Frida Kahlo began to paint in 1925 while recovering from a streetcar accident that left her permanently disabled, the subsequent physical pain influencing her paintings.
Georgia O'Keeffe was an American abstract painter, known for the purity and lucidity of her still-life compositions, and her large paintings of desert flowers and scenery.
Children and naturalism are the hallmarks of Mary Cassatt's work, in which she utilized the idea that the background of a painting may be as significant as the foreground.