Apr 11, 1997,
to
Apr 26, 1998
Exhibition Note
Information about this exhibition is limited.
Featured Artists
As a child, Grace Thurston Arnold had become fascinated with the engraved illustrations in her grandfather’s books; as an adult, she made this medium her specialty.
Anni Albers, the most influential 20th-century textile designer, fearlessly experimented and blurred traditional boundaries between art and craft.
Frida Baranek is one of a generation of sculptors using industrial materials to comment on industrialization and the health of Brazil’s environment.
Sought-after portraitist Cecilia Beaux created paintings that were favorably compared with those of John Singer Sargent.
A member of New York's 14th Street School, Isabel Bishop is best known for her graphic art and urban subject matter.
Louise Bourgeois is considered one of the most inventive and influential sculptors of the 20th century for her use of unconventional materials and allusive psychological content.
Dolores (Lola) Álvarez Bravo was one of Mexico’s first professional women photographers, documenting daily life in Mexico and portraying an array of international leaders.
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.
Sculptor and printmaker Elizabeth Catlett used her art to advocate for social change in both the US and her adopted country of Mexico for almost three-quarters of a century.
Eulabee Dix was one of a group of women artists who were instrumental in the miniature revival at the turn of the 20th century.
As a staff photographer for Harper’s Bazaar, Louise Dahl-Wolfe introduced a witty naturalism to the staid conventions of fashion photography and helped pioneer the use of color film.
Though associated with the Abstract Expressionists, Elaine de Kooning created figurative works, including portraits, for much of her career.
Award-winning sculptor Dorothy Dehner produced abstract works in various mediums.
Helen Frankenthaler, a second-generation Abstract Expressionist painter, pioneered a stain technique that influenced Color Field painters like Morris Louis and Kenneth Noland.
Renowned French artist Élisabeth Louise Vigée-LeBrun was Marie Antoinette's favorite painter for a decade and was elected to art academies in 10 cities.
Hollis Sigler created psychologically complex paintings, drawings, and prints grounded in personal experience.
Alison Saar creates artworks that frequently transform found objects to reflect themes of cultural and social identity, history, and religion.
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith created work that addresses the myths of her ancestors in the context of current issues facing Native Americans.
Although she had no formal art training until age 36, Lilla Cabot Perry became a professional painter and a devotee of French Impressionism with a formidable body of work.
Lilly Martin Spencer’s still-life and portrait paintings were popular, but she became particularly well known for humorous domestic genre scenes.
Influenced by Impressionism, Céline Marie Tabary’s abstracted landscapes feature recognizable scenes of France, her home country, as well as images of New England and Old Georgetown.
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.
Fanny Sanín, one of Colombia’s second-generation abstract artists, turned to geometric abstraction in 1969 and never looked back.
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.
Washington, DC-native Georgia Mills Jessup demonstrated diverse talent as a painter, sculptor, ceramicist, muralist, and collage artist.
In a career spanning more than 70 years, Loïs Mailou Jones overcame racial and gender prejudices to become a successful and influential painter, designer, and educator.
