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Mary Colter: Innovative Architect and Designer

Mary Colter1869-1958Mary Elizabeth Jane Colter was an architect and designer, one of the very few female architects in her day. She was also the chief architectural designer and interior decorator for...

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Mildred Bryant Brooks: Etcher Extraordinaire

Mildred Bryant Brooks1901-1995Mildred Bryant Brooks, printmaker, teacher and lecturer, was born in Marysville, Missouri on July 21, 1901. Her father, J. Jay Brooks was president of Tri-State College...

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Juanita Judy Vitousek: Watercolorist of the Islands

 Born in Silverton, Oregon, Juanita Judy Vitousek (1892-1988) lived in California as a youngster and studied at the University of California. After graduation, she moved to Hawaiʻi from Healdsburg, in...

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Genevieve "Gene" Springston Lynch: One of The Seven

Genevieve Springston Lynchc. 1912The Seven was a coalition of Honolulu-based women artists who first exhibited together in 1929. Several of the group’s inaugural members — Juliette May Fraser,...

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Madge Tennent: Fueled the advent of Hawaiian Modernism

 Madge TennentHailed as "the most significant individual contributor to Hawaiian art in the 20th century" and "without question the greatest interpreter of the Hawaiian figure," Madge Tennent...

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Juliette May Fraser: Painter, Muralist, Printmaker of Hawaii

      The story of women artists in Hawai‘i begins well before and beyond The Seven’s two-year existence. As early as 1880, Helen Whitney Kelley and Helen Thomas Dranga began turning out beloved...

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Shirley Ximena Hopper Russell: Painter and Printmaker of Hawaii

Shirley Marie RussellUntitled (Hawaiian Hut nestled in lush valley with palm trees)ca 1938Oil on canvasDuring the early twentieth century, there was a group of artists known as The Seven, a coalition...

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Elizabeth W. Withington: Shadowcatcher

Elizabeth W. WithingtonPhotography is easily one of the most significant technological inventions in modern times and yet, there still exists a general impression that it is, and has always been,...

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Mary Ann Lehman: Etcher of Western Scenes

 Mary Ann LehmanQuiet Crow CampEtchingn.d.2x10 inchesMary Ann Lehman was an American Western artist born near Spokane, Washington in 1920. She was best known for her etchings of horses and Western...

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Dr. Viki found her Muse

Since I am a woman artist out west, I felt it's time for an update. This blog has been chugging along remarkably (sometimes with little help from me) since 2012! In the ensuing years, I wrote a 600...

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Gene Kloss: Painter and Printmaker of the American West

Alice Geneva (Gene) Glasier Kloss was born in Oakland, California and attended the local public schools. Determined to have a career in art, Kloss studied at the University of California, Berkeley, in...

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Augusta Savage: Sculptor, Instructor, Activist, Inspiration

In light of the incredibly challenging times in which we are living, the Arts sustain us. Artists interpret, create, and provide hope for a somber world that seeks light. Augusta Savage was a woman who...

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Sophie Marston Brannan: Artist Coast to Coast

Sophie Marston BrannanHouse Near Stream and BridgeEarly 20th CenturyOil on canvas8 x 10 inchesSophie Pike Marston Marston Brannan was an American artist born in Mountain View California in 1877, and...

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Henrietta S. Quincy: Painter, Musician and Botanist

Relatively few women artists of any importance were active in many regions of the West during the 1850s and 1860s. Travel was long and arduous and it was not safe, nor culturally acceptable, for a...

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Thelma Beatrice Johnson Streat: Fostered Intercultural Understanding

Thelma Johnson Streat1912-1959Thelma Johnson Streat was an African-American artist, dancer, and educator who gained renown during the 1940s. A multi-talented artist who worked in a variety of media,...

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Dora Tse-Pe: Traditional Tewa Potter

One of the artists I explored for my dissertation was potter Maria Martinez, a Tewa Native American Puebloan who lived at the San Ildefonso Pueblo in New Mexico. She, and husband Julian, resurrected...

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Pansy Cornelia Stockton: The Art of Assemblage

Pansy Stocktonat work in her studioThis woman's vision was unique! Pansy Stockton created three-dimensional art pieces using hundreds of varieties of items from nature such as bark, moss, grass, and...

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Ruth Harriet Louise: The First Female Photographer in Hollywood

Ruth Harriet LouiseSelf-portraitRuth Harriet Louise was an American professional photographer and the first female photographer active in Hollywood. When Ms. Louise joined Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, dubbed...

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Alice Brown Hamlin Chittenden: California Botanicals

To close out 2018, a year of change and upheaval for many of us, I've chosen a painter who created lovely portraits and landscapes, but who was best known for her spectacular collection of paintings...

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Doris Totten Chase: Experiemental Artist in Motion

Doris ChaseApril 1923-December 2008Doris Totten Chase was an American artist whose career spanned 55 years of innovation and experimentation, using a wide array of media that included painting,...

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