Top ten female artists

1. Frida Kahlo (1907-1954)
2. Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010)
3. Paula Rego (1935-2022)
4. Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986)
5. Yayoi Kusama (b.1929)
6. Leonora Carrington (1917-2011)
7. Bridget Riley (b.1931)
8. Cindy Sherman (b.1954)
9. Barbara Kruger (b.1945)
10. Tracey Emin (b.1963)

Female artists – they must be doing something right; half of the above list lived to be almost 100 or are alive and approaching their centenary (see also: Dorothea Tanning, American surrealist painter, lived to 101 and Agnes Martin, American abstract painter, was 92 when she died).

UPDATE: American artist, Faith Ringgold, died on 13 April 2024, aged 93.