Bennett and Schmidt are the creators of The Bennett Collection, a collection of figurative realist paintings by women artists, and the $50,000 Bennett Prize, the largest art award in the award ...

Installation view, “A Place for Me: Figurative Painting Now,” The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, 2022. Sophia Herbert writes the figurative art exhibit featuring queer, BIPOC and ...

Ten women from across the country who paint in the figurative realist style have been named finalists for the fourth iteration of The Bennett Prize.At $50,000, it is the largest-ever art award ...

The British painter has dedicated her career to depicting human flesh, especially that of women, with deep empathy.

Gallery Network How Have Women Been Represented in Modern Art? A New Exhibition Shines a Light on the Thorny Topic. Presented by Bode Galerie, "The Woman in Art – Muse and Creator" traces the ...

Bennett and Schmidt have collected figurative realist paintings by women artists since 2009, creating The Bennett Collection, and in 2018 they established The Bennett Prize — a $50,000 biennial ...

A closer look at three Native women artists in the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s collection Karen Canova Helen Cordero, "Storyteller with Twenty Figures," ca. 1985, fired clay with slip and ...

With its outsize bulbous breasts and hugely exaggerated genitalia, a statuette of a woman has pushed back the history of female figurative art by 5000 years, to at least 35,000 years ago.

Interdisciplinary artist Jamilla Okubo is celebrated for her striking figurative paintings that explore the nuances of her identity as an American, Kenyan, and Trinidadian woman. Incorporating ...

A powerful example of this critical curatorial work can be seen now through September 25, 2022, at the Modern Art Museum of Forth Worth (TX) where “Women Painting Women” presents a tour de ...