May I suggest that the study of art history is somewhat biased toward
men...there are many female artists who are underrepresented in the art
history classes taught in our universities.  The fact that women like George
Eliot (since you brought writers into the circle of artists for this
discussion) could only find success writing under a man's name, or that
artists like those represented at the National Museum of Women in the Arts
are not well known seems to highlight that fact.  The women artists are out
there, do the male art historians want to concern themselves?  (Yes, that is
a generalization)