Visual Arts
| Name | Life | Comments | Diagnosis | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lila Abboud | (19?? - 19??) | mother of Lebanese-American fashion designer, Joseph Abboud; Joseph's sister also died due to breast cancer | |||
| Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon | (1863–1935) | London-born Canadian early 20th century fashion designer known as "Lucile"; sister to screenwriter Elinor Glyn; survivor of the sinking of The Titanic; died at age 71 | |||
| Miriam Engelberg | (1958–2006) | American graphic artist/writer/blogger; died on October 18, 2006 at age 48 | diagnosed in 2001 at age 43 | ||
| Kate Greenaway | (1846–1901) | British illustrator; died at age 55 | |||
| Trina Schart Hyman | (1939–2004) | American children's book illustrator; died at age 65 | |||
| Betsey Johnson | (1942–present) | American fashion designer | |||
| Paula Schlesinger Lang | (19?? - 19??) | mother of Austrian-American film director Fritz Lang; she died of complications from breast cancer | |||
| Shirley Ardell Mason | (1923–1998) | American artist, inspiration for the book and film Sybil; died at age 75 | |||
| Matuschka | (19?? - present) | aka Joanne Matuschka; American fine art photographer and breast cancer activist | diagnosed in 1991 | ||
| Jean Muir | (1928–1995) | English fashion designer; died at age 66 | , | ||
| Alma Reville | (1899–1982) | English-born American assistant film director, actress, and wife of film director Alfred Hitchcock; survived breast cancer; died of natural causes at age 82 | |||
| Hollis Sigler | (1948–2001) | American painter active in Chicago, Illinois whose life with breast cancer became the subject of her work; died at age 53 | Diagnosed in 1985 | ||
| Jo Spence | (1934–1992) | British photographer; died at age 58 | |||
| Glenda Stewart | (19?? - 1995) | wife of American artist Mark Stewart; died in 1995 | |||
| Hendrickje Stoffels | (19?? - 19??) | artist model and mistress of Dutch artist Rembrandt | |||
| Mildred Thompson | (1936–2003) | African American painter, sculptor and printmaker active in Germany, the United States and France; died at age 67 | |||
| Thelma Wood | (1901–1970) | American sculptor; died at age 69 | |||
| Hannah Wilke | (1940–1993) | American painter, sculptor, photographer; died at age 52 of lymphoma. Was notable for photographing her mother, Selma Butter, during mother's illness and death from breast cancer. |
Read more about this topic: List Of Breast Cancer Patients By Occupation
Famous quotes containing the words visual and/or arts:
“The visual is sorely undervalued in modern scholarship. Art history has attained only a fraction of the conceptual sophistication of literary criticism.... Drunk with self-love, criticism has hugely overestimated the centrality of language to western culture. It has failed to see the electrifying sign language of images.”
—Camille Paglia (b. 1947)
“The textile and needlework arts of the world, primarily because they have been the work of women have been especially written out of art history. It is a male idea that to be “high” and “fine” both women and art should be beautiful, but not useful or functional.”
—Patricia Mainardi (b. 1942)