Yesterday I read Maura Reilly's Art News article on gender disparity in the art world. It wasn't surprising after recently seeing the Guerrilla Girls show and hearing two members of the group lecture at Pomona College Museum of Art, but it was disheartening. Half of the world are women, and yet only 30% of art shown in public institutions is made by women. It makes for a culture that is incomplete and out of balance, missing the different perspectives that come with different experience: whether that is the experience that comes from being a woman, of a non-white or mixed ethnic background, of non-heterosexual orientation, having a physical or mental disability or disease, or anything else that makes one's experience unique, distinct, unusual, an important addition to the full story of what it is to be human. Here is a small selection of my favorite (representational) painters who are also women. Gwen John The Convalescent oil on canvas 1923-1924 Christiane Pflug Kitchen Door with Ursula oil on canvas 1960 Louise Moillon Still Life with Cherries, Strawberries and Gooseberries oil on panel 1630 Rachel Ruysch Nosegay on a Marble Plinth oil on canvas 1695 Fede Galizia Still Life with Apples and Peaches oil on canvas 1607 Sofonisba Anguissola The Chess Game oil on canvas 1555 Clara Peeters Still Life with Cheeses, Artichoke and Cherries oil on panel 1625 Frida Kahlo Tunas: Still Life with Prickly Pear Fruit oil on panel 1938 Georgia O'Keefe Oriental Poppies oil on canvas 1928 Joan Brown Self-Portrait oil on canvas 1970 Suzanne Valadon the Blue Room oil on canvas 1923 Alice Neel Hartley oil on canvas 1965 Mary Cassat Young Woman Sewing in the Garden oil on canvas 1880-1882 Berthe Morisot Summer oil on canvas 1880 Paula Modersohn-Becker Self Portrait oil on panel 1907 Jane Frielicher In Broad Daylight oil on canvas 1979 Meria Sibylla Merian two botanical watercolor paintings about 1665
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