Favourite women artists?

I know she may be over-rated, but I love Georgia O'Keefe's stuff.

Favourite
Georgia O'Keefe overrated? Hah! She's tops on my list.

Mary Cassatt is my favorite among the more traditional artists, and I rather like Louise Nevelson among the very moderns.

Mine would have to be Frida Kahlo and Julie Rrap oh and Patricia Piccinini

Just a few names of famous female painters from the past:

Sofonisba Anguissola, Italy about 1530-1625
Artemisia Gentileschi, Italy about 1593-1651
Angelica Kauffmann, Switzerland 1741-1807
Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, France 1755-1842
Paula Modersohn-Becker, Germany 1876-1962

And many many famous female photographers as Gisèle Freund, Tina Modotti, Abisag Tullmann etc. etc.

Gwen John

Her paintings are beautiful, subtle and before their time.

She led a very unusual life as well - she set off walking across France to Albi with a friend, sleeping in barns and hedges and cadging food. I seem to remember they aimed to get further but ran out of steam. She also had an affair with the sculptor Rodin, who she modelled for, and continued an unrequited passion for him for years,

Louise Nevelson and George O'Keefe

Discovering women artists
Wonderful site for discovering women artists.

http://wwol.is.asu.edu/

THE WORLD'S WOMEN ON-LINE! INSTITUTE FOR STUDIES IN THE ARTS, ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY AT TEMPE.

I've selected representative samples from among the hundreds of images in the gallery:

SAM SAM BURRUS: S. SAM BURRUS' "Come, Join With Me The Deer Clan" Watercolor. My favorite painting in the gallery.

Burrus is a member of the Paint Clan, Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. Her Indian name is Nannehi Tolese Siam (Going About Grasshopper Sam). She is a descendant of seven Chiefs of the Cherokees. Burrus prefers watercolors to tell her stories in her studio near Albuquerque, New Mexico.

YAN CHEN'S Purple Slope (another of my favorite paintings from this site.)

Amal Ftouni's Stereotype (3 image series) Medium: Computer generated image. (Another of my favorite images on this site.)

Georgette L. Owner's Indian Summer (I like this painting a lot.)

ELEANOR DICKENSON: Eleanor Dickinson is one of my favorite artists. I met her at her San Francisco Nude Line Drawing show in 1984. I bought prints of her entire wonderful exhibition. I've tried to find it on the show on the Internet without success so far.

Dickinson's Crucifixion of Dan.

Dickenson's "Revelations" gallery.

LINDSAY KENNY'S Crossroads.

CECIL HERRING'S great computer graphics: Bardo Passage Wave.

CORINNE WHITAKER'S "God's Childhood" Digital dye print (A visual treat)

MURIEL MAGENTA'S "Patio de la Pompadour" Computer graphics.

AMAL FTOUNI'S Stereotype (3 image series)Computer generated image.

MIDORI ABE'S "Summer Flower II" Wax resist dyeing on silk.

Anna Abdalla's Batik on Silk

Betsy Sterling Benjamin's wax resist on silk: Spirit House I

Chie Ohtani's The Sky of Nepal - Medium: Wax dyeing on silk

GEORGETTE L. OWEN'S "Indian Summer" Oil Painting.

Firyal al-Adhamy's The Princess UR Babashti

Sarah M. Al-Futtaim's After Math

Viria Salles Araya's Woman Protecting Cat from Dogs

Sheila McNellis Asato's Early Summer

Rae Atira-Soncea's Bronze From the Age of Water: Continuity

Maureen Burns-Bowie's Crystal Dance-Hints of Another World Medium: Porcelain and glass

Sue Avera-Booker's Mother's Choice

Michelle D. Baharier's English Country Garden II

Gudrun Christel Becker's No Animals Allowed

Margaret Benyon's Cosmetic Series: Richard Hamilton Medium: Reflection hologram

Lula Mae Blocton's Black and White

Christl Bolterauer's Typography Medium: Ink & paper

Prilla Smith Brackett's Two Hemispheres #5

Diane Burko's Into the Pacific II

Lill Ann Chepstow-Lusty's photo Bulgarian Women VI

Saloua Raouda Choucair's Hala Dual wood sculpture

Joyce Clement's Sun Temple III - Medium: 14 k white and yellow gold, 24 k gold, pearl, amethyst, turquoise, and garnet

Cheryl Cooper's Sup 1 Medium: Computer manipulated color print

Dawn Dale's Meandering - Medium: Uprooted earth, manual labour, rainwater, copper

Elba Damast's: Heart of the House - Medium: Wood, window screen, acrylic, 2000 figures of baked dough, plaster epoxy, sound, light

Rose Marie De Bruyne's Cristal de roche - Medium: Acrylic on canvas with marble powder

Mary Dritschel's installation: Pure as the Driven Snow

Ruth Duckworth's Animal Shelter Mural - Medium: Stoneware

Masuko Emi's Ornamental Green Pepper - Medium: China

Janika Febrikant's The Yellow Factory

Ann Ferguson-Durkin's Food for the Gods - Medium: Ceramic

Janet Fish's Fish Vase (still life)

Audrey Flack's Chanel

Silvie Fraser's Survol/Surplace - Medium: Metal, wood, rubber, and motor

Kimberly Garcia's Eye of Newt

France Garrido's The Healer

Alla Georgieva's There is a nice carpet at the Georgiev's house - Medium: Rose petals of seven different colors and stems of rose-bushes

Leslie Gifford's The Stag watercolor

Mary M. Ginn's plaster All our Treasures

Pat Courtney Gold's Time Spiral With Faces Medium: Asian hemp basket

Janet Goldner's Isms -Medium: Steel sculpture

Marianna Goodheart's : 6 Curves - Medium: Steel, painted black

Jenny Hunter Groat's First Oak

Ailie Ham's The Mighty Masi (fabric)

Annelise Hansen's Katharsis

Mamiko Hayashi's Porcelain Plate of a Boat

Karen Henninger's Invisible Work

Linda Hogan's Santa Catalina

Jacqueline Hurdebourcq's Fibers

Naz Ikramullah's The Secret Garden - Medium: Color laser prints, pastel, inks, gauze

Toshiko Ishii's Collapse (ceramics)

Alex Lomonaco's Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, at Midnight - Medium: Pure cotton, dyed cotton strings on linen

Diana Lyon's Spring Song of Jonquils and Daffodils watercolor

Willie Marlowe's Light Years from Now computer graphics

Irini Crouazier Masonidis's Portrait of a Girl

Sally Matthew's Ponies - medium: steel

Debra May's Undulation Bowl - Medium: Handblown glass, carved interior surface, amethyst-turquoise transparent glass

Sally McDenna's Grafitti Tree - Medium: Rusted painted steel, woven handloomed fiber, woven canvas, painted fiber, treated copper

Hye-Ja Moon's Sculpture After Symphonic Poem "Tod und Verklarung," op. 24 by Richard Strauss Medium: Bronze

Hitoko Okai's The Planet II - Medium: Clay

Betsy Padin's Piera de sol

Lina Passalacqua's Il Verbo Si E' Fatto Carne

Michela Perticucci's The black & white and red stripes painting #17

Bev Plum's My Dolly is Broken (Pastel)

Jane Pronko's New York 6:23

Pauline Quint's Elegante Cherry Wood Sculpture

Noemi Ramirez's : El Angel Caído - Medium: Resin, sand of volcanic stone, and polivre tané

Ufemia Rizk's Lol Nocturne

Esmeralda Rivera Ruiz's Una morena fumándose un cigarillo: A Brown Woman Smoking a Cigarette

Suzanne L. Sargent's Great Blue Heron - Medium: Pen and ink

Virginia Sharkey's Cummington Blue

Ayumi Shigematsu's Bone Ear '97-4 - Medium: Earthenware clay

Mitsuko Shimada's Genesis - Medium: Clay Size: Installation view

Suha Shoman's The Ledgend of Petra painting

The real story of Petra

Leah Siegel's Farragut.map - Medium: Computer drawing

Kay Spitler's Still Life

Kyako Takagi's Gokigen Tori / Smiling Chicken Medium: Ceramics

Liming Tang's Winter

Ayako Tsutsumia's Mozart K618 ceramic

Idelle Weber's Painted Polymita - Medium: Pastel on paper

Dolores Weiner's Lucite (Plexiglas) spirals

Andrea Wilkinson's Calon Lân (The Marion House Deaf Choir) - Medium: Ink Jet Print

Mariyo Yagi's Polar Axis - Medium: Sizal, steel, copper, concrete

Zhang Dehua's : Eight Militiawomen Jumping Into The River - Medium: Granite - Size: 1700 x 300 x 800 cm - Collaborators: Yu Jinyuan, Si Tu Zhaoguang, Cao Hunsheng, and Sun Jiabo

THE WORLD'S WOMEN ON-LINE!

The World's Women On-Line! is an electronic art networking project originally established to be presented at the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China in 1995. Utilizing the Internet as a global exhibition format, this site focuses attention on the challenge of bringing the vast resource of women's experience and culture into the rapidly developing field of information technology.

The World's Women On-Line! demonstrates the professionalism and achievement of women artists internationally; bridges language barriers through art imagery; and promotes the interdisciplinary collaboration between technologists and artists.

This exhibition is designed to travel. It is available around the clock on the Internet to the online audience--while at the same time it will be showcased as a museum scale, multimedia installation in major cities internationally.

When featured in gallery installations, the Internet images are screened over a moving backdrop--a specially designed 3-D computer animation created by Magenta on a Silicon Graphics system.

Each of these touring installations is site-specific according to the space and situation. For example, at the "hi-tech" A.S.U. Computing Commons Gallery the imagery was magnified onto an 8 foot video wall; whereas at the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China it was presented as a totally portable, battery-powered installation that was shown on a powerbook and VCR in several different locations. A multimedia installation was exhibited at the Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, as part of their Ada: Women and Technology exhibition during March 1996. Then it was screened on videowall and on Internet at the National Music Theater Festival, Annenberg Center, Philadelphia, also March 1996.

Creative research for The World's Women On-Line! is conducted at Arizona State University:
Institute for Studies in the Arts
Artist Muriel Magenta - Project Collaborators

Institute for Studies in the Arts, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-3302, U.S.A.
Telephone: (480) 965-4483, Direct FAX: (480) 965-2533
E-mail: [email protected]

What a treasure trove of information. Thank you BBB! Thanks mistral and dr. for some names I dont know....

Vivien I also love Gwen John's work. Her tonal changes were so subtle. Apparently her brother painter Augustus John used to? peer fixedly"at her work trying to discern the most miniscule changes in value. Out of the gloom of one of her self-portraits for example, with the tiniest of change in value, a cat would appear...

I also like the power and austerity of Nevelson 's work. I attended a masquerade dressed as Nevelson...all black attire and the cumbersome 3 pairs of false eyelashes....

Sam Sam Burrus
This is my favorite by Sam Sam Burrus:

http://wwol.is.asu.edu/.images/s_burrus.jpg

Very red, white and blue, BBB.

Vigee-LeBrun, for sure. Love her work.

Gentelischi I like quite a bit, but some of her drawing is awkward.

I think Violet Oakley is underrated. Jesse Wilcox Smith has a following, but she's been pigeonholed. Her entire range of work has much to offer.

Welcome, eegah, especially if you are an art liker who also is fond of cats...

will come back tomorrow and look up the names you mentioned...

Ive always had O'Keefe at the top of my list as well

I hope everyone here has seen the Mary Cassatt 37-cent stamps!

I'd put in a strong vote for Helen Frankenthaler. And Julie Mehretu.

Mehretu:

http://www.walkerart.org/programs/vaexhibjuliemehretu.html

http://www.barbaradavisgallery.com/Artists/Mehretu.htm

http://www.nmafa.si.edu/exhibits/passages/mehretu.html

Thanks for introducting the art of Mehretu -- love the introduction of line into the abstractions. It relates a kind of textural surface and excites the imagination.

They're like maps, LW. They just kind of suckyou in.

I did find myself enthralled in exploring the space in the imagery, much like Pollock who also used linear forms. The majority of abstraction is absent of line and this imagery still does not use line to delineate forms or shapes, the lines are forms in themselves. There's also an influence of Cy Twombly and Marcel Duchamp.

My favorite female artist is the photographer Mary Ellen Mark. She's my idol.

A very comprehensive web site of her work is at www.maryellenmark.com

I can spend hours and hours there.