Can YOU name five famous women artists?

Written by Toby A. Smith

Michaelangelo, Leonardo, Gustav Klimt, Jackson Pollock, John Singer Sargent, James Whistler, Pablo Picasso, Henry Matisse, Paul Gaugin, Andy Warhol, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Wassily Kandinsky, Vincent Van Gogh…..and on and on.

Now, how about famous women artists? Can you come up with just five?

There’s a reason it’s so much more difficult. And this podcast from NPR’s The Indicator has THE ANSWER!

By the way, here’s my answer: Marie Cassatt, Frida Kahlo, Marie Laurencin, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Lee Krasner.

Five O’Clock Tea, 1880 by Marie Cassatt Museum of Fine Arts Boston