEN - WOMEN IN ARTS

Marlise Keith, Devil’s Fruit, 2016.

A sweeping exhibition at London's Tate Britain spotlights the U.K.'s great women artists that history forgot.

Although many women artists gained recognition in their lifetimes, their names have too often fallen into obscurity as art historians privileged the achievements of their male peers. The exhibition “Now You See Us: Women Artists in Britain 1520–1920” at Tate Britain in London brings together paintings by over 100 artists with a connection to the U.K., debunking the widely held assumption that there were very few significant women artists before the 20th century.

Maria Cosway (1760–1838) Florence Claxton (1838–1920) Louise Jopling (1843–1933) Edmonia Lewis (1844–1907) Clare Atwood (1866–1962) Laura Knight (1877–1970)

(Maria Helena) Ellen Jolin (16 June 1854 – 25 May 1939) was a Swedish writer, painter and graphic artist. Image scanned from the book “Svenskt Porträttgalleri XX – Arkitekter, Bildhuggare, Målare m.fl. ” (“Swedish Portrait Gallery XX – Architects, Sculptors, Painters, “) published 1901, via Wikipedia Ellen Jolin (Swedish, 1854 – 1939): Vegetable Still Life with Game and Lobster (1888) (via…

Zenaida Bandur - Ercegović 16.06.1855. 2.07.1946. Education: In Split, with Emanuel Vidović and V.Meneghello Dinčić. In Dubrovnik with Kosta Strajnić. Biography: The Ercegović family was a respectable family in Dubrovnik. Until 1945 they owned part of the Rector's Palace. In 1915 Zenaida married the land owner and householder Tonko Bandur. From 1930 she lived in Zagreb (19 Heinzelova), and very actively participated in exhibitions of Women's Fine Arts Club from its foundation until the Club's last exhibition in Osijek in 1940. Critics emphasised her excellent painting technique (J. Miše, I. Šrepel). www.donacijegz.mdc.hr/slikarica.aspx?lng=EN&id=10

Anna Adelaïde Abrahams

Born 16 June 1849

Middelburg, Netherlands

Died 18 January 1930 (aged 80)

The Hague, Netherlands

Julia Bell Reichert (June 16, 1946 – December 1, 2022) was an American Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker, activist, and feminist. She was a co-founder of New Day Films. Reichert's filmmaking career spanned over 50 years as a director and producer of documentaries.

Reichert was a four-time Academy Award-nominated director, for Union Maids (1977), Seeing Red: Stories of American Communists (1984), The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant (2010) and American Factory (2020, for which she won an Oscar).

She was a two-time winner of the Primetime Emmy, a two-time nominee of the Peabody Award, and director of two films on the National Film Registry. Via Wikipedia

https://www.thelantern.com/2019/10/julia-reichert-celebrates-50-years-in-film-industry/