GREAT WOMEN ARTISTS

This group is for hand-made lenses which focus on providing information about great women artists of the past and present who are notable.

To be included:

* an artist must be NOTABLE and well known with work included in major museums and art galleries and

* the lens needs to be HAND-BUILT by somebody with a degree of expertise in finding information and art generally

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Great Women Artists - applications wanted

How to get your lens included in this group

Applications to join the group are encouraged - but please read the criteria for inclusion (in the last module at the bottom of the page).

I'm looking to include lenses from webmasters who can find information about famous artists under their own steam and like finding the sort of information which is not always easily gleaned from search engines which deliver 'popular' results.

'Notable' for the purposes of this group means recognised as prominent and noteworthy by the major art world databases. Lenses which focus predominantly on the provision of information about prominent artists and famous can be included - subject to moderation.

Criteria (see near bottom of page) will be refined as lens applications are reviewed. As a guide, this group will typically include artists similar to those already included.

Reasons why a lens might be excluded are also detailed in the criteria. Please note that this group is not for lenses which are used predominantly to market the artwork of individual contemporary artists who are not so well known - there are other Squidoo group for these artists.

In addition, squidwho lenses that predominantly feature automatic modules (Flickr; YouTube; etc) are very unlikely to be included.

Great British Women Artists

featured lens Margaret Mee - Resources for Botanical Art Lovers

Margaret Mee was both a botanical artist and a conservationist. In 1952, age 41 she left England to go and live in the Amazon where she studied and painted the plants and flowers of the Amazon rainforest. This site introduces Margaret Mee and will b...

featured lens Elizabeth Blackwell - Resources for Botanical Art Lovers

Elizabeth Blackwell was the first British woman to produce a herbal and the first woman to engrave as well as draw plants. She compiled and published her hand drawn, engraved and coloured "A Curious Herbal" in 1735 in order to raise funds to free her...

featured lens Dame Laura Knight - Resources for Art Lovers

Laura Knight (1877-1970) was the first woman artist to be made a Dame of the British Empire. She was an Impressionist Painter who was also renowned for her drawing and graphical art skills. She was the first woman to be honoured with a retrospective...

Great Women Artists of the Americas

featured lens Mary Cassatt - Resources for Art Lovers

This lens is about Mary Cassatt - the artist and Impressionist painter. It provides links to where you can: - find out more about Mary Cassatt's life - see images of Cassatt's paintings - either on-line or in museums and galleries around the world -...

featured lens Georgia O'Keeffe - Resources for Art Lovers

This lens is about Georgia O'Keefe (1887-1986) - her life and her artwork. It provides information about: - her life, her loves and her homes - where you can images of her art in museums and art galleries - online sites about her and her art; and - d...

Great European Women Artists

featured lens Maria Sibylla Merian - Resources for Botanical Art Lovers

Maria Sibylla Merian was a Naturalist and Botanical Illustrator and is rated as being one of the greatest ever botanical artists. This site will be of interest to all botanical artists and all those who enjoy botanical art and natural history. This...

Featured Lensmasters

Making A Mark

Katherine Tyrrell's blogging portfolio about: - Making a mark creating drawings with pastels, pencils and pen and ink - Art projects - Notable Artists - Developing art careers - Art blogs and blogging about art - Reviews of art books and exhibitions - Inf

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Criteria for inclusion in "Great Women Artists"

What's in and what's not

Applications to join the group are encouraged.

Lenses which focus predominantly on the provision of information about prominent artists can be included - subject to moderation. Criteria will be refined as lens applications are reviewed. Typically the lens will include artists similar to those already included.

This group focuses on providing information rather than selling and consequently your request to join the group may be rejected if one of the following is applicable:
1) its scope falls outside the scope of this group (see above)
2) the lens does not emphasise the provision of good quality information about artists covered by this group (ie the main intent or the majority of content is non-commercial links)
3) the lens is not yet well developed - reapply when it is. This includes lens which contain mainly commercially oriented links.
4) the lens is predominantly about selling books and/or posters and prints of work by the artists included - the emphasis of this group is on accessible information
5) the lens focuses mainly on marketing the work of a contemporary artist who is not yet recognised by the art world as a famous/prominent/notable/major artist. If I don't know an artist I use the major artist database sites to check status (this does not include Wikipedia). There are other groups on Squidoo for such artists - please consult the list of groups for Arts & Literature.
6) the lens belongs to a webmaster who has done little more than tick boxes which then deliver modules which are automatically generated. There is too little evidence of personal research and/or discrimination in the information and resources provided. In other words it could have been generated by a computer! This group will only feature lenses which show some evidence of assessment of available links and information.

Feedback will be provided to all lenses which fail to get admission for reasons other than as stated above.

In addition, if I'm not sure about whether your lens fits with others in the group, I'm likely to look at other lenses you have produced to see what they say about your interests and expertise.

Comments and feedback

Let me know what you think - but please do not spam

Please leave a comment about this group and/or a suggestion for how you think it could be improved eg an artist who needs a lens included

Please note:
* Anybody can comment BUT
* All comments are moderated before publication
* html is not included in comments. Spam is not published.
* All suggestions about the inclusion of websites relating to contemporary artists will be reviewed but will only be published if the website is added.
* Please do not ask me to rate your lens (see Squidoo FAQs)

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