Her Histories Stories

Slava Raškaj (1877 - 1906)

Slava Raškaj (1877 - 1906)

Slava was a Croatian watercolourist. Born deaf and mute, she learnt to lip read and only starting speaking much later in life, and then with difficulty.
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Sister Gertrude Morgan (1900 - 1980)

Sister Gertrude Morgan (1900 - 1980)

Sister Gertrude was a self-taught African-American Folk Art painter, musician, poet and preacher. She was born in Alabama but after feeling called by God, she moved to New Orleans at age 40.
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Rosa Corder (1853 - 1893)

Rosa Corder (1853 - 1893)

Rosa was a British Victorian artist and artist’s model. She specialised in painting animals and jockeys and is rumoured to have been persuaded by her lover, Charles Howell, to create forgeries of Rosetti’s paintings.
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Rolinda Sharples (1793 - 1838)

Rolinda Sharples (1793 - 1838)

Rolinda Sharples was a British painter who grew up surrounded by artists. She was part of the Bristol Group and was recognised as the first female to paint compositions of groups of people.
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Nina Hamnett (1890 - 1956)

Nina Hamnett (1890 - 1956)

Nina was a Welsh designer, book illustrator, artist and writer who was known for her sensitive portraits of her fellow writer and artist friends. She gained attention for the bohemian life she led and her contribution to modernism in the UK.
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Mira Schendel (1919 - 1988)

Mira Schendel (1919 - 1988)

Mira ‘was a Brazilian contemporary artist of the 20th century. She made numerous drawings on rice paper, but was also active as a painter, a poet, and a sculptor.’ -Wikipedia
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Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller (1877 - 1968)

Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller (1877 - 1968)

Meta was an African-American sculptor, painter and poet. She was born in Philadelphia to successful entrepreneurial parents, her mother a wig maker and beautician and her father, a barber and caterer.
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Meret Oppenheim (1913 - 1985)

Meret Oppenheim (1913 - 1985)

Meret Oppenheim (1913-1985) was a German-born Swiss Surrealist artist and photographer.
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Mary Beale (1633 - 1699)

Mary Beale (1633 - 1699)

Mary was an English Baroque-era portrait painter and the financial provider of her family. She wrote a book ‘Observations’, that was one of the first painting instructional books written by...
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Marie-Gabrielle Capet (1761 - 1818)

Marie-Gabrielle Capet (1761 - 1818)

Marie-Gabrielle was a French Neoclassical painter and student of Adélaïde Labille-Guiard. She came from humble beginnings but manage to gain the attention of Adélaïde in Paris. Only 4 women were...
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Katarzyna Kobro (1898 - 1951)

Katarzyna Kobro (1898 - 1951)

Katarzyna was a Polish avant-garde sculptor part of the Constructivist art movement. Her father was Latvian German and her mother, Russian. She grew up in Latvia and moved to Moscow with her...
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Hilma af Klint (1862 - 1944)

Hilma af Klint (1862 - 1944)

Hilma was a Swedish artist who is only now receiving recognition in pioneering abstract art around spiritual themes pre Kandinsky.
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