ART BY WOMEN - WOMEN IN ARTS

Mary Reynolds “Untitled (Photo Booth Self-Portrait),” about 1925–1940.

Mary Reynolds Collection, gift of Marjorie Watkins, October 1992

photo Photography Marina Monaco,

HOMELESS SOULS By Isabel Tejeda Martin | Translated by Laura Suffield

“Being in a foreign country means walking a tightrope high above the ground without the net afforded a person by the country where he has his family, colleagues and friends, and where he can easily say what he has to say in a language he has known from childhood.” (Milan Kundera)

When looking at the work of the Czech photographer Jitka Hanzlová, the initial challenge lies in relating it to the statement that she made to me in her house in Essen last year and which appears at the start of this essay below the quotations from Julio Cortazar and Milan Kundera. In my opinion all her series are portraits. Experienced and analysed from that viewpoint, all those looks and expressions, shot in vertical format in distant parts of the world, reflect her statement and have a bearing on the relationship of the individual with the context in which that person lives. source and more: http://www.jitkahanzlova.com/about.htm

Art by Minh Lan Tran, photo Magda Pawluczuk, Vasyl Chornyy

Born 1997 in Hong Kong

Ethel Walker, full name: Dame Ethel Walker DBE ARA (9 June 1861 – 2 March 1951) was a Scottish painter of portraits, flower-pieces, sea-pieces and decorative compositions. Via W

Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller (1877-1968) https://palianshow.wordpress.com/2025/06/09/meta-vaux-warrick-fuller/ Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller (born Meta Vaux Warrick; June 9, 1877 – March 13, 1968) was an African-American artist who celebrated Afrocentric themes. At the fore of the Harlem Renaissance, Warrick was known for being a poet, painter, theater designer, and sculptor of the black American experience. At the turn of the 20th century, she achieved a reputation as the first black woman sculptor and was a well-known sculptor in Paris before returning to the United States.Through adopting a horror-based figural style and choosing to depict events of racial injustice, like the lynching of Mary Turner, Warrick used her platform to address the societal traumas of African Americans. Via W

May Stevens (1924-2019) https://palianshow.wordpress.com/2026/06/09/may-stevens/ May Stevens (June 9, 1924 – Dec 9, 2019) was an American feminist artist, political activist, educator, and writer. Via W

Photographer Marion Post Wolcott standing in snow with cameras (detail), between 1935 and 1942. (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection/Prints and Photographs Division) https://blogs.loc.gov/picturethis/about/

Marion Post Wolcott (June 7, 1910 – Nov 24, 1990) was an American photographer who worked for the Farm Security Administration during the Great Depression, documenting poverty, the Jim Crow South, and deprivation. via W

Yvette Denise Lee Bowser (born June 9, 1965)[1] is an American television writer and producer best known for creating the Fox sitcom Living Single. With Living Single, she became the first African-American woman to develop her own primetime series. via W