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In the 1970s a debate was ignited by Linda Nochlin’s essay entitled Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? This was followed by a raft of exhibitions that sought to redirect the focus on female artists. But only a select few names appear in standard art histories.
So, ultcult seeks here to remedy this by featuring the works of 44 female artists, sculptors …
  Anni Albers (1899-1984) German-American, Bauhaus |   Wall Hanging 1926 |
 Still Life On Corner of A Mantlepiece 1914 |   Vanessa Bell (1879-1961) English, Post-Impressionism/Arts & Crafts/ Bloomsbury Group |
 Rosa Bonheur (1822-1899) French, Romanticism/Realism |   The Horse Fair 1852-1855 |
  Maman 1999 |   Louise Bourgeois (1911-2020) French-American, Sculpture Art/Installation Art |
  Olga Boznańska (1865-1940) Polish, Young Poland |  Self-portrait with folded hands 1893 |
  Expansion 2012 |   Paige Bradley (1974- ) American, Sculpture Art |
  Cecily Brown (1969- ) English-American, Abstract Art |   1000 Thread Count 2004 |
  Smoke Spheres 2-4 2006-2007 |   Angela Bulloch (1966- ) Canadian English, Young British Artist |
  Dora Carrington 1893-1932 English, Bloomsbury Group |   Portrait of Lytton Strachey 1917 |
  Self Portrait (Inn of the Dawn Horse) 1937-1938 |  Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) Anglo-Mexican, Surrealism |
  Mary Cassatt (1844-1926) American, Japonism/Impressionism/ Post-Impressionism |   The Child’s Bath 1893 |
  Venice 1918 |   Aleksandra Ekster (Алекса́ндра Алекса́ндровна Эксте́р) (1882-1949) Russian-Ukranian |
  Tracey Emin (1963- ) English, Conceptual Art/Installation Art/ Young British Artist |   My Bed 1998 |
  Banana Split Sundae 1980 |   Audrey Flack (1931- ) American, Abstract Expressionism/Pop Art/ Photo Realism |
  Lavinia Fontana (1552-1614) Italian, Mannerism/Bolognese School |   Minerva Dressing, 1613 |
  Preserve ‘beauty’ 1991-2003 |   Anya Gallaccio (1963- ) English, Young British Artist |
  Artemisia Gentileschi (self-portrait) (1593-1653) Italian, Baroque |   Judith Slaying Holofernes 1612-1613 |
  The Cyclist 1913 |   Natalia Goncharova (1881-1962) Russian, Avant-garde/Der Blaue Reiter |
  Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975) English, Sculpture Art |   Monolith (Empyrean) 1953 |
 Le Cavalier 1996 |   Danielle Jacqui French, Art Brut-Outsider Art |
  Joan Jonas (1936- ) American, Performance Artist, Video Art |   Mirage 1970s |
  Self-Portrait in a Velvet Dress 1925 |   Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) Mexican, Naïve Art/Primitivism/Surrealism |
  Susan Kare (1954- ) American, Artist and Graphic Designer |   Apple Macintosh Fonts 1982 |
  Portrait of David Garrick 1764 |   Angelica Kauffman (1741-1807) Swiss, Rococo/Neoclassicism |
  Lee Krasner (1908-1984) American, Abstract Art/ Abstract Expressionism |   Composition, 1943 1943 |
  Marie Antoinette in a Court Dress 1778 |   Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (self-portrait with straw hat) (1755-1842) French, Rococo |
  Tamara de Lempicka (1898-1980) Polish, Art Deco |   Young Lady with Gloves 1930 |
  Three Black Cats 1955 |   Maud Lewis (1903-1970) Canadian, Abstract Art/Modern Art |
  Séraphine Louis (1864-1932) French, Naïve Art/Primitivism/ Art Brut-Outsider Art |   The Tree of Life 1928 |
  With my Back to the World 1997 |   Agnes Martin (1912-2004) Canadian-American, Minimalism/Abstract Art |
  Joan Mitchell (1925-1992) American, Abstract Art/ Abstract Expressionism/Action-Kinetic |   Straw 1960 |
  The Cradle 1872 |   Berthe Morisot (1841-1895) French, Impressionism |
  Louise Nevelson (1899-1988) American, Abstract Expressionism/Sculpture Art |   Atmosphere and Environment XII 1970-1973 |
  Cow’s Skull: Red, White and Blue 1931 |   Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986) American, Abstract Art |
  Salomé Perignan (1977- ) French, Art Brut-Outsider Art |   Patience 2018 |
  Untitled (grey and brown) 1991 |   Fiona Rae (1970- ) Hong Kongese/English, Young British Artist |
  Dame Maria Paula Figueiroa Rego (1935-2022) Portuguese, Expressionism/ Abstract Expressionism |   The Family 1988 |
  Blaze 1 1964 |   Bridget Riley (1931- ) English, Op Art |
  Ángeles Santos Torroella (self-portrait) (1911-2013) Spanish (Catalan), Surrealism |   A world 1929 |
  Untitled – two girls sculpture Year? |   Judith Scott (1943-2005) American, Art Brut-Outsider Art |
  Maria Helena Vieira da Silva (self-portrait) (1908-1992) Portuguese, Abstract Art |   Theatre de Gerard Philipe 1975 |
  Return Home 1909 |   Marianne von Werefkin (self-portrait 1910) (1860-1938) Russian-German-Swiss, Expressionism/ Der Blaue Reiter |
  Dame Rachel Whiteread (1963- ) English, Young British Artist |   Ghost 1990 |
  Bread (aka Grain) 1949 |   Tatiana Yablonskaya (Self-portrait 1945) (1917-2005) Ukranian, Propaganda-Socialist Realism/ Social Realism |
Just in case you were wondering who the artists were that we featured in the nine-person header block.
up at the top of this page, they are as follows:
| Vanessa Bell | Georgia O’Keeffe | Salomé Perignan |
| Olga Boznańska | Angela Bulloch | Dora Carrington |
| Paige Bradley | Tracey Emin | Cecily Brown |
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