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Ipswich Park, (detail), 1919, tempera on paper by George Sheringham (1884–1937), photo credit: Nottingham City Museums

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The Riverside (Long Ago), © estate of Jack B. Yeats. All rights reserved, DACS 2019. Photo credit: National Museums Northern Ireland

The Riverside (Long Ago)
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Eighteen incredible Irish artists

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© the artist, photo credit: Harlow Art Trust

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From Hepworth to Frink: 12 female sculptors in Harlow

How women-made sculpture has taken over the Essex 'New Town'.

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Photo credit: Royal Shakespeare Company Collection

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Burn the witch! Older women in pop culture, from the Weird Sisters to 'Grace and Frankie'

How have attitudes toward elderly women changed in the past centuries?

Still Life of Fruit and Flowers, Photo credit: The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology

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    © the artist. Photo credit: Godalming Museum

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    Gertrude Jekyll

    1990s

  • Ahamad, Faruk, b.1967

    © the copyright holder. Photo credit: Gallery Oldham

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    Faruk Ahamad (b.1967)

  • Water Buffalo

    Photo credit: Preston Park Museum & Grounds

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    Water Buffalo

    19th C

  • Ten women who used pseudonyms... and one man

    Jane Austen, c.1810, pencil & watercolour by Cassandra Austen, Photo credit: National Portrait Gallery, London, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0

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  • Suspended Forms

    © estate of Terry Frost. All rights reserved, DACS 2019. Photo credit: Government Art Collection

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    Suspended Forms

    1967–1968

  • Riley, Bridget, b.1931

    © the artist. Photo credit: Tate

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    Bridget Riley (b.1931)

  • Harryhausen, Ray, 1920–2013

    © The Ray and Diana Harryhausen Foundation. Photo credit: The Ray and Diana Harryhausen Foundation

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    Ray Harryhausen (1920–2013)

  • Artemisia Gentileschi: brilliant Baroque icon

    Susanna and the Elders , c.1610, oil on canvas by Artemisia Gentileschi (1593–1653 or after), Photo credit: Schloss Weißenstein, Pommersfelden, Bavaria (source: Wikimedia Commons)

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