The Woman Gallery

Women in Art · 15th Century to the Present

A two-ink risograph print in warm terracotta and deep charcoal on off-white paper, showing a gallery interior with framed portraits arranged across softly lit walls, quiet and contemplative.

Welcome to The Woman Gallery

Highlighting the role of women in art — as artists and as subjects — from the 15th century through the present day.

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Tracey Emin's bed as a testament to confessional art
In 1998, a forty-year-old British artist walked into a gallery in London and presented the most intimate wreckage of her own life as an artwork. Sheets twisted…
Zaha Hadid's early paintings and the birth of her architectural vision
Before Zaha Hadid ever poured concrete or bent steel, she painted. The Iraqi-British architect who became the first woman to receive the Pritzker Prize treated…
A tribute to the quilted masterpieces of Elizabeth Catlett
The work of Elizabeth Catlett carries a gravity that resists easy classification, a quality that becomes especially vivid in her quilted compositions where…
Emily Carr's nocturnes and the wild heart of western Canada
Few twentieth-century painters understood the hush of a forest after dusk as deeply as Emily Carr. Working from her base in Victoria, on the southern tip of…
Berthe Morisot and the Art of Passing Time
Berthe Morisot made modern life feel wonderfully unstable. A hand reaches for a child, a breeze shifts a curtain, sunlight breaks across a garden, and the…
Clara Peeters And The Baroque Art Of Looking Closely
Clara Peeters transformed familiar objects into subjects of remarkable visual authority. A pewter plate, a cut lemon, a silver cup or a small group of fish…
Unpacking the Surrealist Landscapes of Leonora Carrington
Leonora Carrington built landscapes that feel older than history and stranger than dreams. Her paintings open into wooded thresholds, moonlit interiors,…
The Radical Softness of Lee Bontecou’s Sculptural Reliefs
Lee Bontecou’s wall-mounted reliefs can appear severe at first glance. Their torn canvas, welded steel, industrial belts and deep black openings suggest…
Mary Cassatt and the intimate world of motherhood
Mary Cassatt transformed scenes of childcare, domestic routine and female friendship into serious subjects for modern art. Her paintings of mothers and…
Marianne North, Botanical Vision, And The Victorian Gaze
Marianne North transformed plant painting into a record of movement, encounter and ambition. Her canvases carry the visual pleasure of botanical illustration,…