The collection promotes art created by every type of woman, and reflects on an era when art made by women, for women, is more prominent than ever.
Under the image is a statistic, “Less than 5% of the artists in the Modern Art sections are women, but 85% of the nudes are female.”Maria Lassnig , Du Oder Ich , 2005, oil on canvas, 203 × 155 cm , private collection. Picture credit: © Maria Lassnig Foundation, Courtesy Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Stefan Altenburger Photography Zürich
Loïs Mailou Jones began her career as a textile designer in Boston in the 1920’s, but became involved in the fine arts after studying at Boston’s School of the Museum of Fine Arts and eventually, Howard University. In 1937, Jones left for Paris to study painting at The Académie Julian, in which she introduced African motifs into her work, and found France to be much more “racially tolerant” than America at the time.
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