Painters
Muriel Rukeyser
In the cave with a long-ago flare
a woman stands, her arms up. Red twig, black twig, brown twig.
A wall of leaping darkness over her.
The men are out hunting in the early light
But here in this flicker, one or two men, painting
and a woman among them.
Great living animals grow on the stone walls,
their pelts, their eyes, their sex, their hearts,
and the cave-painters touch them with life, red, brown, black,
a woman among them, painting.
The National Museum of Women in the Arts, the only museum in the world dedicated exclusively to recognizing the contributions of women artists: http://www.nmwa.org/
Women Artista in History, a website to showcase the work of women artists down through the centuries: http://www.wendy.com/women/artists.html
Women Artists: Self Portraits & Representatios of Womanhood from the Medieval Period to the Present: http://www.csupomona.edu/~plin/women/womenart.html
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