Women and Art - Picture Galleries

Women Artists - Self Portraits
An image gallery of paintings of women artists depicting themselves in self portraits.

Portrait of Thora Maria Borch
An image, painted by artist Wilhelm Marstrand, of a woman in the nineteenth century at a typical women's task.

Margaret Bourke-White Picture Gallery
Margaret Bourke-White pictures: photographs by Margaret Bourke-White and portraits of Margaret Bourke-White, 20th century photographer.

Mary Cassatt Picture Gallery
A gallery of pictures of works by Mary Cassatt, woman artist and part of the Impressionist school.

Dorothea Lange Photographs the Great Depression
Photographer Dorothea Lange chronicled the 20th century in her extraordinary images of ordinary people in ordinary situations. In this iconic image of the Great Depression, Dorothea Lange depicts a migrant farmworker in California in March, 1936. The image is known as Migrant Mother.

Lady Liberty
The Statue of Liberty stands in New York Harbor, a gift to the United States from the people of France. The figure represents the Roman goddess Libertas.

Edmonia Lewis Picture Gallery
Pictures of Edmonia Lewis, 19th century African American woman sculptor, and some of her work.

Virgin Mary Picture - Book of Hours, 1524
Image of Virgin Mary from a Book of Hours, 1524.

Sappho of Lesbos Picture Gallery
An image gallery showing how the ancient Greek poet, Sappho of Lesbos, has been depicted through the ages.

Elisabetta Sirani - Image Gallery
Pictures of Elisabetta Sirani paintings. Elisabetta Sirani was a Renaissance painter, one of few women to become well known and financially successful from their art.

Medieval Book Image of a Woman Teaching Geometry
In this 14th century illustration from a copy of Euclid's Elements, a woman is shown holding a compass and square, teaching geometry to a group of monks.