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A work made of color woodblock print; double-page illustration cut from a book.

Courtesans of the Yadaya, from the book "Mirror of Beautiful Women of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bijin awase sugata kagami)," vol. 1, 1776

Katsukawa Shunsho

A chaotic but happy kitchen scene: A light-skinned woman in a pink dress at left bends to take a turkey out of the oven, while another at right forms a pie near a small girl playing with a kitten. Behind them, a woman selects dishware as yet another carries a basket of ingredients. A fifth woman in the back puts on a fancy hat and coat near a pair of babies reaching out from their twin high chair.

Thanksgiving, c. 1935

Doris Lee

A work made of silk, satin weave; embroidered with linen, silk, silk-wrapped-metal purl, and gilt-metal purl in bullion, raised and detached, knotted and twisted buttonhole, crossed, raised stem filling and satin stitches; couching, laid work, buttonhole picots, french knots, and embroidered pile; seed pearls and mica.

Needlework (Depicting the Four Seasons), c. 1660

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Opening Reception for Jan Spiney Gilchrist Exhibition at the Nicole Gallery, September 11, 1987

Kerry Coppin

A work made of steel etching in black on cream india paper, laid down on off-white card (chine collé).

"The Rights of Women" or the Effects of Female Enfranchisement from George Cruikshank's Steel Etchings to The Comic Almanacks: 1835-1853, 1853, printed c. 1880

George Cruikshank

A work made of oil on canvas.

The Presentation in the Temple, Date unknown

Stefano Pozzi

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Two Women at Convent Avenue Baptist Church, from the series "Harlem, U.S.A.", 1977, printed 2010

Dawoud Bey

Walking Beauty

Walking Beauty, Early/mid–18th century

Miyagawa Chôshun

A work made of oil on canvas.

Peasant Family at a Well, 1650/60

The Master of the Children's Caps

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Cloth-Strecher, from the series "Twelve Types of Women's Handicraft (Fujin tewaza juni ko)", c. 1798/99

Kitagawa Utamaro

A work made of gelatin silver print.

We Will Not Become What We Mean to You, 1983

Barbara Kruger

A work made of oil and silver paper on canvas.

Broken and Restored Multiplication, 1918–19

Suzanne Duchamp

A work made of gelatin silver print, from the portfolio "women are beautiful" (1981).

Untitled (Girl with Ringlets Looking Down Smiling), c. 1975

Garry Winogrand

Pieced quilt of eighty-five uniquely designed squares featuring geometric and floral motifs, bordered with triangles.

Friendship Quilt, 1842

Ella Maria Deacon

Miniature room featuring wide-plank hardwood floors, round hooked rugs, simple wooden furnishings, and a wood-burning stove. The window frames and door frames are painted green, while the walls are a light butter yellow.

A18: Shaker Living Room, c. 1800, c. 1940

Narcissa Niblack Thorne

A work made of color woodblock print; surimono.

Frontispiece to the illustrated album "Thirty-six Immortal Women Poets" ("Nishikizuri onna sanjurokkasen"), 1801

Katsushika Hokusai

A work made of etching in brown on cream wove paper.

Old Women, Bruges, 1906

Frank Brangwyn

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Matseleng Kgoaripe, Vosloorus, Johannesburg, from the series "Faces & Phases", 2011, printed 2014

Zanele Muholi

A work made of two-channel black-and-white video, sound (projection); 13 min. loop.

Rapture, 1999

Shirin Neshat

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Rodney Plogger at 6:01, from the series "Immediate Family", 1989

Sally Mann

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