In the early 1900s, there were not a lot of known female artists. In a dataset of 700 artists born between 1920 and 1935, only 95 were identified as female. I created an illustrated timeline that showcases the works of some of these female artists. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
As mentioned, the dataset used to collect the data for the timeline featured 700 artists from the Tate Museum’s database. In order to make a proper timeline, I had to be very selective. According to TimelineJS<\/a>, the website I used to make the timeline, having more than 20 slides can seem over-crowded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Taking that into consideration, I have to be very specific as to what I wanted to represent in the timeline. After taking out the male and non-gender-specified artists, I was left with 94 female artists. To shrink the size some more, I only considered female artists that had a birth and death year listed which brought the number down to around 35. Being nitpicky, I only chose artists that had at least a photo of one of their artworks on the Tate website. Finally, I settled on female artists who were identified as painters<\/strong> since there are various mediums in art. In the end, I had 15 artists who fit the specifications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Using a Google Spreadsheet and HTML, I created and published the timeline below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n