Lee Krasner
Insomnia and aggressive painting
1908 – 1984
Leonor Fini
The brilliant bisexual cat-lady of surrealism
1907 – 1996
Leonora Carrington
"I'm not anyone's muse"
1917 – 2011
Liubov Popova
We shall remake the world
1889 – 1924
Loïs Mailou Jones
The joy of African color and design
1905 – 1998
Louisa Matthíasdóttir
“I start painting, and that’s about it”
1917 – 2000
Louise Moillon
Subtle, sultry peaches
1610 – 1696
Lucrina Fetti
1590 – 1673
Lygia Clark
Art as psychotherapy
1920 – 1988
Madeleine Lemaire
1845 – 1928
Madge Gill
An orphan talks to angels
1882 – 1961
Mainie Jellett
The woman who brought modern art to Ireland
1897 – 1944
Margaret Bourke-White
1904 – 1971
Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh
1864 – 1933
Margherita Caffi
1650 – 1710
Marguerite Gérard
1761 – 1837
María Blanchard
A crooked girl find expression in color
1881 – 1932
Maria Helena Vieira da Silva
1908 – 1992
María Luisa Pacheco
Uniquely Bolivian abstraction
1919 – 1982
Maria Martinez
1887 – 1980
Mária Medvecká
The unchanging world of Orava
1914 – 1987
Maria Sibylla Merian
A botanist gets a divorce and travels the world
1647 – 1717
Maria van Oosterwijck
All business
1630 – 1693
Marianne Loir
1715 – 1769
Marianne Stokes
1855 – 1927
Marianne von Werefkin
1860 – 1938
Marie Bashkirtseff
"To live so filled with ambition, and at the end, oblivion!"
1858 – 1884
Marie Bracquemond
An impressionist's legacy buried by abuse
1840 – 1916
Marie Laurencin
Cubist Feminist
1883 – 1956
Marie Raymond
1908 – 1988
Marie Spartali Stillman
1844 – 1927
Mary Beale
Mary brings home the bacon
1633 – 1699
Mary Edmonia Lewis
African-American Chippewa woman takes over sculpture
1844 – 1907
Méret Oppenheim
"X = an Orange Rabbit"
1913 – 1985
Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller
Delicate Sculptor of Horrors
1877 – 1968
Milena Pavlović-Barili
The unblinking gaze of fashion
1909 – 1945
Natalia Goncharova
Art-Punk in Futurist Moscow
1881 – 1962
Noguchi Shōhin
1847 – 1917
Olga Boznańska
1865 – 1940
Olga Rozanova
The intellectual mother of Abstract Expressionism
1886 – 1918
Orra White Hitchcock
Of Love and Mushrooms
1796 – 1863
Orsola Maddalena Caccia
1596 – 1676
Pan Yuliang
Powerful lines
1895 – 1977
Paula Modersohn-Becker
Why do Expressionists die young?
1876 – 1907
Plautilla Nelli
1524 – 1588
Rachel Ruysch
Paint flowers, make money
1664 – 1750
Remedios Varo
The unconscious mind and a horsehair brush
1908 – 1963
Romaine Brooks
Powerful women in shades of gray
1874 – 1970
Rosa Bonheur
Love animals, wear pants, live without compromise
1822 – 1899
Rosalba Carriera
Pastel portraits keep you looking young and fresh
1673 – 1757
