1940s
The indexed biographies correspond to artists born between 1664 and 1974.
1883 — Austria-Hungary (Croatia) | 1964 — Yugoslavia (Croatia)
Nasta Rojc
1985 — United States | 1970 — Mexico
Rosa Rolanda (Rosemonde Cowan)
1923 — Poland | 2008 — Italy
Maria Papa Rostkowska
1894 — Sweden | 1970 — Norway
Hannah Ryggen
1898 — 1963 | United States
Kay Sage
1917 — Germany | 1943 — Poland
Charlotte Salomon
1911 — 2013 | Spain
Ángeles Santos Torroella
1924 — 1966 | Japan
Saori Akutagawa (Madokoro)
1885 — 1963 | United Kingdom
Helen Saunders
1892 — 1962 | United States
Augusta Savage
1908 — 1975 | Hungary
Erzsébet Schaár
1862 — 1946 | Finland
Helene Schjerfbeck
1922 — Germany | 2013 — Israel
Ruth Schloss
1884 — Ukraine | 1967 — France
Zinaida Serebriakova
1905 — 1999 | Japan
Setsuko Migishi
1913 — Hungary | 1941 — Pakistan
Amrita Sher-Gil
1892 — 1970 | Japan
Seien Shima
1875 — 1949 | Japan
