c.1623 / Oil on canvas / 15”x11 3/4” / Galleria Borghese, Rome
c.1630 / Oil on canvas / 29 3/8”x25 5/8” / National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
1556 / Oil on canvas / 26”x22 3/8”
Łańcut Castle, Poland
Self-Portrait at the Keyboard1577 / Oil on canvas / 10 5/8”x9 3/8”
Accademia di San Luca, Rome
Liebe [Love] / 1931 / Drawing, collage / 8.5”x8.25” / National Gallery of Australia
Hannah Höch was a German Dada artist. She is best known for her work of the Weimar period, when she was one of the originators of photomontage. FROM monoskop.org
While she may have been remembered by her bombastic Dada colleagues for her “sandwiches, beer and coffee”, her lifetime of artistic practice reveals a vital and critical woman who could magically collide disparate reproductions of needlepoint patterns, political figures, film stars, animal life and non-Western artifacts into explorations of androgyny, Aryan activity, gender roles, imperialism, race and lesbianism. FROM frieze.com
The Coquette I (1923-1925)
Hoch began the Love series as early as 1923, and worked on it intermittently through about 1931. Each of the six or seven works in this series depict sexuality in some way. My understanding is that the following pieces were in this series:
Love in the Bush (1925)
Peasant Wedding Couple (1931)
Love (1926)
Love (1931)
The Coquette I (1923-1925)
The Coquette II (c.1925)
The Large Step (1931)
Love (1926)
“Peace Halting the Ruthlessness of War”1917 / Bronze cast sculpture / 14”x16 3/4”x9”/ Private collection
Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller (June 9, 1877-March 18, 1968) was…a multi-talented artist who wrote poetry, painted, and sculpted but was most noted for her sculpture. Warrick was a protegé of Auguste Rodin…Warrick is considered a forerunner of the Harlem Renaissance. ~FROM Wikipedia
In May, 1917, Meta Warrick Fuller took second prize in a
competition under the auspices of the Massachusetts Branch of the Woman’s Peace Party, her subject being “Peace Halting the Ruthlessness of War.” War is personified as on a mighty steed and trampling to death numberless human beings. In one hand he holds a spear on which he has transfixed the head of one of his victims. ~FROM Documenting the American South
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Take-Off: Interior of a Bomber Aircraft / c.1943 / Oil on canvas / 72”x60” / Imperial War Museums, UK
A talented artist, Laura entered Nottingham School of Art when she was fourteen. While there she met Harold Knight and was deeply influenced by his work…Laura married Knight in June, 1903. Knight established herself as the most important woman artist in Britain and in 1936 became the first woman to be elected to the Royal Academy since 1760. During the Second World War Laura became an official war artist. She was also sent to cover the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials.
FROM http://spartacus-educational.com/ARTknight.htm
Toba Khedoori (Born 1964), Australian-born American artist known for detailed renderings on wall-size sheets of wax-treated paper https://www.davidzwirner.com/artists/toba-khedoori/biography
Untitled (rooms) / 2001 / Oil and wax with graphite on two sheets of paper / 144”x144”
Kara Walker (Born 1969)
African-American contemporary painter, silhouettist, printmaker, installation artist, and filmmaker
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Kara-Walker
The Emancipation Approximation (Scene #18) / 1999-2000 / Screenprint / 44”x33 15/16”
Chakaia Booker (Born 1953)
African-American sculptor best known for her work using tires as a medium
https://nmwa.org/explore/artist-profiles/chakaia-booker
Urban Butterfly / 2001 / Rubber tires / 57”x53”
Kiki Smith (Born 1954)
German-born American artist’s work includes sculpture, printmaking, photography, drawing, and textiles
https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/artist/kiki-smith
Lilith / 1994 / Bronze with glass eyes / 31 1/2”x27”x17 1/2”
Judy Chicago (Born 1939)
American feminist artist, art educator, and writer known for large collaborative art installations
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/chicago-judy
Carrie Mae Weems (Born 1953)
African-American photographer, performance artist, activist, filmmaker, and videographer
http://carriemaeweems.net/bio.html
Untitled (Kitchen Table Series) / 1990 / Gelatin silver print / 27 1/4”x27”
Bridget Riley CH CBE (Born 1931)
British painter and designer central to the Op art movement of the 1960s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridget_Riley
Zephyr / 1976 / Acrylic on linen / 88”x42”
Eva Hesse (1936-1970)
German-born American sculptor who brought organic, emotional, and kinetic aspects to minimalism
https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/artist/eva-hesse
Untitled (Rope Piece) / 1969-70 / Latex, rope, string, and wire / Dimensions variable
Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011), American pivotal in the transition from Abstract Expressionism to Color Field painting http://www.frankenthalerfoundation.org/helen/biography
Nature Abhors a Vacuum / 1973 / Acrylic on canvas / 103 1/2”x112 1/2”
Yayoi Kusama (Born 1929), Japanese self-described “obsessional artist” employs painting, sculpture, performance art, and installation https://www.britannica.com/biography/Yayoi-Kusama
The Misty Miss Christy 