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# Stories of Women Artists

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Women artists have faced enormous barriers to achieve the recognition and success of their male peers. Explore the breadth of their stories, ranging from their artistic and material innovations, the ways they defied and reinvented conventions, and the people who inspired them. Discover your new favorite artist here.

Female Trailblazers

Gee's Bend Quilters Embody the Legacy of Black America
The artisans from the tiny town of Gee's Bend, Alabama, have been making a global impact for generations.

Alma Thomas’s Tiptoe Through the Tulips in Living Color

Anne Vallayer-Coster Painting, Missing for Centuries, Now at the National Gallery of Art

Out of the Shadows, Lois Mailou Jones Finds her Place in the Sun 

Queer Artists Grete Stern and Ellen Auerbach: ringl + pit

Ruth Asawa's Little-Known Experiment with Printmaking

Simone Leigh: Acts of Transformation

Centering People Left out of View

How Photographer Christina Fernandez Makes Invisible Labor Visible
Fernandez turned her lens to a form of work that is often overlooked—domestic labor. Her pictures illuminate both the beauty of these daily scenes and their cost.

Alice Neel Painted People, Even in Their AbsenceCarrie Mae Weems on the Everyday Experiences of Black Women at the Kitchen Table

Ming Smith on Transcendence and BelongingMary Cassatt Brings Girls and Women into the Museum

Artists You Should Know

Lavinia Fontana and Lucia Bonasoni Garzoni: Talented 16th-Century Women
Meet the first professional woman painter to run her own studio and her sitter, a formidable musician in her own right. 

Who is Dorothea Lange? 6 Things to Know

Who is Marisol? 7 Things to Know

Three Women Artists You May Not Have Heard Of

The Fight for Gender Equality

Mary Cassatt's Suffragist Symbolism
What does this radiant sunflower have to do with the fight for women's right to vote?

Five Artworks for Talking about FeminismMarisol Celebrates Women's Equality Day

Artists Respond to Artists

Lindsay Adams on Howardena Pindell

Poet Victoria Chang Responds to Anne Truitt

Bianca Nemelc on Lola Álvarez Bravo and Ana Mendieta

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