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Women and Art

6/11/2015

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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.

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Gwen John   The Convalescent   oil on canvas  1923-1924
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Christiane Pflug   Kitchen Door with Ursula   oil on canvas   1960
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Louise Moillon  Still Life with Cherries, Strawberries and Gooseberries   oil on panel   1630
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Rachel Ruysch  Nosegay on a Marble Plinth   oil on canvas  1695
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Fede Galizia  Still Life with Apples and Peaches   oil on canvas  1607
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Sofonisba Anguissola   The Chess Game    oil on canvas   1555
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Clara Peeters   Still Life with Cheeses, Artichoke and Cherries   oil on panel  1625
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Frida Kahlo   Tunas: Still Life with Prickly Pear Fruit   oil on panel  1938
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Georgia O'Keefe   Oriental Poppies   oil on canvas  1928
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Joan Brown   Self-Portrait   oil on canvas   1970
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Suzanne Valadon   the Blue Room   oil on canvas  1923
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Alice Neel   Hartley   oil on canvas  1965
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Mary Cassat   Young Woman Sewing in the Garden   oil on canvas   1880-1882
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Berthe Morisot   Summer   oil on canvas   1880
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Paula Modersohn-Becker   Self Portrait   oil on panel  1907
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Jane Frielicher  In Broad Daylight   oil on canvas  1979
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Meria Sibylla Merian   two botanical watercolor paintings   about 1665
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