Aug 15, 1990,
to
Jun 9, 1991
Exhibition Note
Information about this exhibition is limited.
Featured Artists
Anni Albers, the most influential 20th-century textile designer, fearlessly experimented and blurred traditional boundaries between art and craft.
Alice Bailly was one of Switzerland’s most radical painters in the early decades of the 20th century. By 1906, Bailly had settled in Paris, where she became friends with many avant-gard
Sought-after portraitist Cecilia Beaux created paintings that were favorably compared with those of John Singer Sargent.
Rosa Bonheur, a 19th-century woman who achieved a successful career, served as a role model for future generations of women artists.
Elizabeth Jane Gardner Bouguereau was among the first wave of Americans who sought art training in Paris after the Civil War.
Jennie Augusta Brownscombe’s sentimental oil paintings celebrating rural family life and events from American history appealed to popular Victorian tastes in England and the United Stat
Through her paintings and sculptures, Leonora Carrington often explored notions of femininity in the whimsical, dreamlike style of Surrealism.
Recognized as one of the foremost 19th-century American painters and printmakers, Mary Cassatt is known for her prolific career and Impressionist artwork.
Renowned for her ability to communicate narrative in sculpture, Camille Claudel is also remembered for her personal and professional relationship with Auguste Rodin.
Award-winning sculptor Dorothy Dehner produced abstract works in various mediums.
Though associated with the Abstract Expressionists, Elaine de Kooning created figurative works, including portraits, for much of her career.
Renaissance painter Lavinia Fontana was commissioned to make not only portraits, the typical subject matter for women painters, but also religious and mythological themes, which sometim
Helen Frankenthaler, a second-generation Abstract Expressionist painter, pioneered a stain technique that influenced Color Field painters like Morris Louis and Kenneth Noland.
Eva Hesse’s use of unconventional materials, such as rubber, cord, translucent fiberglass, and latex, made her one of the most original and influential sculptors of the 1960s.
Ellen Day Hale was among the wave of American artists, both men and women, who traveled to Europe for training in the last quarter of the 19th century.
Washington, DC-native Georgia Mills Jessup demonstrated diverse talent as a painter, sculptor, ceramicist, muralist, and collage artist.
Mexican painter Frida Kahlo is known for creating striking, often shocking, self-portraits that reflected her political ideology, cultural identity, and her turbulent personal life.
Angelica Kauffman was a founding member of the Royal Academy of Arts and one of London’s most sought-after portraitists.
German-born Käthe Kollwitz used her prints and sculptures to confront social injustice and suffering.
Lee Krasner was one of the first generation Abstract Expressionist painters. Through six decades devoted to art, she continually explored innovative approaches to painting and collage.
Adélaïde Labille-Guiard was lauded for her skillfully crafted portraits by her early 20s, and she advanced to become a respected member of the French Royal Academy.
Painter Lotte Laserstein, who moved to Sweden when her career in Germany was thwarted by Nazism, gained prominence in the European art world for her realist portraiture style.
Throughout her career, Doris Lee sought to portray everyday, contemporary American life in a style that that was easily understandable to viewers.
Agnes Martin’s paintings balance rigid, geometric grids with subtle washes of color. Their formal severity seems to belie their intended spiritual quality.
Using her keen observational skills, Maria Sibylla Merian revolutionized both botany and zoology. From early childhood, she was interested in drawing insects and plants surrounding her.
An important member of Abstract Expressionism’s second generation, Joan Mitchell executed large, highly stylized abstractions of the landscape.
Berthe Morisot, associated with Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, and Degas, was included in seven of the eight Impressionist group exhibitions held between 1874 and 1886.
Artist Gabriele Münter, together with Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc, was a founding member of Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), an influential group of German Expressionists.
Paintings by Grandma Moses provide nostalgic glimpses of daily life in rural New York and Virginia. A self-taught artist, she did not begin painting until her late 70s.
In her portraits, Alice Neel sought to reveal the inner lives of her sitters, who included relatives, neighbors, and art-world celebrities.
Georgia O’Keeffe was an American artist whose drawings and paintings of abstract forms, flowers, bones, and the New Mexico landscape mark her as a significant modernist painter.
A pioneer in the field of still-life painting, Clara Peeters is the only Flemish woman known to have specialized in such pictures as early as the first decade of the 17th century.
London native Bridget Riley was a founding artist of the Op art movement, in which artists explored the perceptual processes of sight.
Contemporary artist Dorothea Rockburne, part of an influential 1960s circle of artists and performers, became known for austere, yet complex and referential works.
Rachel Ruysch was successful for nearly 70 years as a specialist in flower paintings.
Miriam Schapiro challenged the dichotomy of “high” art, denoting the works of known, predominantly male artists, and “decorative” art, a term then used to relegate women to anonymity.
According to written records, when she died at 27, the Italian artist Elisabetta Sirani had already produced 200 paintings, drawings, and etchings.
Lilly Martin Spencer’s still-life and portrait paintings were popular, but she became particularly well known for humorous domestic genre scenes.
Alma Woodsey Thomas developed her signature style of large, abstract paintings filled with dense, irregular patterns of bright colors in her 70s.
French painter Suzanne Valadon created powerful, unconventional, and sometimes controversial figure paintings, often of female nudes.
By the late 1950s, Maria Helena Vieira da Silva had become internationally known for her dense and complex compositions.
Bessie Potter Vonnoh enjoyed a long and successful career at a time when it was still unusual for an American woman to be a professional sculptor.
