This is a Commitment- Jess Hebertson

Here are the artists I have been discovering this month! It was a lot easier than I thought it would be, and really interesting to read a little bit about the contributions these artists made and the struggles they had to face. I have to admit, I was at least somewhat familiar with a handful of these (like Georgia O’keeffe and Kara Walker), but I was so flabbergasted that they are not included at all in the art history survey here that I included them out of sheer spite

If you want, and I highly suggest you should, you should expand your idea of who can be and is an artist with this list I’ve compiled over the month. In order with a link to an interesting article, podcast or video about each artist:

1-Edmonia Lewis (sculptor, 1844-1907) https://artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/edmonia-lewis-smithsonian-american-art-museum/gQJi3NKm3VagLg?hl=en

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hThYHvYAJh0 

2-Georgia O'keeffe (painter, sculptor, photographer, 1887-1986)

https://collections.okeeffemuseum.org/object/#subquery=gok

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgB2IKUCXb0&t=574s 

3-Plautilla Nelli (painter and nun, 1524-1588)

https://mymodernmet.com/sister-plautilla-nelli-last-supper/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9OrJ0o9O9A 

4-Kara Walker (conceptual and multimedia artist, 1969-present)

http://www.karawalkerstudio.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhByMffG9IA 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRkP5rcXtys 

5-Hilma af Klint (painter, 1892-1944)

https://www.hilmaafklint.se/en/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHdud9km7bQ 

6-Suzane Valadon (painter, 1865-1938)

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/suzanne-valadon-nudes-art-history/index.html

7-Shirin Neshat (photographer and filmmaker, 1957-present)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YS3gGpnPe8

http://www.artnet.com/artists/shirin-neshat/ 

8-Marie-Gabrielle Capet (painter, 1761-1818)

http://www.artnet.com/artists/marie-gabrielle-capet/

https://www.journal18.org/issue8/gabrielle-capets-collective-self-portrait-women-and-artistic-legacy-in-post-revolutionary-france/ 

9- Louise Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun (painter, 1755-1842)

https://artsandculture.google.com/story/the-scandalous-portraits-of-%C3%A9lisabeth-louise-vig%C3%A9e-le-brun/ZAICJhgvKCCoLw

https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/international-womens-day-elisabeth-louise-vigee-le-brun 

10-Barbara Kruger (conceptual artist and graphic designer, 1945-present)

https://art21.org/artist/barbara-kruger/

http://www.artnet.com/artists/barbara-kruger/ 

11-Catharina van Hemessen (painter, 1528-1588)

https://www.theartpostblog.com/en/catharina-van-hemessen-life-and-works/ 

https://artuk.org/discover/artists/van-hemessen-catharina-1528after-1587

12-Mary Beale (painter, 1595-1654)

https://arthistoryproject.com/artists/mary-beale/

https://www.wikiart.org/en/mary-beale

13-Properzia de' Rossi (sculptor, 1490-1530)

https://womennart.com/2017/04/26/first-female-sculptor-of-europe/ 

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-woman-renaissances-famous-record-art-history 

14-Anna Golubkina (sculptor, 1864-1927)

https://soviet-art.ru/soviet-russian-sculptor-anna-golubkina-1864-1927/

15-Annie Swynnerton (painter, 1844-1933)

https://annielouisaswynnerton.com/

https://vimeo.com/256758292 

16-Lee Miller (photographer, 1907-1977)

http://www.artnet.com/artists/lee-miller/

https://www.dazeddigital.com/art-photography/article/49377/1/lee-miller-the-war-photographer-who-was-more-than-surrealist-muse 

17-Guerrilla Girls (feminist artist group, 1985-present)

https://www.guerrillagirls.com/

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/09/arts/design/the-guerrilla-girls-after-3-decades-still-rattling-art-world-cages.html

18-Amrita Sher-Gi (painter, 1913-1941)

https://artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/amrita-sher-gil-artworks-from-the-collection-of-national-gallery-of-modern-art-national-gallery-of-modern-art-ngma-new-delhi/QRaQm24R?hl=en

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/20/obituaries/amrita-shergil-dead.html 

19-Ike Gyokuran (painter, 1727-1784)

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/48994

https://artdaily.cc/news/20080/Ike-Taiga-and-Tokuyama-Gyokuran 

20-Letícia Parente (visual artist and chemist ,1930-1991)

https://www.artsy.net/artist/leticia-parente/works-for-sale

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-1010/latin-america-modernism/brazilian-modernism/a/leticia-parente-marca-registrada 

21-Alice Guy-Blaché (filmmaker, 1873-1968)

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-astonishing-and-multiple-achievements-of-alice-guy-blache/

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/alice-guy-blache-pioneering-female-filmmaker-1629004 

22-Camille Claudel (sculptor, 1864-1943)

https://mymodernmet.com/camille-claudel/ 

https://www.wikiart.org/en/camille-claudel 

23-Iaia of Cyzicus (painter, c.100 BC)

https://eretxa.wordpress.com/2020/05/30/saturdays-artist-series-five-ancient-greek-women-artists/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iaia 

24-Tamara de Lempicka (painter, 1898-1980)

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-tamara-de-lempickas-glamorous-portraits-transfix-contemporary-audiences 

http://www.artnet.com/artists/tamara-de-lempicka/

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2004/may/15/art 

25-Hannah Höch (collage artist, 1889-1978)

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/jan/09/hannah-hoch-art-punk-whitechapel 

http://www.artnet.com/artists/hannah-h%C3%B6ch/ 

https://youtu.be/f7gdqwtA3jM