A Room of One's Vision: Rivers of Becoming
This collection spotlights women whose visual language and spatial imagination redefined the art world. From Peggy Guggenheim’s radical 31 Women exhibit to Hilma af Klint’s mystic abstractions that predated Kandinsky, these works remind us that innovation often blooms at the margins. Elsie de Wolfe’s interiors turned domestic spaces into acts of aesthetic empowerment, while Faith Ringgold and the We Wanted a Revolution collective infused art with political fire. Through Frida Kahlo’s personal symbology and the vibrant defiance of Black radical women, this list honors visionaries who made their lives—and their art—into bold declarations of presence.
The 31 Women Collection (1943), Peggy Guggenheim (curator), Art of This Century Gallery, NY, NY
https://www.the31women.com/home
https://www.fundacionmapfre.org/en/blog/exhibition-31-women-peggy-guggenheim/
https://www.vogue.com/article/peggy-guggenheim-31-women-jenna-segal-exhibition
The Interior Designs of Elsie de Wolfe
https://www.interiorsicons.com/blog/elsie-de-wolfe
https://www.1stdibs.com/blogs/the-study/elsie-de-wolfe/
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/09/27/a-life-in-good-taste
https://www.gardnermuseum.org/blog/interior-decorator-elsie-de-wolfe
https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/dewolfe-article-012000
https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/elsie-de-wolfe-villa-trianon
http://youtube.com/watch?v=65mPa0PMXYE
If you like Wassily Kandinsky, you’ll love Hilma af Klint
https://artsandculture.google.com/story/if-you-like-wassily-kandinsky-you-39-ll-love-hilma-af-klint/LQVB08qnFDXqzw?hl=en
What Stands Behind the Flowers (2025), Hilma af Klint, Museum of Modern Art, NY, NY
https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/5779
https://hilmaafklint.se/exhibitions/
We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85 (2017), Brooklyn Museum
https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/we_wanted_a_revolution
Vincent Van Gogh Collection - Google Arts & Culture
https://artsandculture.google.com/entity/frida-kahlo/m015k04?hl=en
Frida Kahlo Collection - Google Arts & Culture
https://artsandculture.google.com/entity/frida-kahlo/m015k04?hl=en
Frida Kahlo and Arte Popular (2017), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
https://www.mfa.org/exhibitions/frida-kahlo-and-arte-popular
https://www.mfa.org/news/frida-kahlo-and-arte-popular
Faith Ringgold: American People (2022), New Museum
https://www.newmuseum.org/exhibition/faith-ringgold-american-people/
