Women Artists Posters & Prints “D...-E...-F...-”
for the social studies, art and art history/appreciation classrooms and home schoolers.

Sonia Delaunay (née Terk)
b. 11-14-1885; Ukraine
d. 12-5-1979; Paris

Sonia Delaunay's modern design work of geometric abstraction was iintegrated into furniture, fabrics, wall coverings, and clothing. She and her husband Robert Delaunay were part of a group called Orphism, related to cubism, that moved to convey the existence of an infinitude of interrelated states of being (Simultanism) through more abstraction and bright colors. Einstein published his Special Theory of Relativity in 1905 - the scientific expression of the same idea.

Francoise Duparc
b. 10-15-1726; Murcia, Spain
d. 10-2-1778; Marseille, France

Francoise Duparc was the daughter of a Spanish mother and French father, Antoine, who was a sculptor. As an adult Duparc returned to France where she worked professionally and was elected to the Academy of Marseilles in 1777.

References: Women, Art and Society, by Whitney Chadwick, p.148; Women Artists: An Illustrated History by Nancy G. Heller, pp. 64, 66, 67.

Minnie Evans (née Kelley)
b. 12-12-1890; Pender Co., NC
d. 12-16-1987; Wilmington, NC

Minnie Evans, an African American folk artist, worked in colored pencils and crayon to depict scenes from the her private dream world.

• Painting Dreams: Minnie Evans, Visionary Artists
• more African American Artists

Lavinia Fontana
b. 8-24-1552; Bologna, Italy
d. 8-11-1624; Rome

Lavina Fontana, the daughter of the painter Prospero Fontana, who was also her teacher. As was common at the time children carried on the family business and Lavina was not an exception.

She married, had eleven children, with her husband acting as her painting assistant.