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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.
Sarah Anne Bright (1793–1866) produces what is possibly the earliest surviving photographic image taken by a woman. [1]Constance Fox Talbot (1811–1880), wife of the inventor Henry Fox Talbot, experiments with the process of photography, possibly becoming the first woman to take a photograph.
Historically, portrait paintings have primarily memorialized the rich and powerful. Over time, however, it became more common for middle-class patrons to commission portraits of their families and colleagues. Today, portrait paintings are still commissioned by governments, corporations, groups, clubs, and individuals.
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 ...
A painting by titled "Portrait of Girl" by Dutch painter Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn sold for $1.4 at the Thomaston Place Auction Galleries in Thomaston, Maine on August 24, 2024.
Self‐Portrait as a Drowned Man [b] 18 October 1840 Hippolyte Bayard: Paris, France [6] Possibly the earliest known staged photograph, created in protest to the French government's apparent neglect of the invention of his photographic process. [7] [8] [s 1] The Haystack: 1844 [c] William Henry Fox Talbot Lacock, England, United Kingdom [11]
An iconic Gibson Girl portrait by its creator, Charles Dana Gibson, circa 1891 The Gibson Girl was the personification of the feminine ideal of physical attractiveness as portrayed by the pen-and-ink illustrations of artist Charles Dana Gibson during a 20-year period that spanned the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the United States. [1]