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Loïs Mailou Jones
(United States of America, 03/11/1905 - 09/06/1998) Street Vendors, Haiti 1978 (1978) Raised by working-class parents who emphasised the...
Bryleigh Pierce
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Lotte Laserstein
(Germany, 28/11/1898 - 21/01/1993) I and My Model (1929-30) Laserstein was a trailblazer in Germany’s Weimar Republic, she exhibited her...
Bryleigh Pierce
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Leonora Carrington
(England, 06/04/1917 - 25/05/2011) The Giantess (1950) Attracted to surrealism for its anti-establishment values that contrasted entirely...
Bryleigh Pierce
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Lee Krasner
(United States of America, 27/10/1908 - 19/06/1984) Combat (1965) A pioneer of the Abstract Expressionist movement, Krasner was renowned...
Bryleigh Pierce
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Lavinia Fontana
(Italy, 24/08/1552 - 11/08/1614) Self-Portrait at the Clavichord with a Servant (1577) A pioneering Italian painter of the late...
Bryleigh Pierce
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Kay Sage
(United States of America, 25/06/1898 - 08/01/1963) Small Portrait (1950) Born in New York to a wealthy family, Sage travelled...
Bryleigh Pierce
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Judit Reigl
(Hungary, 01/05/1923 - 06/08/2020) Guano (1957) Celebrated for forging a unique artistic path between Surrealism and lyrical abstraction,...
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Joanna Mary Boyce
(England, 07/12/1831 - 15/07/1861) Elgiva (1855) Renowned for her genre works and historical portraits and sketches, Boyce’s career,...
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Joan Mitchell
(United States of America, 12/02/1925 - 30/10/1992) George Went Swimming at Barnes Hole, but It Got Too Cold (1957) Born in Chicago to a...
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Jenny Saville
(England, 05/07/1970 - ) Reverse (2002-03) Best known for her female portraits, Saville explores gender, sexuality and violence through...
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Ithell Colquhoun
(England, 09/10/1906 - 11/04/1988) Alcove II (1948) As an occult artist, writer, and theorist, Colquhoun’s career spanned seven decades...
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Helene Schjerfbeck
(Finland, 10/07/1862 - 23/01/1946) Self-Portrait, Black Background (1915) One of Finland’s most well-known artists, Schjerfbeck’s talent...
Bryleigh Pierce
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Gwen John
(Wales, 22/06/1876 - 18/09/1939) Self-Portrait (c.1900) Celebrated for her subtle, introspective portraits and domestic interiors, John’s...
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Ghada Amer
(Egypt, 22/05/1963 - ) Colour Misbehavior (2009) Born in Cairo in 1963, Amer and her family relocated to France when she was 11 years...
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Georgia O'Keeffe
(United States of America, 15/11/1887 - 06/03/1986) White Iris (1930) Nicknamed the ‘Mother of American Modernism’, O’Keeffe was raised...
Bryleigh Pierce
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Gabriele Münter
(Germany, 19/02/1877 - 19/05/1962) Self-Portrait in Front of an Easel (c.1908-09) Often starting and finishing her paintings in just one...
Bryleigh Pierce
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Frida Kahlo
(Mexico, 06/07/1907 - 13/07/1954) Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird (1940) Known for her vivid, emotionally charged...
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Frances Hodgkins
(New Zealand, 28/04/1869 - 13/05/1947) Loveday and Ann: Two Women with a Basket of Flowers (1915) Arguably New Zealand’s leading...
Bryleigh Pierce
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Faith Ringgold
(United States of America, 08/10/1930 - 13/04/2020) For the Women's House (1971) Growing up surrounded by the thriving Harlem Renaissance...
Bryleigh Pierce
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Evelyn de Morgan
(England, 30/08/1855 - 02/05/1919) Medea (1889) As the daughter of an upper-class, aristocratic family born in the middle of the 19th...
Bryleigh Pierce
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