Artemisia Gentileschi
Italian · 1593-1656
The Women Behind the Art
Her hand. Her eye. Her collection.
The women who made the work, the women who made it possible, the women in the pictures and the women who were the reason. Researched and cited like every record here.
Today 3 of the 99 artists in this archive are women. That is the history of who was collected and recorded, and it is what this section is here to change: the researchers now add women artists first.
She made it
The women who made the work: painters, sculptors, photographers, workshop heads, and the artists the market forgot.
Dorothea Lange
American · 1895-1965
Julia Margaret Cameron
1815-1879
She made it possible
The collectors, dealers, patrons and widows without whom a work or a career would not exist.
Next in research: Jo van Gogh-Bonger, who made Van Gogh known, and the dealer Berthe Weill.
Who is she?
The woman in the picture: who she was, why she was painted, and what became of her.
Next in research: Lisa Gherardini, Wally Neuzil, and the women in the portraits this archive holds.
Her as the reason
The woman behind a work or a whole period of it: the muse, the model, the partner, the motive.
Next in research: Hortense Fiquet, Jeanne-Claude, Dora Maar.