Category Archives: She Changed the World

Marie Tharp

Marie Tharp Watercolor on 9″ x 12″ watercolor paper The latest addition to the She Changed the World series! Marie Tharp (1920-2006) actually changed how we understand the world. The daughter of a teacher and a geologist, Tharp became a … Continue reading →

Frida Kahlo

28 Jun ’17

Frida Kahlo Ink and watercolor on 9″ x 12″ watercolor paper. The latest addition to the She Changed the World collection! Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) is one of the most significant artists of the twentieth century. As a young woman she … Continue reading →

Chien-Shiung Wu

21 Jun ’17

Chien-Shiung Wu Ink and watercolor on 9″ x 12″ watercolor paper The latest addition to the She Changed the World collection! Chien-Shiung Wu (1912-1997) was so smart that I find it hard to write about her. She’s known as both … Continue reading →

Mary Shelley

14 Jun ’17

Mary Shelley Ink and watercolor on 9″ x 12″ watercolor paper The latest addition to the ‘She Changed the World’ Collection! Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) is best known as the author of the Gothic horror novel Frankenstein. Raised by her … Continue reading →

Georgia O'Keefe painting by Rob Schamberger

Georgia O’Keeffe

5 Apr ’17

Georgia O’Keeffe Ink and watercolor on 9″ x 12″ watercolor paper The latest addition to the ‘She Changed the World’ collection! Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986) is one of the most important artists of modern times and is recognized as the Mother … Continue reading →

Annie Jump Cannon

29 Mar ’17

Annie Jump Cannon Ink, watercolor and acrylic on 9″ x 12″ watercolor paper The latest addition to the ‘She Changed the World’ collection! Annie Jump Cannon (1863-1941), besides having one of the raddest names in human history, not only changed … Continue reading →

Barbara McClintock

22 Mar ’17

Barbara McClintock Ink and watercolor on 9″ x 12″ watercolor paper The latest addition to the ‘She Changed the World’ collection! Barbara McClintock (1902-1992) is one of the great minds in the history of the science of genetics. At a … Continue reading →

Hedy Lamarr

15 Mar ’17

Hedy Lamarr Ink and watercolor on 9″ x 12″ watercolor paper The latest addition to the ‘She Changed the World’ collection! Hedy Lamarr, born in 1914 as Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler in Vienna, Austria-Hungary is remembered as an actress but … Continue reading →

Valentina Tereshkova

8 Mar ’17

Valentina Tereshkova Ink, acrylic and watercolor on 9″ x 12″ watercolor paper The latest addition to the ‘She Changed the World’ collection! Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman in outer space, and was the first civilian to fly in space. … Continue reading →

Harriet Tubman

1 Mar ’17

Harriet Tubman Ink and watercolor on 9″ x 12″ watercolor paper The latest addition to the ‘She Changed the World’ Collection! Harriet Tubman (c. 1822-1913), born a slave as Araminta Ross in Maryland, is one of the most iconic and … Continue reading →

Rosa Parks

22 Feb ’17

Rosa Parks Ink and watercolor on 9″ x 12″ watercolor paper Rosa Parks (1913-2005) is one of the most influential figures of the 20th century. On December 1, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama she refused to obey a bus driver who … Continue reading →

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

15 Feb ’17

Jackie Joyner-Kersee Ink and watercolor on 9″ x 12″ watercolor paper The latest addition to the ‘She Changed the World’ collection! Jacqueline ‘Jackie’ Joyner-Kersee (born 1962) has been named by Sports Illustrated as the Greatest Female Athlete of All Time. … Continue reading →

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