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Leading the Way:a tribute to women of the

20th century

a triptych by

Mireille Miller

Website: http://www.mireillemiller.com

Introduction to this portfolio

I am looking for prominent venues, internationally, to display my 18ft triptych so thatLeading the Way: A Tribute to Women of the 20th Century may fulfill its mission.

Leading the Way: A Tribute to Women of the 20th Century was conceived as ahomage to women and to instruct, inspire and bring greater awareness of the vital rolewomen play worldwide on behalf of humanity.

Planning and research for the painting began in 1999. The triptych was exhibited atthe United Nations* in New York and in Geneva as a work in progress. It wascompleted in 2008.

*On the occasion of the 50th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women, theUnited Nations Division for the Advancement of Women selected Leading the Way:A Tribute to Women of the 20th Century for an exhibition commemorating the eventfrom February 27 to March 11th, 2006 at UN Headquarters.

*In July 2006, the Division for the Advancement of Women invited me to take theexhibition of Leading the Way: A Tribute to Women of the 20th Century to theUnited Nations at Geneva’s Palais des Nations on the occasion of the 60th anniversaryof the Commission on the Status of Women.

Contents of portfolio

Project Description

Image of First Panel – (1900-1939)

Who’s Who in the First Panel

Image of Second Panel – (1940-1969)

Who’s Who in the Second Panel

Image of Third Panel – (1970 – 2005)

Who’s Who in the Third Panel

Images of Portrait Studies

Letters from the United Nations

Profile on the artist – An article

Biography

Acknowledgements - Contact information

Studio: 235 Mulberry Street - # 3 - New York . NY 10012

Tel: 1 212 334 4784 Email: [email protected]

Project description

The Story of the World is perceived largely through the triumphs and defeats of men.Leading the Way: A Tribute to Women of the 20th Century seeks to contribute afresh perspective on our collective History and Humanity.

Transcending all barriers – geographic, political, social, cultural, racial, and economic –this project was conceived as a homage to women and to bring greater awareness oftheir fundamental contributions to human development worldwide.

The main objective was to compose a group portrait of historical significance. Thewomen who are depicted in the painting come from all around the globe and fromdifferent fields of pursuit and professions. There they reside side-by-side with theirpeers to produce a powerful visual record of the extraordinary accomplishments ofwomen during the last hundred years. Because they have never before been visualizedtogether, this project brings a unique amalgam of genius, courage, and talent that haspoured forth from 20th Century females into artistic form.

Leading the Way: A Tribute to Women of the 20th Century bears witness to thepioneering strength, the spirit, and the leadership of women all over the world, and is atestimony to their selfless dedication to their respective callings for the betterment ofthe world.



Leading the Way: A Tribute to Women of the 20th Century

FIRST PANEL

1900 - 1939

Medium: Oil on Belgian Linen

Dimensions: 5 1/2’ x 6’



First Panel

1900 - 1939Oil on Linen

5 1/2’ x 6’

1. Coco Chanel

2. Margaret Mead

3. Daisy Mae Bates

4. Gertrude Stein

5. Wanda Landowska

6. Käthe Kollwitz

7. Colette

8. Christabel Pankhurst

9. Emmeline Pankhurst

10. Carrie Chapman Catt

11. Margaret Sanger

12. Eleanor Roosevelt

13. Queen Elizabeth, the

Queen Mother

14. Mary Pickford

15. Alice Guy-Blaché

16. Shirley Temple

17. Virginia Woolf

18. Bessie Smith

19. Sonia Delaunay

20. Rosa Luxemburg

21. Rosa Manus

22. Rosika Schwimmer

23. Jane Addams

24. Mary McLeod Bethune

25. Marie Curie

26. Isadora Duncan

Continued next slide

Who’s who in the paintingFirst panel 1900 - 1939

27. Alexandra Kollontai

28. Dolores Ibárruri

Gómez (La

Pasionaria)

29. Evangeline Booth

30. Alice Paul

31. Marian Anderson

32. Helen Keller

33. Maria Montessori

34. Gertrude Bell

35. Eglantyne Jebb

36. Anna Akhmatova

37. Lilian Baylis

38. Jeannette Rankin

39. Suzanne Lenglen

40. Jo ka Jab rková

41. Annie Sullivan Macy

42. Sarah Bernhardt

43. Anna Pavlova

44. Nina Bang

45. Beryl Markham

46. Amelia Earhart

47. Emma Goldman

48. Malvina Hoffman

49. Josephine Baker

50. Constance Garnett

51. Ida Tarbell

52. Henrietta Swan Leavitt

Who’s who in the paintingFirst panel 1900 - 1939


SECOND PANEL

1940 - 1969





Second Panel


5 1/2’ x 6’

1. Billie Holiday

2. Mary Lou Williams

3. Martha Graham

4. Mary Douglas Leakey

5. Joy Adamson

6. Rachel Carson

7. Irène Joliot-Curie

8. Mahalia Jackson

9. Edith Piaf

10. Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin

11. Barbara McClintock

12. Rosalind Franklin

13. Rita Levi-Montalcini

14. Cheryl Crawford

15. Gabriela Mistral

16. Enid Blyton

17. Pearl S. Buck

18. Margaret Bourke-White

19. Lise Meitner

20. Alva Myrdal

21. Rosa Parks

22. Coretta Scott King

23. Dame Marie Rambert

24. Agrippina Vaganova

25. Agatha Christie

26. Katherine Dunham


Who’s who in the paintingSecond panel 1940 - 1969

27. Dame Myra Hess

28. Peggy Glanville-Hicks

29. Kamaldevi

Chattopadhyay

30. Nadine Gordimer

31. Simone de Beauvoir

32. Simone Weil

33. Hannah Arendt

34. Nadia Boulanger

35. Margot Fonteyn

36. Pearl Primus

37. Begum Ra'ana

Liaquat Ali Kahn

38. Indira Gandhi

39. Golda Meir

40. Nguy n Th Bình41. Kang Keqing

42. Takako Doi

43. Marguerite Yourcenar

44. Françoise Dolto

45. Ruth Crawford Seeger

46. Peggy Guggenheim

47. Grace Murray Hopper

48. Anne Frank

49. Rani Gaidinliu

50. Agnès Varda

51. Franca Rama

52. Larissa Latynina

53. Valentina Tereshkova

Who’s who in the paintingSecond panel 1940 - 1969


THIRD PANEL1970 - 2005





Third Panel


5 1/2’ x 6’

1. Jane Goodall

2. Dian Fossey

3. Josette Gannat

4. Audrey Hepburn

5. Wangari Maathai

6. Rigoberta Menchú Tum

7. Aung San Suu Kyi

8. Mamphela Ramphele

9. Jacquetta Hawkes

10. Wilma Pearl Mankiller

11. Rosalyn S. Yalow

12. Gloria Steinem

13. Bella Abzug

14. Betty Friedan

15. Shirin Ebadi

16. Dr. Hanan Ashrawi

17. Dolores Huerta

18. Arundhati Roy

19. Amy Goodman

20. Graça Machel

21. Jeanne Martin Cissé

22. Marian Wright Edelman

23. Joan Baez

24. Buffy Sainte-Marie

25. Germaine Greer

26. Shirley Chisholm

27. Nawal El Saadawi

28. Efua Dorkenoo

29. Phoolan Devi

30. Queen Noor al-Hussein

31. Liv Ullmann


Who’s who in the paintingThird panel 1970 - 2005

32. Vanessa Redgrave

33. Evelyn Glennie

34. Angela Davis

35. Maya Angelou

36. Gisèle Halimi

37. Christiane

Amanpour

38. Katharine Graham

39. Kate Adie

40. Helen Caldicott

41. Petra Kelly

42. Oriana Fallaci

43. Elizabeth

Anscombe

44. Susan Sontag

45. Mother Teresa

46. Vigdís

Finnbogadóttir

47. Glenda Jackson

48. Jane Fonda

49. Alice Walker

50. Oprah Winfrey

51. Toni Morrison

52. Corazón

Cojoangco- Aquino

53. Martina Navratilova

54. Billie Jean King

55. Alice Miller

56. Simone Veil

57. Jacqueline Kennedy

Onassis

58. Marguerite Duras

59. Meryl Streep

60. Jane Campion

61. Caryl Churchill

62. Susan Sarandon

Who’s who in the paintingThird panel 1970 - 2005

Portrait StudiesPen & Ink Drawings - Hand-Colored Prints

Edith Wharton Marie Curie Simone de Beauvoir

Anna Akhmatova Colette Aung San Suu Kyi

Letter from the United Nations

Read Jeanette Caceres’ article in full at www.voices-unabridged.org

Born: 1957 - Mezieres-en-Drouais, France

Lives and works in New York, NY

Education:

1998 School of Visual Arts, NY -- Drawing

1994 New York University, NY -- Art History

1990/95 Robert Cenedella, Private studies in Painting

1989/95 Art Students League of NY, NY - Drawing, Painting

Solo Exhibitions:

2006 United Nations at Geneva, CH - Palais des Nations -

60th Anniversary of CSW

2006 United Nations Headquarters, NY - Division for the Advancement

of Women (DAW) for the 50th Session of the Commission on the

Status of Women (CSW)

Group Exhibitions:

97/2008 Pen & Brush, Inc., NY - Selected Oil Exhibitions

2007 CCCA - Pocket Book Factory, Hudson, NY - Art with Attitude

2005 Robert Miller Gallery, NY - Postcards from the Edge, Visual Aids

1994 Francesca Anderson Fine Art, Lexington, MA -

Selected Faculty & Students, Art Students League of NY

1992/94 Amsterdam’s Grand, SoHo, NY - Annual SoHo Artists Exhibitions

1990/95 Art Students League of NY, NY - Annual Class Shows

Commissions:

2004 Jean-Jacques Rachou - La Cote Basque, New York, NY

2000 Jean-Claude Baker Foundation - New York, NY

Chez Josephine - group portrait

1995 Glenn Dopf, Kopf, Nardelli & Dopf, New York, NY

Biography

Grants and Awards:

2007 The Marilyn and Bob Laurie Foundation, New York, NY (re-grant)

2006 UN Division for the Advancement of Women, UN HQ, NY (grant)

2006 Jean-Jacques Rachou / La Cote Basque, New York, NY (grant)

2006 Cabinet Gannat-Beziat, Orleans, France, (grant)


2005 Michel Roux, Teaneck, NJ (Grant)


2004 The Puffin Foundation, Teaneck, NJ (grant)

2004 The Marilyn and Bob Laurie Foundation, New York, NY (grant)

2003 CIC (Credit Industriel et Commercial), New York, NY (grant)

2000 Pen & Brush, Inc., New York, NY (Giralda Leighton Memorial Award)

2001 Pen & Brush, Inc., New York, NY (Forbes Inc. Award)

1992 The Art Students League of New York, NY (Merit Scholarship Award)

Membership Affiliations:

Pen & Brush, Inc., New York, NY

2002 Chair, Oil Division

1999 Member of the Board of Directors - Recording Secretary

The Art Students League of New York, NY

2001 Vice-President for Women, Board of Control

Chair, Exhibitions Committee

Chair, Constitution Committee

Chair, Executive Search Committee

2000 Member of Board of Control

Biographycontinued

Acknowledgments

This project was made possible by the generous funding from Crédit

Industriel & Commercial and Serge Bellanger, The United Nations

Division for the Advancement of Women, La Côte Basque and Jean-

Jacques Rachou, Liz and Bob Cenedella, The Marilyn and Bob Laurie

Foundation, The Puffin Foundation, Michel Roux, Cabinet Gannat-

Béziat, and Florence Gauthier.

A special note of thanks to Catherine Redmond, Jean-Claude Baker

and Patrick Gannat for their invaluable support from the inception of this

project.

Pen & Brush, Inc., a non-profit organization dedicated to women in the

arts, is the 501(c) 3 fiscal sponsor for Leading the Way: A Tribute to

Women of the 20th Century.

For all inquiries, please contact Mireille MillerStudio: 235 Mulberry Street - # 3 - New York . NY 10012


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