20th Century Women Artists

Leonora Carrington-1917-, in Lancashire, England. Exhibited with artists Rene Magritte, Salvador Dali, Max Ernst and Yves Tanguey at the International Surrealist Exhibition in London. She has written a many novels, essays, and poems.

The Temptation of St. Anthony, 1647, oil on fabric

Tamara De Lempicka- 1898-1980Work represents modernism and art deco. Erotic, organic, and mechanical Represents life in decadent Paris.

Tamara de LempickaThe Musician1929oil on canvas

Tamara de Lempicka Self -Portrait, 1925

Dorothea Tanning-1910, IllinoisLearned to paint by visiting art museums. She attended Knox College in Galesburg, studied art in Chicago. A commercial artist in New York Met a group of French surrealist painters that included Max Ernst, whom she married in 1946. Her Hotel du Pavot, an installation in cloth sculpture, is in the permanent collection of the Beaubourg Museum in Paris.

Birthday, 1942

Cover Design for the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo Souvenir Program1945Watercolor on board

Evening in Sedona, 1976, Oil on canvas

Interior with Sudden Joy, 1951, Oil on canvas

Natalia Sergeevna Goncharova- 1881-1961 Russian painter Theatrical designer. Studied in Moscow Met Mikhail Larionov, her lifetime companion, and major influence on her work. The highest price paid at this event was about $4.5 million “Nature Morte Aux Fruits”.

Frida Kahlo- Mexican (1911-1954) She surrealistically depicts death, female nudity, pain and suffering. She is often known primarily as Diego Rivera's wife

Kahlo, FridaSelf-Portrait in a Velvet Dress1926Oil on canvas

Kahlo, FridaPortrait of Diego Rivera1937Oil on wood

Kahlo, FridaWhat the Water Gave Me1938Oil on canvas

Kahlo, FridaSelf-Portrait with the Portrait of Doctor Farill1951Oil on Masonite

-Georgia O'Keeffe 1887, Sun Prairie, Wisconsin.Art Institute of Chicago (1905–1906) Art Students League, New York (1907–1908).1908 won the League's William Merritt Chase still-life prize for Dead Rabbit with Copper Pot. American Modernism, Emphasized the essential beauty of all of her subjects by magnifying shapes and simplifying details. She settled in New Mexico in 1949 and lived until her death at age of 98.

Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O’Keeffe, 1918 photograph

Georgia O’KeefePoppy, 1927

From the Lake, Early 1900’s

Faith Ringgold- African American artist Faith Ringgold has focused much of her work on quilts. She has also written a number of childrens books.

Echoes of Harlem 1980 Acrylic on canvas, dyed, painted and pieced fabric