Penny Richards' photos with the keyword: woman

Acrylic paint, paper collage, sharpies, and inks, on canvasboard. Image of Danish philanthropist Bodil Neergaard (1867-1956) from the Bergen Public Library on Flickr Commons. www.flickr.com/photos/bergen_public_library/5725784125

Painted and collaged pins, featuring Florence Bascom (1862-1945), geologist. In 1893 Bascom receive a PhD from Johns Hopkins University--the first woman allowed to do so. (She was the second woman to earn a PhD in geology, after Mary Holmes at Michigan.) She was also the first woman hired by the US Geological Survey (in 1896), and a professor at Bryn Mawr. Image of Bascom from the Smithsonian uploads to Flickr Commons (see below).

Upcycled from a thrifted brown purse--paint, collage, sharpies, modpodge, krylon. The image is of neuroanatomist Elizabeth Caroline Crosby (1888-1983), first woman to achieve full professor status at the University of Michigan's medical school. It's from the Flickr Commons uploads posted by the Smithsonian Institution (see below for original). SOLD, 5/09.

My mother-in-law says this was probably a friend of her mother's--so it might be in Philadelphia, or a woman from Philadelphia, 1930s or 1940s.

Thrifted red Clarita Accessories handbag, upcycled with gesso, paint, sharpies, ink, and paper collage. Sarah Edith Wynne, aka "Eos Cymru," was a 19c. Welsh soprano who gained unusual international success. Photo is from the Flickr Commons uploads of the National Library of Wales.