Women in Art

and Women Artists

Highlighting the role of women in art and women artists from prehistory to the present moment

The Ancient World

c. 3000 BCE–500 CE

Funeral banner of Lady Dai (Xin Zhui), 2nd century BCE, silk, 205 x 92 x 47.7 cm, found in Tomb 1 at Mawangdui, Changsha, Hunan Province. Hunan Provincial Museum, Changsha.

The Medieval World

c. 500–1500 CE

The Early Modern Period

c. 1500–1800 CE
Miguel Cabrera, Portrait of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, c. 1750, oil on canvas. Museo Nacional de Historia, Castillo de Chapultepec, Mexico
Francis Delaram, Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1618, engraving, published in Baziliwlogia: A Booke of Kings (London, 1618). Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.
a woman looks at us wearing a floral crown and veil

The Modern Era

c. 1800–present

La Casa Azul, Coyoacán, Mexico City. Now, the Museo Frida Kahlo.
Leonora Carrington, Self-Portrait, c. 1937–38, oil on canvas, 25 9/16 × 32 in. (65 × 81.3 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
An abstract painting in warm colors like yellow that is Olga Albizu's 900-50-80
A smiling sun appears next to a blue mountain with running red lava, which is a print by Yayoi Kusama called Where the Universe and Human Life Are

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