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Florence Owens Thompson (born Florence Leona Christie; September 1, 1903 – September 16, 1983) was an American woman who was the subject of Dorothea Lange's photograph Migrant Mother (1936), considered an iconic image of the Great Depression. The Library of Congress titled the image: "Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children.
Joan Embery and Duane Pillsbury (1929–2020) were married almost 42 years, until his death at age 91. Embery and Pillsbury met when she was 30 and he was 50 through the matchmaking efforts of one of Pillsbury's two daughters, who shared with Embery a mutual interest as competitive female equestrians.
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.
In the 1930s, President Franklin D. Roosevelt got the country out of the Great Depression by creating jobs under the Works Progress Administration. This included positions in the performing arts.
Belle Jennings Benchley (August 28, 1882 – December 17, 1973 [1]), known as “The Zoo Lady,” was the director of the San Diego Zoo from 1927 to 1953, guiding its expansion from a small collection of animals to an innovative, world-class zoo.
Kay Lahusen (1930–2021), first openly gay photojournalist of the gay rights movement; Wendy Sue Lamm (born 1964), photojournalist noted for her images of Palestine; Dorothea Lange (1895–1965), documentary photographer and photojournalist, covered the Great Depression; Gillian Laub (born 1975) Alma Lavenson (1897–1989), documented ...
In the late 1800s and early 1900s, a new breed of women started to emerge from the depths of circus tents around the world: the strong-woman. These women quickly drew large crowds of circus lovers ...
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 ...