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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

Uninvited: Canadian Women Artists In The Modern Moment 

Contemporary women artists: N8354 .C66 1999 (SL Reference Collection)

Dictionary of women artists: N8354 .D53 1997 2 vols. (SL Reference Collection)

North American women artists of the twentieth century: N6503 .N67 1995 (SL Reference Collection)

Canadian Women Artists

Canadian Women Artists History Initiative

 Based in the Department of Art History at Concordia University  The Artist database brings together literature about women artists who worked in Canada and who were born before 1925.
 
Women Artists in Canada: An introduction to contemporary native artists in Canada.
 

The CanadianOnlne Art Book Project: many biographies of women artists

  • Agnes Martin, 1912-2004
  • Helen McNicoll
  • Molly Lamb Bobak, 1920-2014
  • Emily Carr, 1871-1945
  • Annie Pootoogook, 1969-2016
  • Kathleen Daly, 1898–1994
  • Maud Lewis, 1903-1970
  • Doris McCarthy, 1910-2010
  • Mary Pratt
  • Sophie Pemberton
  • Marion Nicoll, 1879-1915
  • Suzy Lake, 1947-
  • Agnes Martin, 1912-2004
  • Mary Hiester Reid, 1854-1921
  • Hannah Maynard, 1834-1918
  • Shuvinai Ashoona, 1961-
  • Paraskeva Clark, 1898-1986
  • Pitseolak Ashoona, 1904-1983
  • Prudence Heward, 1896-1947
  • Betty Goodwin, 1923-2008
  • Joyce Wieland, 1930-1998
  • Jin-me Yoon, 1960-
  • Francoise Sullivan, 1923-
  • Margaret Watkins, 1884-1969
  • Mary Bell Eastlake
  • Kathleen Munn
  • Daphne Odjig, 1919-2016
  • Marcelle Ferron, 1924-2001
  • Prudence Heward, 1896-1947