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The original & only WomensArt created/ curated by art historian and author PL Henderson Real art...real artists Images © to respective owners

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Monochrome photograph featuring a white woman riding a bicycle with feet on the handlebars moving fast, smiling

Monochrome photograph featuring a white woman riding a bicycle with feet on the handlebars moving fast, smiling

Cate Blanchett on a bike, 2004 by US photographer Annie Leibovitz #womensart

06.03.2026 06:21 👍 387 🔁 61 💬 4 📌 2
Small ceramic sculpture of a white figure sitting cross legged with a daffodil for a head against a white background

Small ceramic sculpture of a white figure sitting cross legged with a daffodil for a head against a white background

Carolyn Clayton, UK Ceramic artist known for her figurative sculptures #womensart #Spring #FridayFeeling

06.03.2026 05:16 👍 413 🔁 66 💬 4 📌 3
Photo looking down on a small square silver box with round enamel detail of a bird on top

Photo looking down on a small square silver box with round enamel detail of a bird on top

Enamel silver box,c.1914 by Elizabeth Copeland, a pioneering force in the American Arts and Crafts movement #WomensArt

06.03.2026 05:09 👍 314 🔁 31 💬 0 📌 3
Poster in green red and blue of a female face and flowing text

Poster in green red and blue of a female face and flowing text

Bonnie MacLean, US artist known for her 1960s and 70s classic posters using an iconic psychedelic art style to promote the concerts of rock bands and other well known performers #womensart

06.03.2026 05:06 👍 421 🔁 61 💬 0 📌 3
Monochrome photograph featuring a standing Black woman in astreet holding a bike wearing a jacket and short trousers

Monochrome photograph featuring a standing Black woman in astreet holding a bike wearing a jacket and short trousers

US, late 1800s, Kittie Knox was among a small group of African American women cyclists in Boston. Kittie broke taboos by wearing knickerbockers,which she designed herself #WomensHistoryMonth

06.03.2026 05:00 👍 435 🔁 83 💬 1 📌 6
Installation in a real location, image shows a yellow wall of a two storey building with a scupture of a white woman's face in one window and a hand in another

Installation in a real location, image shows a yellow wall of a two storey building with a scupture of a white woman's face in one window and a hand in another

Art installation "Alice" by Spanish artist Cristina Lucas, 2013 #womensart

05.03.2026 16:00 👍 284 🔁 40 💬 0 📌 0
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Nuns walking down New York's Fifth Avenue, circa 1960 by celebrated photographer Vivian Maier #womensar

05.03.2026 13:15 👍 256 🔁 37 💬 1 📌 2
Collage with a realistic looking green plant with yellow flower against a black background

Collage with a realistic looking green plant with yellow flower against a black background

Oenothera Biennis, Common Tree Primrose. 1781, collage by Mary Delany (1700-1788),known for her botanical flower collages or 'paper-mosaicks' #WomensArt

05.03.2026 06:07 👍 388 🔁 67 💬 0 📌 2
Brooch design with stylised female face in a oval form and three hanging teardrops with colourful inlay

Brooch design with stylised female face in a oval form and three hanging teardrops with colourful inlay

Design for a Art Nouveau style brooch, 1901 by Glasgow Shool artist Frances MacDonald #Womensart

05.03.2026 05:57 👍 637 🔁 89 💬 6 📌 1
Monochrome photograph featuring a group of standing Indian women in an outdoor area holding banners

Monochrome photograph featuring a group of standing Indian women in an outdoor area holding banners

The hand embroidered banners of the UK women's suffrage movement created for/by British Indian suffragettes, 1911. Physician Princess Sophia Alexandra Duleep Singh played a prominent role within the women's cause #WomensArt
#WomensHistoryMonth

05.03.2026 05:50 👍 455 🔁 99 💬 0 📌 4
Poster with stylised image of a crouching woman gardening with text which says 'Plant urban gardens'

Poster with stylised image of a crouching woman gardening with text which says 'Plant urban gardens'

Favianna Rodriguez, contemporary US poster designer and activist of Afro-Peruvian heritage, #womensart

05.03.2026 05:47 👍 275 🔁 52 💬 0 📌 1
Textile artwork featuring an image of a landscape with fields of purple flowers under a blue sky with fluffy white clouds

Textile artwork featuring an image of a landscape with fields of purple flowers under a blue sky with fluffy white clouds

Monika Kinner-Whalen, contemporary Canadian textile artist known for her thread paintings #WomensArt

04.03.2026 12:59 👍 432 🔁 92 💬 2 📌 1
Monochrome photograph featuring a standing Iranian woman in a hijab holding a portable radio and tape deck on her shoulder in an interior

Monochrome photograph featuring a standing Iranian woman in a hijab holding a portable radio and tape deck on her shoulder in an interior

Iranian artist Shadi Ghadirian, Untitled (from the Qajar series), 2002 #womensart

04.03.2026 12:55 👍 619 🔁 132 💬 1 📌 1
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04.03.2026 04:41 👍 85 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 0
Photo of a young white girl sitting on a chair facing forwards and smiling in an interior against a floral design background

Photo of a young white girl sitting on a chair facing forwards and smiling in an interior against a floral design background

Icelandic photographer Sigga Ella, series of portraits of people with Down's Syndrome, 'First and foremost I am' featuring 21 images, a number she chose as people with Down's Syndrome have an extra copy of chromosome 21 #WomensArt

04.03.2026 04:14 👍 761 🔁 99 💬 6 📌 3
Painting featuring stylised leaf like forms in turquoise green red and brown in a swirling pattern

Painting featuring stylised leaf like forms in turquoise green red and brown in a swirling pattern

'Watiya Tjuta' by contemporary Indigenous Australian artist Mitjili Napurrula #WomensArt

04.03.2026 04:00 👍 349 🔁 50 💬 0 📌 1
Embroidered textile banner featuring the name Boadicea in gold letters and a golden chariot wheel motif

Embroidered textile banner featuring the name Boadicea in gold letters and a golden chariot wheel motif

Suffrage banner commemorating Boadicea (or Boudica) the Britjsh warrior queen, designed in 1908 by Mary Lowndes #womensart

04.03.2026 03:55 👍 267 🔁 45 💬 2 📌 1
Painted image of a hare and white flowers in a golden frame

Painted image of a hare and white flowers in a golden frame

Liza Adamczewski (aka the Accidental Ecologist), contemporary fine artist living on a re-wilding farm in Wales who has created a series of 'Garden Icons' - inspired by local wildlife #WomensArt

04.03.2026 03:48 👍 382 🔁 63 💬 1 📌 3
Three paintings depicting white women workers in factories

Three paintings depicting white women workers in factories

Suffragette Sylvia Pankhurst who created several watercolours depicting women workers in cotton mills and potteries to highlight working women’s rights on pay and conditions #womensart #WomensHistoryMonth

04.03.2026 03:42 👍 393 🔁 79 💬 0 📌 1
White Poppy against a blue background

White Poppy against a blue background

'Poppy' c.1852 by Anna Atkins, UK pioneer in botany and photography whose photographs created by the cyanotype process were the first ever to be published #womensart #WomensHistoryMonth

03.03.2026 06:25 👍 666 🔁 123 💬 2 📌 5

Fantastic. Yes she created sculptures too, a truely great artist.

03.03.2026 06:15 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Semi-abstract art painting with forms and colours

Semi-abstract art painting with forms and colours

Suzanne Duchamp, French Dadaist painter and collagist, a younger sister of Marcel, who has only recently been recognised by art history #WomensHistoryMonth

03.03.2026 06:13 👍 451 🔁 61 💬 2 📌 2
Monochrome photograph featuring a white woman on a scooter in a street facing left dressed in a long black dress and hat

Monochrome photograph featuring a white woman on a scooter in a street facing left dressed in a long black dress and hat

In 1916, Florence Norman, a suffragette in London, used a motorised scooter known as a Autoped #WomensArt
Every month on Womensart is #WomensHistoryMonth 💙

03.03.2026 05:49 👍 798 🔁 164 💬 5 📌 12
Stylised painting of a white female figure in a dress with words

Stylised painting of a white female figure in a dress with words

Sonia Delaunay's 1920's 'robes poèmes' or poem dresses, interplay between words, visuals and textile design #womensart

03.03.2026 05:45 👍 250 🔁 40 💬 0 📌 0
Three black and white prints featuring Black women by different artists

Three black and white prints featuring Black women by different artists

Elizabeth Catlett (1915-2012) Margaret Taylor-Burroughs (1915[– 2010), Samella Lewis (1923 – 2022), African American women printmakers who influenced the world with their art #WomensHistoryMonth

03.03.2026 05:42 👍 416 🔁 83 💬 1 📌 2
Painting of a hare to the right looking up at a full moon in a golden sky

Painting of a hare to the right looking up at a full moon in a golden sky

Artwork by Jackie Morris, artist, illustrator, author #WomensArt #FullMoon #March

03.03.2026 05:30 👍 495 🔁 84 💬 3 📌 6
Purple cloth banner with gold fringe and text 'Lifting as we climb'

Purple cloth banner with gold fringe and text 'Lifting as we climb'

"Lifting as we climb"
Banner showing the motto of the US National Association of Colored Women, started in 1896, the most prominent organization formed during the African-American Women's Suffrage Movement #womensart

03.03.2026 05:20 👍 390 🔁 76 💬 2 📌 1
Photo of a doorway created with twigs in a lush green forest

Photo of a doorway created with twigs in a lush green forest

“Passage”, 2007 by German installation artist Cornelia Konrads #womensart #Spring

02.03.2026 06:49 👍 1182 🔁 204 💬 10 📌 16
Painted portrait of a sitting white woman in 17th century dress while in a darkened room

Painted portrait of a sitting white woman in 17th century dress while in a darkened room

Elisabetta Sirani (1638-1665), an Italian Baroque painter who was one of the first female artists to specialize in history painting. She opened an academy for women artists before her mysterious early death #womensart #WomensHistoryMonth

02.03.2026 06:45 👍 400 🔁 59 💬 0 📌 0
Poster style artwork with the word  'March' as a heading and images of 8 houses and a quote from Sylvia Plath at the bottom

Poster style artwork with the word 'March' as a heading and images of 8 houses and a quote from Sylvia Plath at the bottom

Contemporary US artist Grace Yencer #Womensart

02.03.2026 03:09 👍 407 🔁 77 💬 1 📌 5