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Where are the female painters in the art history books?

December 11, 2022

There are far more men than women in art history books. We know the ‘Great Men’ like Michelangelo, Picasso, Vincent van Gogh, and so on. But where have the women with the great painting talent gone? Here, for example, you see the Dutch Judith Leyster in a self-portrait.  FOR MORE

 

Photo: Judy Chicago ‘The Dinner Party”  at the Brooklyn Museum

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