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While working in a sideshow in 1939, Broadbent challenged the traditional views of beauty for women during the 1930s by participating in a beauty pageant at the 1939 New York World's Fair. [6] Broadbent died in her sleep while living in Florida on March 28, 1983. [7] Betty Broadbent, 4 April 1938
Pancho Barnes and the Women's Air Derby, Long Beach, California, circa 1930–1931. Barnes had extensive connections in Hollywood. Her early close friend George Hurrell (1904–1992), then eking out a living as a painter and photographer in Laguna Beach, California, would later become the head of the portrait department of MGM Studios. Barnes ...
Berenice Abbott (1898–1991), black and white photography of New York's architecture in the 1930s, part of the straight photography movement; Esther Henderson Abbott (1911–2008), first woman photographer for Arizona Highways Magazine; Harriet Chalmers Adams (1875–1937), explorer whose expedition photographs were published in National ...
She then co-founded the National Women's Political Caucus, was the first Black woman to serve on the House Rules Committee, and spent her life championing equality, pacifism, and ending poverty ...
She was a member of the California-based Group f/64, known for its dedication to the sharp-focus rendition of simple subjects. [68] Margaret Bourke-White (1906–1971) was the first foreigner to photograph Soviet industry as well as the first female war correspondent and the first woman photographer to work for Life. [69]
This is a partial list of 20th-century women artists, sorted alphabetically by decade of birth.These artists are known for creating artworks that are primarily visual in nature, in traditional media such as painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, ceramics as well as in more recently developed genres, such as installation art, performance art, conceptual art, digital art and video art.
From itty-bitty bottoms to designer tops, stars can't stop showing off their curves in bikinis. Kendall Jenner and Hailey Bieber kicked off 2024 with sizzling snaps from their tropical getaway ...
19 April 1930 Crosbie Garstin: 42 Salcombe, England Crosbie Garstin was a poet and best-selling novelist who mysteriously disappeared in the Salcombe estuary on 19 April 1930. Garstin's body was never recovered. [59] 6 May 1930 Tony Buccola: 40 Los Angeles, California, U.S.