Artist: Raul Colon

March Is Women’s History Month

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On International Women’s Day, artists’ agents Morgan Gaynin honor these women who have made lasting contributions to the world of art with these beautiful portraits. We also honor the Women of Ukraine who are fighting for their country and struggling to protect their families.

Above: portrait of  Jocelyn Bell Burnell by Susan Gal.   When Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovered the first pulsar fifty-one years ago, she revealed a new tool for solving many mysteries of the cosmos.

Raul Colon Ellen Ochoa is an American engineer and former director of the Johnson Space Center. She is the first Latina to go into space as a crew member aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery.
Kayla Reilly Betty White, comedy great.
Victo Ngai Unknown Muslim woman
Tonya Engel Nina Mae McKinney was one of the first Black film stars in the United States and was nicknamed "The Black Garbo" in Europe because of her striking beauty.
Gaby D'Alessandro Chien Shiung was a Chinese-American physicist who during the Manhattan Project and worked at Columbia University helping to develop the process for separating uranium metal into U-235 and U-238 isotopes by gaseous diffusion.
Elizabeth Rosen Emma Lazarus, one of the first successful and highly visible Jewish-American authors.