Women Artists

Touchstones of the Twentieth Century: A History of Photography at the University of Notre Dame

The Snite Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame has placed on view a landmark exhibition to coincide with the publication of a two-volume catalogue documenting the history...

Deborah Butterfield

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Covered Server

The ceramic artist Margarete Heymann-Marks Löbenstein or Margarete Heymann-Marks or Margarete Heymann-Löbenstein or Grete Marks may be known by many different names around the...

To Be or Not to Be Free

Artist Faith Ringgold was born in 1930 in Harlem and began making art when she was very young. As a child, she was often sick, and making art helped her pass the time while...

..wind-deer and the honey-grass…

Pfaff’s work ranges across disciplines—from painting to printmaking to sculpture to installation—but is perhaps best described as painting in space. Manipulating materials...

Racial and Social Justice

All The Boys

Considered one of the most influential Contemporary American artists, Carrie Mae Weems is a photographer and video installation artist who examines family relationships, sexism,...

Joan of Arc Praying

Marie Christine Caroline Adélaïde Françoise Léopoldine d’Orléans was the third daughter of Louis Philippe I, King of France. The princess’s artistic talents were...

Spring

Natalia Goncharova was a major figure in multiple early 20th-century Russian Modern art movements. She was a controversial, unique, and well-known person in Moscow and Saint...

Tracery

This sculpture was created by Deborah Butterfield, an American artist known for her depictions of horses. Butterfield uses everyday, often discarded objects like sticks and metal...

Women Artists on View at the Raclin Murphy

In celebration of Women’s History Month in March, the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art has curated an online gallery of selected works by women artists in the museum. To receive the...

Raclin Murphy Museum of Art Acquires a Major Work By Sculptor Louise Nevelson

The Raclin Murphy Museum of Art announces the acquisition of Sky Sentinels, a 1976 work by the iconic sculptor Louise Nevelson. In heralding the gift, Joseph Antenucci Becherer,...