Article: Exhibit places female artists in perspective.(ARTS)(ART)

Byline: Joanna Shaw-Eagle, THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Pioneer female artists Emily Carr, Georgia O'Keeffe and Frida Kahlo staked out new visual and visionary ground during the early years of the last century.

The Canadian, American and Mexican fought for recognition as women and artists. Revered and ridiculed, the three launched an arsenal of revolutionary, stylistic, personal and cultural weapons that eventually gained them fame and respect. The artists became the darlings of the women's movement of the 1960s and 1970s and exhibit after exhibit followed.

The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) yesterday opened the exhibit "Places of Their ...

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