1905 / Print on paper / 12”x10” / Private collection
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1907 / Oil on canvas / 21 1/4”x25 1/2” / The State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
August 27, 1927, The Saturday Evening Post / Saturday Evening Post Society
Ruth Bernhard (1905-2006)
German-born American photographer shot almost exclusively in black-and-white
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Bernhard
Doll’s Head / 1936 / Photographic print / 7 11/16”x 9 9/16”(image)
Richard Bruce Nugent (1906-1987)
Writer, artist, and illustrator associated with the Harlem Renaissance
https://ubuntubiographyproject.com/2017/07/01/richard-bruce-nugent/
Sonia Delaunay (1885-1979), The first living female artist to have a retrospective exhibition at the Louvre
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/sonia-delaunay-993
Dubonnet / 1914 / Watercolour on canvas / 24”x30”
Amelia Pelaez (1897-1968)
Participant in the vanguardia and the classical phases of Cuban modernism
https://sophia.smith.edu/global-modern-women-artists/amelia-palaez/biography/
Marañones (Cashews) / 1939-1940 / Oil on canvas / 24 3/8”x30 1/2”
Evelyn Beatrice Longman Batchelder (1874-1954)
First woman sculptor to be elected a full member of the National Academy of Design
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Beatrice_Longman
Industry (aka The Craftsman) / 1931 / Bronze / A.I. Prince Technical HS, Hartford, CT
Violet Oakley (1874-1961)
First American woman to receive a public mural commission
https://hyperallergic.com/405626/a-grand-vision-violet-oakley-and-the-american-renaissance-woodmere-museum-2017/
Beatrix Potter (1866-1943), English writer, illustrator, natural scientist, and conservationist
https://beatrixpottersociety.org.uk/about-beatrix/
Flammulina Velutipes, or Winter Mushrooms / 1892 / Watercolor
Elizabeth Shippen Green (1871-1954)
American illustrator; first female staff member of Harper’s Weekly
https://americanillustration.org/project/elizabeth-shippen-green/
The Journey / Harper’s Monthly Magazine, December 1903 / Oil on canvas / 40”x28”
Clarence Matthew “Matt” Baker (1921-1959)
Credited as the first successful African-American comic book artist
http://cbldf.org/2016/02/profiles-in-black-cartooning-matt-baker/
Betye Saar (Born 1926)
American-American artist known for assemblages and installations
https://hammer.ucla.edu/now-dig-this/artists/betye-saar/
https://americanart.si.edu/blog/eye-level/2010/02/896/wishing-winter
Loïs Mailou Jones (1905-1998)
African-American painter, educator, and champion of international black artists
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lois-Mailou-Jones
Jeanne, Martiniquaise / 1938 / Oil on canvas / 24”x28 1/2”
Elmer Simms Campbell (1906-1971)
First African-American illustrator to break the color line in mass-market publications
https://www.lambiek.net/artists/s/simms_campbell_e.htm
Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859-1937), First African-American painter to gain international acclaim
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henry-Ossawa-Tanner
The Annunciation / 1898 / Oil on canvas / 57”x71 1/4”
Laura Wheeler Waring (1877-1948)
African-American artist, illustrator, and educator
http://tmlarts.com/laura-wheeler-waring/
Portrait of Alma Thomas / c.1945 / Oil on canvas / 30”x25 1/8”
The Misty Miss Christy 