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Barbara Hepworth, Monolith-Empyrean, 1953, Kenwood House, London Harriet Hosmer, The Sleeping Faun (c. 1870), Cleveland Museum of Art Gabriela von Habsburg (born 1956), Europe Emmeline Halse (1853–1930), United Kingdom
Pages in category "Sculptures of women" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Action in Chains;
The absence of women from the canon of Western art has been a subject of inquiry and reconsideration since the early 1970s. Linda Nochlin's influential 1971 essay, "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?", examined the social and institutional barriers that blocked most women from entering artistic professions throughout history, prompted a new focus on women artists, their art and ...
The Famous Five - depicts the women's suffrage movement (Nellie McClung, Irene Parlby, Emily Murphy, Louise McKinney and Henrietta Muir Edwards); sculpted by Barbara Paterson; the monument is featured on the reverse of the current $50 banknote by various sculptors
Wäinö Aaltonen (1894–1966), Finland; Johannes Josephus Aarts (1871–1934), Netherlands; Magdalena Abakanowicz (1930–2017), Poland; Elfriede Abbe (1919–2012 ...
Sculptures of women in the Czech Republic (1 C, 5 P) D. Sculptures of women in Denmark (2 C, 1 P) E. Sculptures of women in Egypt (1 P) F. Sculptures of women in ...
The Venus de Milo or Aphrodite of Melos [b] is an ancient Greek marble sculpture that was created during the Hellenistic period. Its exact dating is uncertain, but the modern consensus places it in the 2nd century BC, perhaps between 160 and 110 BC.
The famous Venus of Willendorf was excavated in 1908 from a loess deposit in the Danube valley located in Austria. [ citation needed ] Since then, hundreds of similar figurines have been discovered from the Pyrenees Mountains to the plains of Siberia .