Wikipedia:WikiProject Women artists/Reliable sources

This is a list of reliable sources for women artists:

Major lists

 * ULAN - Union List of Artist Names
 * RKD - Rijksdienst voor Kunsthistorisch Documentatie (23% women)
 * CLARA database of the National Museum of Women in the Arts
 * Benezit Dictionary of Artists
 * A Checklist of Painters c1200-1994, often just called the "Witt checklist"
 * Michael Bryan's dictionary of painters and engravers, New York : first published (937 pages) in 1849 and expanded : Macmillan, 1903-05, 5 volumes
 * Heller, Jules and Nancy G, Heller, ed., North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary Garland Reference Library of the Humanities (Vol. 1219), Garland Publishing Company, New York & London, 1995, 612 pages

Smaller lists

 * List of women in the Heritage Floor
 * Armory Show
 * Public Catalogue Foundation, 37,000 names, many are women - see WP:Yours
 * Invisible Women
 * The Obstacle Race: The Fortunes of Women Painters and Their Work, by Germaine Greer, 1979
 * Great Women Masters of Art, by Jordi Vigue, Paperback – January 1, 2003
 * Danger! Women Artists at Work, by Debra N. Mancoff, 2012
 * English Female Artists, by Ellen Creathorne Clayton, 1876
 * Women painters of the world, from the time of Caterina Vigri, 1413-1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the present day, edited by Walter Shaw Sparrow, 1905
 * online catalogs of artists and museums at Archive.org
 * online collection databases of the List of most visited art museums in the world
 * Lorenz, Clare, Women in Architecture: a contemporary perspective, Rizzoli,  New York,  1990
 * Monro, Eleanor, Originals: American Women Artists Simon and Schuster, New York  1979
 * Rubinstein, Charlotte Streifer, American Women Artists, G.K. Hall & Co., Boston 1982
 * Rubenstein, Charlotte Streifer, American Women Sculptors, G.K. Hall & Co., Boston 1990
 * Tippett, Maria By a Lady: Celebrating Three Centuries of Art by Canadian Women, 	Viking Penguin, Harmondsworth, England, 1992
 * Weinman, Jeanne Madeline, The Fair Women: The Story of the Women’s Building, World’s Columbian Exposition Chicago  1893,  Academy Chicago  1981
 * Canadian Women Artists History Initiative, https://cwahi.concordia.ca/
 * Barlow, Margaret, Women Artists, Universe, New York, 2009