Last weekend I picked up a copy of “Originals: American Women Artists” by Eleanor Munro at a local library book sale. I flipped through most of the book and was astonished to realize: I didn’t know as much about American artists – especially WOMEN American artists – as I thought I had… and I have spent the past 5+ years educating myself with as many artists as I could.
There are 41 artists named in the index and of those artists I could only identify 12 of them with any confidence:
| Mary Cassatt* | Miriam Schapiro* |
| Georgia O’Keeffe* | June Wayne |
| Hedda Sterne* | Mary Frank |
| Sari Dienes | Elise Asher |
| Lee Krasner* | Sheila de Bretteville |
| Alice Neel | Anne Truitt* |
| Louise Nevelson* | Lenore Tawney |
| Isabel Bishop | Sylvia Stone |
| Louise Bourgeois* | Beverly Pepper |
| Helen Lundeberg | Betye Saar |
| Jeanne Reynal | Sheila Hicks |
| Alma W Thomas | Barbara Chase-Riboud |
| Grace Hartigan* | Lee Bontecou |
| Jane Freilicher | Jennifer Bartlett |
| Fay Lanser | Faith Ringgold* |
| Helen Frankenthaler* | Eleanor Antin |
| Lila Katzen | Jackie Winsor |
| Joan Mitchell* | Michelle Stuart |
| Elaine de Kooning* | Connie Zehr |
| Nell Blaine | Betty Klavun |
| Patricia Johanson |
This got me thinking… ok, obsessing… about this for the past week: is there definitive list of women artists that I can work from to round out my education? And I wasn’t disappointed: between Wikipedia and a couple of online lists, including the 30 Most Influential Women Artists Alive Today, I was able to compile one extensive spreadsheet that has been expanded to include as many women artists, regardless of nationality, that I was able to find.
NOTE: I do have to mention: being a “woman” artist myself, I do have an issue as being identified as such – the goal of any artist is to simply be identified as an Artist – regardless of gender. However, I do have to admit that most people when asked to name an artist will likely name a “male” artist more so then a “woman” artist… and I aim to change that.
So, based on the wealth of artist names I have been able to compile, I thought that it would be a good idea to launch an Artist of the Month on my FaceBook page (www.facebook.com/White-Rooster-Studios) to highlight these amazing women.
Please join me on this journey to learn more about these amazing women: June will be the inaugural month and will highlight Mary Cassatt.
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