Up until the 19 th century, women were barred from studying the nude model and certain prestigious institutions such as London’s Royal Academy of Art didn’t allow women to study at all. “In historical times, there was quite simply a lack of training opportunities, of options to gain visibility and thus also to gain a reputation,” says Katrin Hassler, art sociologist at the University of Lüneburg. To this day, only two works by women have made it into the top 100 auction sales of paintings, although about half of the top 25 have women as their subject. “As we all know, things as they are and as they have been, in the arts as in a hundred other areas, are stultifying, oppressive, and discouraging to all those, women among them, who did not have the good fortune to be born white, preferably middle class and, above all, male.” These lines were written by art historian Linda Nochlin in 1971 in her essay “Why have there been no great women artists?”, yet they seem to be just as relevant 50 years later. Even in the 21st century, women artists continue to be underrepresented in galleries, museums and at auctions – here’s why. In 2006, Nochlin received a Visionary Woman Award] from Moore College of Art & Design.The ten most expensive paintings in history were all painted by men. Complementing her career as an academic, she served on the Art Advisory Council of the International Foundation for Art Research. Besides feminist art history, she was best known for her work on Realism, specifically on Gustave Courbet. Her critical attention has been drawn to investigating the ways in which gender affects the creation and apprehension of art, as evidenced by her 1994 essay "Issues of Gender in Cassatt and Eakins". A prominent feminist art historian, she was best known as a proponent of the question "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?", in an essay of the same name published in 1971. In 2006, Nochlin received a Visionary Woman Award] from Linda Nochlin was an American art historian, university professor and writer. Linda Nochlin was an American art historian, university professor and writer.
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