Women Artists

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Sybil Andrews. Woodcut.

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Sophie Taeuber-Arp (born "Sophie-Henriette Taeuber") (French, born Switzerland, 1889-1943), Head, c. 1918 - 1919, painted wood, 34 x 20 x 20 cm, Georges Pompidou Center, Paris

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Ilona Granet. "Princess Diana Faces the Land Mine Issue." 1998. Porcelain (~20-in. height).

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Tamara de Lempicka. An image search will give you dozens of her paintings.

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Anita Ree, German expresionist painter

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The above is a self-portrait, she did several very impressive ones. She was born in 1885 and took her own life in 1933 as a protest agianst the upcoming Nazi regime, who had just painted over some grand fresco she had done.

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A discussion of Jackie McLean's ethnicity (in "Miscellaneous Music") reminded me of

Adrian Piper:

Adrian Piper, My Calling Card #1, 1986.

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Lilian Miller, whose woodblock print I began this thread with, was born in Japan in 1895, the daughter of the American Counsel. She began formal art lessons from Japanese masters at a young age, came to the US for college, but afterwards returned to Japan and then followed her family to Korea. By the mid-1930s mounting medical problems forced her to leave the East for Hawaii, where she died in 1943. She was unusual among Japanese printmakers in not only designing her prints, but also in cutting and printing the blocks.

This print dates from the late 1920s.

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Another American woman who was drawn to the East was Bertha Lum (1867-1954). This blockprint, "Theatre", dates from 1907.

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Francoise Gilot. Oceanic Woman. 1986