Women in Art
See also: Women Artists
The Power of Woe, The Power of Life
An online exhibition from the Bayly Art Museum featuring illustrations of women dating from around 1503 to the present by artists such as Albrecht Durer, Christine de Pizan, Hendrick Goltzius, and others.
Yongzheng's Screen of Twelve Beauties
An online exhibition of paintings depicting Qing court women in the early 1700s, from the Palace Museum, Beijing.
Women of our Time
An online exhibition of photographs that explores the way the lives of American women changed over the course of the twentieth century, a presentation from the National Portrait Gallery.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Women in Art
Women Reading
Motherhood
Women and The Sea: The Mariners' Museum
An online exhibition exploring the contributions that women have made in seafaring activities from the early days to modern times, includes a selection of works in the collections of The Mariners' Museum.
Before Victoria: Extraordinary Women of the British Romantic Era
An online overview of the New York Public Library exhibition that examines the lives of powerful women during the Romantic era, includes a small selection of images.
OI: Women
View highlights related to women in the collections of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, includes early bronze age statuettes, a middle bronze age figure of a Cypriot mother goddess, and other related objects.
Portraits of American Women
An online presentation from The Library Company of Philadelphia, includes portraits of well known women writers, and women in the government and religion.
Beauty, Virtue and Vice
An American Antiquarian Society exhibition featuring images of women in 19th century American prints.
A Woman's Work is Never Done
An American Antiquarian Society exhibition exploring the way women worked at home and outside of the home during the American Revolution through the Industrial Revolution.
The Making of a Homemaker
A Smithsonian Institution Libraries collection of late nineteenth century guidebooks to maintaining a home for upper and middle class American women.
Not Just a Housewife: The Changing Roles of Women in the West
An online exhibition from the National Cowboy Museum featuring biographies and photographs of thirteen women who stepped outside of the traditional female role in the early American West.
Loose Women in Tights: Images of Femininity in Early Burlesque Performance
An online exhibition of images from the Charles H. McCaghy Collection including photographs, promotional items, books, personal notes, and other materials dating from the mid-nineteenth century to the present.
Basement Beauties: Photographs by Mack Sennett
A California Museum of Photography exhibition featuring Sennet's bathing beauties, early 20th Century starlets posing in eccentric bathing suits.
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