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Folk art. Spouse. Everett Lewis. Maud Kathleen Lewis ( née Dowley; March 7, 1903 – July 30, 1970) was a Canadian folk artist from Nova Scotia. [ 2] She lived most of her life in poverty in a small house in Marshalltown, Nova Scotia. She achieved national recognition in 1964 and 1965 for her cheerful paintings of landscapes, animals and ...
Venus of Willendorf, c. 25,000 BC, Austria. Pregnancy in art covers any artistic work that portrays pregnancy. In art, as in life, it is often unclear whether an actual state of pregnancy is intended to be shown. A common visual indication is the gesture of the woman placing a protective open hand on her abdomen.
Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón ( Spanish pronunciation: [ˈfɾiða ˈkalo]; 6 July 1907 – 13 July 1954 [1]) was a Mexican painter known for her many portraits, self-portraits, and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico. Inspired by the country's popular culture, she employed a naïve folk art style to explore questions ...
Mary Stevenson Cassatt ( / kəˈsæt /; May 22, 1844 – June 14, 1926) [1] was an American painter and printmaker. [2] She was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania (now part of Pittsburgh 's North Side), and lived much of her adult life in France, where she befriended Edgar Degas and exhibited with the Impressionists.
3/5 Laura Knight and Artemisia Gentileschi feature among a vast array of little-known female artists in this expansive survey at Tate Britain, but some of the work on display only underlines the ...
Dorothy Hope Smith was born in Hyattsville, Maryland to Lincoln B. and Mary L. Smith. She had 2 sisters, Edith and Clare, of which Dorothy was in the middle. In the early 1910s, Dorothy's family relocated to Chicago, where she spent her adolescence. [citation needed] Smith studied illustration at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago where ...
The Vulture and the Little Girl. The Vulture and the Little Girl, also known as The Struggling Girl, is a photograph by Kevin Carter which first appeared in The New York Times on 26 March 1993. It is a photograph of a frail famine-stricken boy, initially believed to be a girl, [ 1] who had collapsed in the foreground with a hooded vulture ...
Margaret D. H. Keane (born Peggy Doris Hawkins, September 15, 1927 – June 26, 2022) [ 1] was an American artist known for her paintings of subjects with big eyes. She mainly painted women, children, or animals in oil or mixed media. The work achieved commercial success through inexpensive reproductions on prints, plates, and cups.