List of 20th-century women artists

This is a partial list of 20th-century women artists, sorted alphabetically by decade of birth. These artists are known for creating artworks that are primarily visual in nature, in traditional media such as painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, ceramics as well as in more recently developed genres, such as installation art, performance art, conceptual art, digital art and video art.

The list covers artists born from 1870 through 1969. For later births see List of 21st-century women artists.


Before 1870

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Mary Cassatt Self-portrait, c. 1878, gouache on paper, 23 5/8 × 16 3/16 in., Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
 
Hilma af Klint, The Ten Largest nr 3, Youth, Group 4, 1907
 
Käthe Kollwitz, Woman with Dead Child, 1903 etching
 
Suzanne Valadon, The Bath, 1908, pastel. 60×49 cm., Museum of Grenoble, France
 
Lilla Cabot Perry, Self Portrait, 1892
 
Romaine Brooks, Miss Natalie Barney, "L'Amazone" (1920)

1870–1879

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Paula Modersohn-Becker, Self-Portrait, 1906
 
Gwen John, Vase of Flowers, n.d. (ca. 1910s)

1880–1889

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Marie Laurencin, 1913, Le Bal élégant, La Danse à la campagne
 
Sonia Delaunay, The last section of La prose du Transsibérien et de la Petite Jehanne de France, 1913
 
Georgia O'Keeffe, Blue and Green Music, 1921
 
Natalia Goncharova, Self-portrait, 1907

1890–1899

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Amedeo Modigliani, Portrait of Jeanne Hébuterne, 1918
 
Jeanne Hébuterne,Self portrait, 1916
 
Nazareth, ca 1925, by Palestinian photographer Karimeh Abbud

1900–1909

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Bernarda Bryson Shahn, Resettlement Administration poster, c. 1935–1937
 
Milena Pavlović-Barili, Hot Pink with Cool Grey, 1940
 
Andree Rexroth – Composition, ca. 1935-1943

1910–1919

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Louise Bourgeois, Maman, Bilbao, Spain

1920–1929

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1930–1939

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1940–1949

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1950–1959

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1960–1969

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The list ends with artists born in 1969. For later births see List of 21st-century women artists.

See also

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References

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