Women Artists Educational Posters & Prints, pg 1/4
for the social studies, art and art history/appreciation classrooms, and home schoolers.

Louise Abbema
b. 10-30-1858; France
d. 1927

• Sarah Bernhardt posters

Helen Allingham -
b. 9-26-1848; England
d. 9-28-1926

• dance posters

Anne Anderson
b. 1874; Scotland
d. 1940s?

Illustrator, watercolorist and etcher, Anne Anderson's work falls into the Art Nouveau movement. Anderson, who collaborated with her artist husband Alan Wright, designed for books, fairy tales and greeting cards.

• Sleeping Beauty Illustration

Sofonisba Anguisciola -
b. c. 1532; Cremora, Italy
d. 1625

Marie Bashkirtseff
b. 11-11-1858; Ukraine
d. 10-31-1884; Paris (tuberculosis)

Marie Bashkirtseff, born to a wealthy Russian noble family, studied painting, wrote articles for Hubertine Auclert's French feminist newspaper, La Citoyenne. She is most noted today for her personal journals, published as "I am the Most Interesting Book of All: The Diary of Marie Bashkirtseff", describing, among other things, the struggles of women artists.

Vanessa Bell
b. 5-28-1879; London
d. 4-7-1961

Artist Vanessa Bell, a member of the Bloomsbury Group, was the sister of noted author Virginia Woolf.

• Mrs. Dalloway book cover
• To the Lighthouse book cover
• more reading in art posters

Rosa Bonheur
b. 3-16-1822; France
d. 5-25-1899

• more horse posters

Graciela Rodo Boulange
b. 1935, Bolivia

• Christianity posters
• more children posters

Margaret Bourke-White,
b. 6-14-1904; Bronx, NY
d. 8-27-1971

• more Gandhi posters

Marie Bracquemond,
b. 1841; France
d. 1916

Marie Bracquemond was a French Impressionist painter overshadowed, and pushed into the shadows, by her better known artist husband, Felix.

• more Impressionists posters

Jennie Augusta Brownscombe,
b. 1850; Pennsylvania
d. 1936

Brownscombe was a prolific artist of humble beginnings who has been called "the Norman Rockwell" of her generation. Perhaps her best known work is "The First Thanksgiving" - see this Op-Ed piece from the NY Times for an enlighting viewpoint and a color image here.

• food- fruit posters

Louise Breslau,
b. 12-6-1856; Germany
d. 5-12-1927; France

Louise Breslau decided to study art when such ambitions were not permitted in her bourgeois class. She eventually went on to become a regular contributor and medal winner at the annual Paris Salon, receiving numerous commissions from wealthy Parisians. Breslau was friends with Edgar Degas and Anatole France.

Julia Margaret Cameron (née Pattle)
b. 6-11-1815; Calcutta, India
d. 1-26-1879; Ceylon

Julia Cameron, noted for her portraits that were romantically slightly out of focus, was given her first camera by her daughter; within a year she was a member two photography societies. Her social standing put her in the unique position of being able to photograph notable neighbors and visitors during the time she lived in England. Cameron was also the great aunt of author Virginia Woolf.

• Charles Darwin photo
• Thomas Carlyle photograph

Mary Cassatt
b. 5-22-1844; Pennsylvania
d. 6-14-1926; France

• more Mary Cassatt posters

Marie-Anne Collot
b. 1748; Paris
d. 2-24-1821

• more women rulers posters

Maria Cosway,
b. 1760; Italy
d. 1838;

Maria Cosway, born to English parents in Florence, Italy, was an artist as well as a musician. She married Richard Cosway, a painter to the Court of the English royal family in 1779, who despite her artistic gifts and recognition of her talent, stifled her artistic pursuits. In Paris she met, and subsequently became involved with Thomas Jefferson. She went on to found schools for girls in Lyons, France and in Lodi.
References: Seeing Ourselves: Women's Self-Portraits by Frances Borzello, pp.100-101; Women, Art and Society, by Whitney Chadwick, p.149.