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Irving Penn, Louise Bourgeois, New York, 1992, Gelatin silver print, selenium toned, 10-7/16 x 10-3/8", The Morgan Library & Museum; Purchased as the gift of Richard L. Menschel and with the support of The Horace W. Goldsmith Fund for Americana and The Margaret T. Morris Fund; 2007.42, Copyright 1992 by Irving Penn
Barbara Hepworth (British, 1903 – 1975), carving Head, 1930
Some women out for a spot of palm walking...
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Lee Krasner - " I was not in a position to say I will not continue painting or I will continue painting...I am preoccupied with trying to know myself in order to communicate with others. Painting is not separate from life. It is one. It is like asking - do you want to live? My answer is yes- and I paint."
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Madeline Yale Wynne (1847-1918)Madeline Yale Wynne was a prominent and important force in the American Arts and Crafts movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. She was skilled in metalwork, enameling, painting, embroidery, woodwork, basketry, writing, and music and went on to found craft societies in Massachusetts and Chicago.
GEORGIA O’KEEFFE (with her rock collection) - John Loengard
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"Elaine Lustig Cohen (b. 1927) is the pioneering female graphic designer who incorporated the aesthetic vocabulary of European modernism into American graphic design, during the 1950s and 1960s. After training as a painter, she developed her design skills working with Alvin Lustig (whom she married in 1948). Following Lustig's premature death in 1955, she took control of the studio and between 1955 and 1961 produced a distinctive series of covers for publishing houses Meridan Books and New Directions.
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Louise Fili; www.louisefili.com. Some of the most beautiful package, logo, restaurant and book designs you'll ever see. Pure inspiration.
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Cherokee Basket Maker. Cherokee Indian Reservation. North Carolina
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Irena Sendler 1910-2008 A 98 year-old German woman named Irena Sendler recently died. During WWII, Irena worked in the Warsaw Ghetto as a plumbing/sewer specialist. Irena smuggled Jewish children out; infants in the bottom of the tool box she carried and older children in a burlap sack she carried in the back of her truck. She also had a dog in the back that she trained to bark when the Nazi soldiers let her in and out of the ghetto. The soldiers wanted nothing to do with the dog, and the barking covered the kids’ and infants’ noises. Irena managed to smuggle out and save 2500 children. She eventually was caught, and the Nazis broke both her legs, arms and beat her severely. Irena kept a record of the names of all the kids she smuggled out and kept them in a glass jar buried under a tree in her backyard. After the war, she tried to locate any parents that may have survived and reunited some of the families. Most had been killed. She helped those children get placement into foster family homes or adopted.Irena was up for the Nobel Peace Prize. She was not selected. Al Gore won- for a slide show on Global Warming.
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When she died on 22 December 1943, Beatrix Potter left fourteen farms and 4000 acres of land to the National Trust, together with her flocks of Herdwick sheep. The Trust now owns 91 hill farms, many of which have a mainly Herdwick landlord's flock with a total holding of about 25000 sheep. This was her gift to the nation, her own beloved countryside for all to enjoy. Beatrix was the first woman to be elected president-designate of the Herdwick Sheepbreeders' Association, which continues to flourish.
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Dorothea Lange (showing her using the ‘Graflex’) Image by Paul S Taylor 1934
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Lise Meitner, physicist known for her work in the field of radioactivity, November 7, 1878 in Vienna
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Scientist Rosalind Franklin made the first clear X-ray images of DNA’s structure. Her work was described as the most beautiful X-ray photographs ever taken. Franklin’s ‘Photo 51’ informed Crick and Watson of DNA’s double helix structure for which they were awarded a Nobel Prize. Franklin died of ovarian cancer in 1958, aged 37, her contribution to DNA’s discovery story unacknowledged.
by Mr. Haver
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Tove Jannson Finnish novelist, best remembered for her series of Moomin books – stories for children that involve a family of trolls who are white, round and furry in appearance, with large snouts that make them vaguely resemble hippopotamuses.
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Louise Nevelson hands at work, from the Smithsonian Archives of American Art
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