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

Marie Bashkirtseff
b. 11-11-1858; Ukraine
d. 10-31-1884; Paris (tuberculosis)

Marie Bashkirtseff, born to a wealthy Russian noble family, studied painting, wrote articles for Hubertine Auclert's French feminist newspaper, La Citoyenne. She is most noted today for her personal journals, published as “I am the Most Interesting Book of All: The Diary of Marie Bashkirtseff”, describing, among other things, the struggles of women artists.

Vanessa Bell
b. 5-28-1879; London, England
d. 4-7-1961

Artist Vanessa Bell, a member of the Bloomsbury Group, was the sister of noted author Virginia Woolf.

• Mrs. Dalloway book cover
• To the Lighthouse book cover
• more reading in art posters

Marie-Guilhelmine Benoist
b. 12-18-1768; Paris, France
d. 10-8-1826

Marie-Guillemine Benoist, the daughter of a government official, studied with Vigee-Lebrun and Jacques-Louis David. She painted in several genres - historical themes, portraiture, and issues of her day - Portrait of a Negress was inspired by the decree to abolish slavery.

References: Women Artists: An Illustrated History by Nancy G. Heller, pp. 63-64.

Saint Hildegard von Bingen,
b. 1098; Germany
d. 9-17-1179

Saint Hildegard von Bingen was the founder and abbess of Convent of Rupertsberg.

Hildegard von Bingen quotes:
• “We cannot live in a world that is not our own, in a world that is interpreted for us by others. An interpreted world is not a HOME. Part of the terror is to take back our own listening, to use our own voice, to see our own light.”
• “The earth which sustains humanity must not be injured, it must not be destroyed.”

• women authors posters
• Hildegard of Bingen: Scivias
• theology posters

Elizabeth Blackwell
b. 1700; Aberdeen, Scotland
d. 1758; buried at Chelsea

Elizabeth Blackwell (née Blachrie) is not the Elizabeth Blackwell who earned the first medical degree in the US. This Elizabeth Blackwell was among the first women to achieve fame as a botanical illustrator. As artist and engraver for the plates of A Curious Herbal, designed for physicians as a reference to medicinal plants, she bought her husband's release from debtors prison. (He was there because he squandered her dowry.)