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Women Artists

Brushed aside: The untold story of women in art. How many female artists can you name? Artemisia Gentileschi, Frida Kahlo, Georgia O'Keeffe? Here's a 360-degree look at the role women have played in art history, including the influence and empowerment of  women through art beyond those who have taken up a brush or a chisel.

A revolution on canvas : the rise of women artists in London and Paris, 1760-1830. Argues that women artists professionalized in unprecedented numbers during the Revolutionary era, engaging with the cultural and intellectual currents of their societies and earning substantial incomes from their work despite the obstacles they encountered.

Making her mark : a history of women artists in Europe, 1400-1800 (2023)

Creative women of the "lost generation": women in the arts in the wake of the Great War (2024)

Women painting women. Exhibition catalog

The ladies of art : stories of  women in the 16th and 17th centuries (2021)

Women artists: recognition and reappraisal from the early Middle Ages to the twentieth century

Canadian Women Artists

Agnes Martin (1912-2004) painter

Emily Carr, 1871-1945

Annie Pootoogook, 1969-2016

Kathleen Daly (1898–1994)  painter

Maud Lewis, 1903-1970

Mary Bell Eastlake

Daphne Odjig, 1919-2016

Marcelle Ferron, 1924-2001

Prudence Heward, 1896-1947

Women Artists Databases

Canadian Women Artists History Initative: Based in the Department of Art History at Concordia University, CWAHI circulates scholarly research into women’s contributions to the cultural and material history of Canada with a focus prior to 1967.