Comment on The $44m for Georgia O’Keeffe’s work shows how little women artists are valued

The $44m for Georgia O’Keeffe’s work shows how little women artists are valued

The record bid for her Jimson Weed/White Flower painting is far lower than for male ‘greats’. And it’s because of people like meThe art historian Linda Nochlin posed a very good question in 1971 and it still has not been answered. “Why,” she asked in an essay that helped to shape feminist art history, “have there been no great women artists?”She did not ask why women in art were not getting enough prizes, or being taken up by enough big art dealers, or otherwise getting ahead in the art world.

 

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