Yvette Coppersmith is the 10th woman to receive the Archibald Prize since its inception in 1921 in 2018. Nora Heysen was the first woman to win in 1938, at the age of 27; she is still the youngest winner. Del Kathryn Baron and Judy Cassab have each won it twice. The only other female winner more than once is Elizabeth Frink, who received the prize in 1943 and 1945. She died in 1946, having never regained consciousness after the first exhibition. The most recent female winner was born in New South Wales, Australia. Her work is entitled "Black Girl with Arms Outstretched". It consists of a black girl with her arms outstretched toward the viewer over a white background. This piece also won the 2015 Archibald Prize. Heysen's mother was born in Germany. When she was two years old, her family moved to Victoria (Australia) where she grew up. She left school at 14 to help support her family by working as a office assistant and later as an administrative assistant for the Victorian Education Department. In 1936, she became the first female teacher in Victoria when she was appointed to a position at Mooroolbark State School in Melbourne's eastern suburbs. She remained there for three years before being promoted to senior grade officer responsible for about 20 schools in the region. Baron was a painter and printmaker who worked in Sydney from about 1910 until her death in 1994.