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Women Artists in Revolution (WAR) was a New York City-based collective of American women artists and activists that formed in 1969. [1] They seceded from the male-dominated Art Workers' Coalition (AWC), prompted by the Whitney Museum of American Art's 1969 Annual (later the Whitney Biennial), which included only eight women out of the 143 featured artists shown.
The first international art exhibition made up entirely of art created by professional female artists. Women Artists: 1550–1950 was the first international exhibition of art by female artists. The exhibition opened on December 21, 1976, [ 1 ] at a time when the Feminist Art Movement was gaining in support and momentum.
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 ...
Women, in particular, were more likely to be absent from work than men, with childcare and running the household the probable reasons, according to the art historian Brian Foss. [5] With a shortage in the number of women working in the factories, the Ministry of Production pushed for the war artists to depict production workers. [7]
After the war, Livermore devoted herself to the promotion of women's suffrage (along with Lucy Stone and Julia Ward Howe) and the temperance movement. In 1868, she co-founded the Chicago Sorosis Club with Myra Bradwell and Kate Doggett. [16] This was the first women's group in Chicago to advocate for woman suffrage.
One of the loveliest of these is “Raspberry,” a portrait of a waif-like young woman that is owned by the Columbus Museum of Art. Marie Laurencin's "Raspberry" oil on canvas painting.
The Feminist Studio Workshop was founded in Los Angeles in 1973 by Judy Chicago, Arlene Raven, and Sheila Levrant de Bretteville as a two-year feminist art program. Women from the program were instrumental in finding and creating the Woman's Building, the first independent center to showcase women's art and culture. Galleries existed there for ...
The Art Loss Register is a commercial computerized international database which captures information about lost and stolen art, antiques and collectables. It is operated by a commercial company based in London. In the U.S., the FBI maintains the National Stolen Art File, "a database of stolen art and cultural property. Stolen objects are ...