These Australian women modernist painters were overlooked, and forgotten. A century later, they are in the spotlight

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"When art historian Linda Nochlin famously asked “why have there been no great
women artists?” in 1971, her point wasn’t that women lacked talent. It was that
the art world had systematically excluded and erased them from history.

In the 50 years since, scholars and curators have worked to reclaim these
forgotten women artists. But change has been slow.

The Guerrilla Girls’ activism in the 1980s, the Countess Report’s damning
statistics on gender inequality in Australian galleries, and the National
Gallery of Australia’s recent Know My Name initiative show the fight for
recognition is ongoing.

Dangerously Modern: Australian Women Artists in Europe 1890–1940 marks an
exciting new chapter in this project. The new exhibition, from the Art Gallery
of South Australia and the Art Gallery of New South Wales, makes a
groundbreaking contribution to recovering the stories of overlooked women
artists."

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