Name five women artists? How can we name just five? In a
fast overview there are (in alphabetical order) Peggy Bacon, Isabel Bishop,
Elizabeth Catlett, Minna Citron, Dorothy Dehner, Sue Fuller, Katharine
Gallagher, Blanche Grambs, Riva Helfond, Fannie Hillsmith, Dorothy Browdy
Kushner, Alice Trumbull Mason, Claire Mahl Moore, Jean Morrison Becker, Betty
Waldo Parish, Doris Rosenthal, Anne Ryan, Katherine Schmidt, Judith Shahn, Mary
Sinclair, Helen A. Strojny, and Marguerite Zorach.
So we’ve limited ourselves to showing work by five women
artists:
Fannie
Hillsmith
The Attic (also titled Dark Interior), 1952
Mixed media on canvas
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Anne Ryan
The Wine Glass, 1945, black line woodcut
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Peggy
Bacon
All Alone, 1951, etching
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