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Maija Dragūne (19 March 1945) is a Latvian graphic artist. She works in graphic art and book illustration , as well as paints watercolours. [ 1 ] Maija Dragūne made a great contribution to the illustration of Latvian books, working on the editions of notable authors: Ojārs Vācietis , Jānis Baltvilks, Vitauts Ļūdēns.
Maija Peeples-Bright (née Maija Gegeris; born 1942) [1] [2] is a Latvian-born American and Canadian painter, ceramist, and arts educator. She is known as one of the pioneers of the Funk art movement in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1960s. [3] Maija Peeples-Bright has gone by the names Maija Zack, Maija Woof, Maija Bright, and Maija Peeples.
Maija (Majlis) Grotell (August 19, 1899 — December 6, 1973) was an influential Finnish-American ceramic artist and educator. [1] She is often described as the "Mother of American Ceramics." [ 2 ]
Maija Sofia Isola (15 March 1927 – 3 March 2001) was a Finnish designer of printed textiles, and the creator of over 500 patterns, including Unikko ("Poppy"). The bold, colourful prints she created as the head designer of Marimekko made the Finnish company famous in the 1960s. She also had a successful career as a visual artist. [2]
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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.
Spring 2015: Model showing a Marimekko dress using Maija Isola's 1964 'Unikko' (Poppy) print. A Marimekko store in Kamppi, Helsinki. Marimekko was founded in 1951 by Viljo and Armi Ratia, after the Viljo's oil-cloth factory project failed and was converted to a garment plant. Armi asked some artist friends to apply their graphic designs to ...
Double Portrait, Halonen and his wife Maija, 1895 Self-Portrait, 1906 Woman in a Red Dress, 1911, depicting his daughter Anni. In 1895, Pekka Halonen married a young music student, Maija Mäkinen. They had eight children: four sons and four daughters. Halonen died in Tuusula on 1 December 1933. He was buried at the Tuusula Church in Tuusula. [5 ...